jwmorris
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I am just not sure when i build one, do i want it like this, super simple, or do i want one with an angle gearbox, which i can rotate 90 degrees so i can also use it as a tree saw, cutting at ground level without dulling my chainsaw in the dirt... it would be really cool if i could just run over things backward, for fencerow cleanup.
I wasn’t either, the first one I built, years ago now, was another scrap build that was a side to side swinging one but manual. It works but is a lot of work or I am too old.
I built it when I was given this cutting head.
Used an old brigs 8hp engine that I threw and electric starter on, the go kart brake on the axle is so you can throw a lever on the tiller handle bars, locking that wheel, making it easy to swing the arch.
Battery up front for weight over the cutting head.
I will say this, that one takes up more floor space in a barn than this one will, if that’s important.
I wouldn’t be too worried about dirt but our place has lots of rocks and gravel. So I threw This trailer together so I can blow them away from the stumps, so I can get them below grade.
It’s work too but I imagine the teeth last much longer just hitting wood.
I’d trade for one of these though.
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