[AT] : Ice Storm

[Herbert Metz]

Mike
Your post reminded me of the Darwin winners (that I have not seen posted
the past couple years). 
Maybe I should not say this, but some were sorta, whatever?
Herb


> [Original Message]
> From: Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 12/15/2007 7:39:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] :  Ice Storm
>
> Our town's one man road department uses a gas powered one along some of 
> the roads these days - he had no choice after I told him that he could 
> no longer stand in the loader bucket with a pair of loppers while a part 
> time laborer drove the tractor. He says that the new saw (a Stihl) works 
> very well. I like the idea of using my electric pole saw with a 
> generator. I was going to just get one of those $50 inverters and plug 
> it into one of the 12 volt tractors.
>
> Mike
>
> John Hall wrote:
> > Dad keeps wanting to get one of those to trim around the fields with. 
> > Amazing how many limbs seem to wander into the fields every year.
> > 
> > John Hall
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Larry D Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:53 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] : Ice Storm
> > 
> > 
> >> Just a thought for you, Al -- I bought one of those itty-bitty "chain
saws
> >> on a stick" from Home Depot or Lowe's or some place like that and I
throw
> >> that and the generator in the utility trailer, hook it to a tractor,
and 
> >> use
> >> it to trim the dead wood out of the oaks and pines around the house
and 
> >> over
> >> at the church.  It gives me a good excuse to keep the generator in 
> >> operating
> >> condition at least once or twice a year.  Between the reach of the
chain 
> >> saw
> >> and some additional height made possible by a step ladder in the
trailer,
> >> it's easy to reach up 20 feet or more with relative safety.
> >>
> >> Larry
> >
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