Hi Cause,
I also bought a 16" chainsaw last week when a tree blew down. It is electric. It cut up about maybe 600lbs of dry aspen wood in about 2 hours , and into 1' chunks some which were over 24" diameter.
It is light, fast, no fiddling with fuel/oil and maintenance. Cheaper too. When it is off, it is off, no idling so it is safe quickly. It plugs in so I do not get obsoleted about batteries, nor does it "sag" in power. I plug it in using a 10gauge 25' extension cord. The saw has essentially the full 12-14 amps so well over 2HP peak. People underestimate electric, or use thin long extension cords which lose power. OR they use battery ones and maybe have issues there. Society has forgotten virtues of plug in the wall things. And I will only use the saw for pruning my pines. And FYI if you prune a live tree, use vegetable oil, not petroleum, it can harm the tree. You can use heavy vegetable oil like corn. This is also environmentally safe so pets can be where the wood was cut. Wanda ate some shavings... dang dog.
Anyway...
Last thing I bought was elastic cord, thin open cell foam sheet, and some wispy faux fur. I am making a dead-cat/blimp microphone . It is a microphone capsule held in a springy mount cage thing, covered by either faux fur or thin foam to keep out the wind noise The springy mount is to remove most of the noise caused by shaking/hitting it. I may use this thing in a more furry device coming up. Interested?
The faux fur was not ideal, and I really want a fur with rather open backing, thin light weight backing at that, with 1 to 1.5" long fur that is NOT dense. This would mean... cheap-ish stuff... I will try again. At the store they had a pillow that had some of this type of fur on it, and it was probably better for my application.
Why not buy this thing premade?
Glad you asked.
They cost over $200 in some cases, and all are too large for what I have in mind.
Now how can i bend some hard plastic into a parabolic dog-ear shape???