Timbermcpherson

Car air bag unit, 12v battery and switch and a little imagination can do wonders

I have a year out of one 360 and 6 months out of another, both have run flawlessly. Great saws!

Rent a skidsteer for a day or two, wont cost that much but better to find out if its going to work before sinking real money into one.

And T bar or joystick controls are miles better than the stupid twin lever that bobcats and many others are lumbered with

Sooner you break out the 3120 or 88's, the sooner the jobs done. we run the big bars on our 88's but mostly use 2 3120's for "regular" cutting, one with a 28 and the other with a 42.

Feels like going backwards picking up the 66 after a big saw once the trees over 20 inches

But the greatest thing you can fit to a big saw is a D starter handle (stihl sell them for there rescue saws), makes them much easier to start.

I have a couple dozen husky saws, some trimmers to, none of them have "lost" there ID plate.

I find bridesmaids easier to climb after a wedding

a couple 80cc backpack blowers pb655's I think, must be 6 years running without fault, had 4 power pruners over the years, hedge trimmer, and had a bunch of cs3400's over the years, had a few 350t and 360t's and 3 260t's. currently running there new top handle (355t?) and 260t's.

the go well. compatible with the stihls and huskys which I have dozens of.

Fab up some dollys and rent a excavator. Jack up chipper, slide in dollys and tow it out using the exavator.

isnt the 170 the same power unit as the 190t?

I have a stumpmaster stumpgrinder, its what the alpine magnums design was "developed" from.

Its a great grinder, we do some pretty stupidly positioned stumps with it.

One thing thats great about it is that the cutting wheel is held on by one big nut and can be taken off and replaced with another cutting wheel in about 30 seconds. So we carry 2 wheels on jobs, so if one gets blunted on something its easy to change over to the other.

Disadvantage is the teeth are not great. I have Greenteeth on 2 of my other grinders and would like to put greenteeth on the stumpmaster.

The standard wheel is 240mm in diameter and 8mm thick. from tooth tip to tooth tip the cutting diameter is 360mm.

The standard greenteeth holders are just to heavy I think, so am trying to work out another way of either making a whole new wheel or mounting the greenteeth to the existing set up.

Any ideas?

Great grinder, stable and with the the big wheels able to get up steps and across ground other grinder wont.

I was sad to see wales and scotland end there RWC when they had been doing so well.

I want chipper lego!

Have an 40hp engine unit thats designed to hook up like a PTO

Have a chipper that can either be mated to the engine or to a tractor PTO

Have a turntable trailer mount for the chipper

Have a stump grinder unit that can either be mated to the engine or to a tractor PTO

Have a tracked unit that can have either the chipper or stumpgrinder fitted to it

So you have a trailered chipper, pto chipper, tracked chipper, tracked stump grinder and pto stumper if needed.

And if you need one any unit more full time you only have to buy extra modules.

18 on a 66 is great fun, like a 24 on a 3120

Love tirfors, I have a couple of 3200kgs, couple 1600kg's and an 800kg.

Done some dumb stuff with them. And had a few victories

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So now everyone knows how VW has cheated to get around emission laws.

After so many have talked about how the first ms201's were pants to run but the newer ones are so much better. And that the 201 was made to be a cleaner replacement to the ms200.

I asked a dealer about it, he said that the first one was to pass the emissions tests, and that once the saws had got the tick from the emissions people, the saws could be "improved"

Is this what stihl have done? Are they now selling technically uncompliant saws?

i asked the same not long ago, david cropper was good enough to offer some insight

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/87414-post-your-stump-grinding-photos-20.html

Felling a really big stick exactly how you planned and sweated over since you quoted it

Owwwww, hope you heal quick mate! Thanks for the reminder to be more careful, the finger you save may not be your own!

I bought a Terra saw blade a couple of years ago for working against walls and for chopping roots with a lot of stone around. They are ok, just turn round the blade when it runs out of cutting edge, they are "self sharpening" which appears to work. if you don't clear enough muck from the work area then the blade does tend to drag it into the guard. I went through a couple of belts like that. if you hit a bit of metal such as nails then the blade does cope well. I have cut stumps growing out of walls, after I have reached the safe limit with the stump grinder, and trimmed it back, not quite flush with the wall but enough to tidy it up before drilling and poisoning it.

Awesome! thanks for the info!

This guy went into the mountains alone in 1968, filmed building his cabin from scratch, awesome to watch

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His cabin is still there

I have a stumpmaster grinder, will set up some scaffolding and will see how good I am with it grinding along the gap. Might frame either side of it so the grinder is guided to work without hitting the concrete. Then maybe some bar and axe time, will see.

Im looking at making another wheel for the grinder that runs greenteeth in line with the wheel so a very narrow cut.

Was asking how good those terrasaw blades are, as my grinder have one fitted, but no replys yet

Wheres the fun in leaving them?

Someone screwed up royal in leaving that gap in contruction as the pohutakawa roots have penetrated through stuff underneath, causing leaks in the 2 stories below. They have to be ground down 100mm so gap can be capped off.

Not to derail but since this thread is full of nightmare jobs I thought I would ask how good are the carbide rescue blades, carbide cluster blades, carbide chunk blades, rippa blades, terrasaur blades (see who knew they could have so many names?)

I might need one for that wall job I think, if its going to work

Good longevity? Worth the investment?

One thing about having a reputation for doing the worst stumps is they just keep getting worse!

My record for bricks in a stump, it ended up being close to 30 all up! Tree must have grown up through and eveloped a pile of em. So long brand new set of greenteeth

That is such a great idea with the wooden wheels, well done!

My grinder needs to be a bit narrower for this one. Ledge is about 350mm wide with the stumps in a 100mm gap and 2m up a wall. and there are at least 7 of them to grind.

the pen gives an idea of scale, the electrical cable is the icing on the cake for this one!