Stump grinding 'incident'

[Ty Korrigan]

NOT an accident though!

This afternoon as I was grinding out a pop I had dismantled that morning with our HB20, I hit some metal embedded deep inside the stump.

Now I knew there was a wee bit of soft metal as my chain had just skimmed it when taking the stump down low before grinding.

However, I was totally mystified by the reaction of the grinder to a bit of 'metpost' or similar as normally it will chew through metal of this quality without a murmur.

The grinder suddenly leapt up and kicked back into my leg giving me a mild dead leg but didn't stall but vibrated madly, a sure sign a tooth has gone.

I backed off and took a look and sure, a tooth has flown off but also the pocket had ripped apart which was a first.

Anyway, I couldn't bend down too far because of my dead leg so I got my Oppo Seb who was grinding other stumps in the same garden to finish my stump with 4012 we have been loaned by ALM in Laval.

When I came to unload the HB20 my leg feeling better, I bent down to scrape off the mud and chips when I saw this, the reason for the exploding pocket and the mad leap the machine had taken.

Edited September 5, 2014 by Stephen Blair

[5 shires]

NOT an accident though!

This afternoon as I was grinding out a pop I had dismantled that morning with our HB20, I hit some metal embedded deep inside the stump.

Now I knew there was a wee bit of soft metal as my chain had just skimmed it when taking the stump down low before grinding.

However, I was totally mystified by the reaction of the grinder to a bit of 'metpost' or similar as normally it will chew through metal of this quality without a murmur.

The grinder suddenly leapt up and kicked back into my leg giving me a mild dead leg but didn't stall but vibrated madly, a sure sign a tooth has gone.

I backed off and took a look and sure, a tooth has flown off but also the pocket had ripped apart which was a first.

Anyway, I couldn't bend down too far because of my dead leg so I got my Oppo Seb who was grinding other stumps in the same garden to finish my stump with 4012 we have been loaned by ALM in Laval.

When I came to unload the HB20 my leg feeling better, I bent down to scrape off the mud and chips when I saw this, the reason for the exploding pocket and the mad leap the machine had taken.

 

Could have been a lot worse then a dead leg. Did you go and buy a lottery ticket.

Edited September 5, 2014 by Stephen Blair

[Mountain man]

Looks like a piece of cast iron, pretty tough stuff.

[martwizz]

Gave me a chuckle

Edited September 5, 2014 by Stephen Blair

[woody paul]

Looks like a piece of cast iron, pretty tough stuff.

 

Old estate railings post more like with that rail hole punch in it.

[Tom D]

I was holding a sheet of stirling board to protect some parked cars whilst a friend ground out some old privet stumps. The hedge had been on top of a retaining wall and there had once been wrought iron railings. The grinder kicked out a fleur de lis finial which would have topped the railings at some point, it went through the rubber mat and through the stirling board! Had it hit me in the head I'd have been dead for sure. It missed the cars luckily too.