<div dir="ltr"><div>They used one of those on a big 4 wheel logging vehicle to trim along a set of Duke Energy feed lines that run next to the railroad that cuts a tip off of the back corner of the farm. It makes a chainsaw and bucket truck look like trimming trees with a fingernail clipper. :-)</div><div>The actual power line right of way is not on the railroad right of way but along a long abandoned Interurban electric trolley right of way that is now part of the farm. That corner between the railroad and the Interurban grade is 1.4 acres. I use it for growing trees...<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:14 AM Stephen Offiler <<a href="mailto:soffiler@gmail.com">soffiler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What surprised me is that there's no "shoe" (for lack of a better term) and the whole circular blade is just whipping around in space. I would NOT want that thing anywhere near a power line!<div><br></div><div>SO</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:00 PM Cecil Bearden <<a href="mailto:crbearden@copper.net" target="_blank">crbearden@copper.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have watched one of these on a tracked machine work in a swamp. It <br>
had an 80ft reach and the operator could trim within 1 foot of power <br>
lines... It took guts, but this guy had ran that machine for over 5 <br>
years.... He could do about 2 miles a day..<br>
Cecil<br>
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> I was thinking more like a joystick controlled arm with a hydraulic powered chainsaw at the end<br>
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