[AT] Fw: Chainsaw Ramblings - now chainsaw pruning poles

[charlie hill]

I used to mow a field/pasture for an elderly lady.  I guess it was 10 acres 
or so.  Maybe a little bigger.  She didn't call me for about 3 years.  I 
wondered why but that's how it goes sometimes.  Anyway she called one day 
and explained that she had been injured and had been down in bed for a long 
time and that the pasture was out of control.  I went and tried to cut it 
but it had grown up in clusters of sweet gum trees with several trees 1" or 
larger in diameter all in a clump of 4 to 6 or so.  Plus there sere some 7 
foot or so high pine saplings and briars, brambles, etc.  I coudn't even 
pretend to cut it.  It would have torn my tractor to bits.  She had been 
paying $200 to mow it once a year and that was cheap considering the way it 
would grow up.  I told her the best thing I could do for her was to get the 
guy with the hydro ax.  He charged $100 an hour (probably 10 years ago) with 
a $500 minimum.  Well she agreed to that.   The guy came out, mowed all of 
the land right down to the dirt, cut all of the ditch banks and took down 
several trees along the ditch banks.  Some were as big as 1 foot in 
diameter.  He was gone in less than 4 hours.

I thought I wanted one of them until he told me the blades for that thing 
cost over $1000.00 each.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Fw: Chainsaw Ramblings - now chainsaw pruning poles


>> Don, I've hired some work done with a Hydro-Ax before.  It's fun to watch
>> those things work.......... as long as you stay about 100 yrds away from
>> it.
>> I was a good 50 yards out in front of the one I had hired and part of a
>> small tree about 1" x 2" x 2' went right by my head.
>
> I watched it from a distance and it would throw large chunks of wood quite 
> a
> distance.  Large rocks became small pieces of shrapnel.  It cleared places
> that had not been touched in 30 years.  Impressive machine.
>
> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
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