Clearing brambles with chainsaw

[Woodworks]

Any of you chaps use a Swingcut when they were sold on these shores?

 

I used to use one and it was savage beast on brambles, saplings in fact anything that got in it's way including the guard.

[AlexB]

The mulcher blade also mulches better with the proper guard. The material gathers and gets mulched.

 

 

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[Stereo]

Thanks all, got a mulcher blade off eBay and it's really damn good as promised. Really munches them up and makes light work of it.

 

Even my old man is impressed and that ain't easy.

[ratcatcher]

we have lots of brambles that need clearing in our woods, we bought two imported strimmers plus 40 tooth blades, they did an excellent job, even cutting through smaller hazel coppice

 

time lapse video from a helpers go pro

 

[doobin]

we have lots of brambles that need clearing in our woods, we bought two imported strimmers plus 40 tooth blades, they did an excellent job, even cutting through smaller hazel coppice

 

time lapse video from a helpers go pro

 

 

If that's a 5 second time lapse as said in the video description, then I see you spent twenty seconds trying to start the strimmer after it stalled

 

They also smoke like Winston Churchill!

[Ashes_Firewood]

I cleared a load of brambles with a Stihl petrol hedge trimmer. Only problem is I bent some of the teeth a bit on the bigger brambles but other than that worked well

 

 

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[ratcatcher]

If that's a 5 second time lapse as said in the video description, then I see you spent twenty seconds trying to start the strimmer after it stalled

 

They also smoke like Winston Churchill!

 

that one had shite in the carb and had to be dismantled when we returned home, we have the rest of our lives to work/play in our woods, who's worried about 20 seconds.

[doobin]

I cleared a load of brambles with a Stihl petrol hedge trimmer. Only problem is I bent some of the teeth a bit on the bigger brambles but other than that worked well

 

 

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I'm amazed you bent the teeth. We used a Stihl long reach hedgecutter on a rights of way contract for two months. Proper abuse- cutting back stuff up to 1" thick all day long and it took two months to break the drive sprocket! Well built kit.

 

That head is still going strong after I rebuilt it for £50 of parts.