[AT] : Ice Storm

[Mike Sloane]

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
>