nomadros

Concur with the review. I use mine for pruning almond, olive, walnut, hazel, holm oak and pine. It has the grunt to get through really hard wood but is light enough to let you work one handed all day. The other thing it's great for is cutting your way through forest when doing an initial inspection, so you can keep your compass in one hand and it in the other. For big cuts, I use an Echo 490 ES with an 18" bar which I'll review in a bit.

Cheers Commando...now I'm getting someplace.

Hi...first post etc and need advice. I'm buying a second hand antonio carraro trg 9400 (2009 90hp reversible) for my land in Spain. The land is steep, terraced and heavily wooded (pines). It's also in a natural park (kind of like a national park) so my permits for forestry work so far have only allowed me to hand clear (chainsaws, fs550 and my yamaha grizzly to drag the trunks out). Now that phase is pretty much complete I'm moving onto agriculture, however the terrain remains the same which is why I'm posting in a forestry forum. I need the tractor to cut paths, grade rocky terraces etc (as well as day to day agri work) so I'm looking for an easily detachable rear bucket ( rear loader) of some description, as sticking a bucket on the front on the slopes I've got is just asking for a kicking. Been hunting the Internet but all the options I come across seem to be toys, so I thought I'd ask here for recommendations, manufacturers' names etc