What to use on a knackered willow

[Steve Bullman]

The tungsten chain isn’t all it’s fracked up to be.  It dulls quicker than you’d think and can’t be sharpened on site very easily.  Better off just pricing a couple new chains into the job and allowing sharpening time 

[Stephen Blair]

Get as good stump grinder guy in and turn it into soil and dust.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Get as good stump grinder guy in and turn it into soil and dust.

Nice idea but the trunk is right next to the house and the side you would get to it from has no access for a decent grinder unfortunately

[Thesnarlingbadger]

The tungsten chain isn’t all it’s fracked up to be.  It dulls quicker than you’d think and can’t be sharpened on site very easily.  Better off just pricing a couple new chains into the job and allowing sharpening time 

Yeah the more I look in to it the more I realise you are right Steve. I have a handful of chains that I will make sure are ready for the job in a couple of weeks and just hope I don’t find any old relics within the stump. I’ll get pictures.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

clean all the crap off with a small axe then use a smaller bar if you want.... 18-20" and cut from both sides.

I don’t know if an axe would cut it (excuse the pun) but an airline might just give me a better chance.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Just buy 4 rototech chains and bin em when the jobs done.
Rototech chains are pretty cheap anyway

Not a bad shout. I’ll look into that idea

[Paul in the woods]

54 minutes ago, Thesnarlingbadger said:

 

I don’t know if an axe would cut it (excuse the pun) but an airline might just give me a better chance.

Pressure washer?

[Thesnarlingbadger]

15 hours ago, Paul in the woods said:

Pressure washer?

Might work or it might just make a very soggy muddy mess, I'll get pictures when I do it so you can see the horrible job I am up against.

[Stubby]

On 02/10/2018 at 08:25, Paul in the woods said:

Pressure washer?

Plus a stiff wire brush .

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Plus a stiff wire brush .

Could be the way to go. To be honest I think I’m going to just hit it with a pile of chains and hope the saw doesn’t have a hissy fit [emoji4]