Cheap top handles

[Haironyourchest]

Ok, if I understand correctly, you tried to work the blade side to side like a stump grinder. So you didn't try cutting channels or criss cross then?

Last time I checked I think they could be had for fifty pound in the UK, but that was a few years ago. Couldn't find anywhere in Ireland that stocked them. Must check again. Cheers!

[dumper]

One of the problems is you only get 100 MM of cut bit of a bugger if your root is 150mm diameter 

[doobin]

They were well over £100 when I bought one probably ten years back!

 

My once in a blue moon job was using it to grind down rotten timber posts set in a line as a (failed) retaining wall in some hard concrete. Nothing else would have done it. We broke out concrete and dug in for new steel supports for the oak sleepers we were replacing it with- just needed to get the bottom sleeper down to a sensible height, and couldn't get the micro in there.

 

We also used it for chopping roots out of the way when creating a footpath in what was almost pure flint shale.

 

Those are the only two jobs I can remember in over ten years. Paid for itself though.

Edited September 6, 2021 by doobin

[Peter 1955]

10 hours ago, dumper said:

One of the problems is you only get 100 MM of cut bit of a bugger if your root is 150mm diameter 

That's the same with any disc on a Stihlsaw, unless you get a 14" beast. I take your point that chainsaws have greater depth of cut, but in my experience, once the chain has gone round once in soil, you might be as quick chewing the root off! 

[peatff]

6 minutes ago, Peter 1955 said:

That's the same with any disc on a Stihlsaw, unless you get a 14" beast. I take your point that chainsaws have greater depth of cut, but in my experience, once the chain has gone round once in soil, you might be as quick chewing the root off! 

Just a thought,

Any chance of training beaver to do this ? Finally a reason for reintroducing them.

[dumper]

Yes been trying to pursuade premier to try a saw chain with carbide on it, but they think it wii wear out too quick carbide lasting far longer than the chain itself

[Peter 1955]

10 minutes ago, peatff said:

Just a thought,

Any chance of training beaver to do this ? Finally a reason for reintroducing them.

Environmentally friendly stump grinding? Could be a strong selling point. 

9 minutes ago, dumper said:

Yes been trying to pursuade premier to try a saw chain with carbide on it, but they think it wii wear out too quick carbide lasting far longer than the chain itself

I've had my hands on one of those emergency services chainsaws with the depth stop, that was a brute. Also seen those masonry chainsaws in use, and I'd have to say that although they're both undoubtedly awesome, running costs are high. A carbide blade that sharpens itself looks attractive compared to that.