Box blade or tooth bar

Harv · Dec 11, 2001

had this little mouse cornered and when it would squeek at the cat, the cat would jump!

/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I'd pay money to see that on video!!! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Tom_Trees · Dec 12, 2001

I never used to like cats and therefore never had any until we 'inherited' one a few years ago

Mike, I'll admit to having been a cat person all my life, so the following is my own biased view{smile]

You come home, beat, brains turned to mush by a mind-numbing day at work, and your faithfull dog greets you. "Oh Boy!! Master's home!! Sock!? Want to play sock, master!? How about ball?" And this coil-spring bouncing all about you.

Same scenario, with cat: you're beat and just want to drop into the chair with a cold one. You walk into the house and the cat uncurls and stretches in the most comfortable chair in the house. "Oh, good. You're home. Wheretheheck is supper?"

And I have to admit, I prefer the cat's attitude.

Tom

glennmac · Dec 12, 2001

what I want to do is clear about 4 acres of overgrown heavy brush - multiflora, vines, scrub trees

I dont own a boxblade, toothbar, cat or digital camera, but I accomplished precisely this objective with a 60" shredder. A boxblade would have been totally ineffective. This is not dirt work. A toothbar would have been somewhat better than a naked fel at pulling vines off trees and out of the ground. Are you talking about cutting trails through vegetation or smoothing trails through dirt. If the former, mow with a shredder. If the latter, backdrag your fel.

Alternatively, spend your money on a contractor to do the work, buy a digital camera, take pictures of the finished product, claim you did it all by dragging a bedspring with blue square link chains, and then offer to sell same to gadgetphiles.

MChalkley · Dec 12, 2001

Bad day at the office, glennmac? /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Actually, I kinda like the bedspring with the blue square link chains idea. I just can't bear the thought of cutting up my blue square link chain. If I had something that would cut it. Come to think of it, I don't have a bedspring I'm not using, either. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

MarkC

Harv · Dec 12, 2001

Glenn -

WHAT!!??? /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif You did all that clearing without a digital camera???

I just don't see how that is possible ... /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

HR_Mutt · Dec 12, 2001

glennmac
I'd like to see a pic of the "Ooozzma Verbotten"(sp??).
Tractor in it(optional)/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
My wife finally asked me what I was talking about when referring to a wet spot by that name/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif.
regards
Mutt

Egon · Dec 12, 2001

Glen:
I like the contractor idea. Before I had a little tractor there was time for for 3-4 day canoe trips and backcountry ski trips. My bicycle got at least 5000 kilometers a year on it. Now all I do is sit on the tractor haul rocks or trees, make trails in the woods and till up 6/7 acres to plant to deer feed. Somehow I got sidetracked.
Egon

fishman · Dec 12, 2001

Egon,

From your profile:

Lot Size & Conditions: 68 acres, woodland and 7 clear acres, lots of rock, site is a shale based drumlin sitting on shale bedrock with lots of granite detritous and 2500 ft. of lake frontage.

I don't speak geologese real well (drumlin, granite detritous /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif), but that sounds like a heck of a place to get sidetracked! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Egon · Dec 12, 2001

Side tracked:
The site is nice. If I had a scanner I'd show some pictures of the projects and the work the little 7100 has done. But maybe next year I'll have some of the projects completed and be able to ride the bike and even sit in a comfortable shade chair at lakes edge watching the fish jump and hydrate my tired old body. Most evenings I have a fire to cheer the soul and watch while the frogs and other nocturnal creatures put on their evening serenade.
The adjacent landowner has accused me of abusing the little Kubota after he saw me pushing over a 6in. poplar tree.
Egon

duanet · Dec 12, 2001

Alternatively, spend your money on a contractor to do the work, buy a digital camera, take pictures of the finished product, claim you did it all by dragging a bedspring with blue square link chains, and then offer to sell same to gadgetphiles. 

But I do have a digital camera! And if Harv looks at this post, the stuff is still out there (see attachment). Another problem, Glenn, is that I never could sell anything.

I'm beginning to favor starting with the tooth bar, especially since the ground will be frozen soon for the rest of the winter. I can start working on the vines and do some chain saw work. I expect the tooth bar might be helpful in loosening hard packed snow the town plows throw into my driveways, unless it gets in the way during heavy snow removal using the FEL.

When I brought up this subject originally I had no idea how far reaching this discussion would go. It looks like that's half the fun! /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif