Clear Thousands of Acres of Brush in No Time With This One Weird Trick

[70chevellegsp]

I use these
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XWNSWK5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 They cut like lasers and you definitely don't want to 'attack' the sapling, cut it like you would a saw and it cuts right thru. No good on rocks for sure. I have a Stihl trimmer I use line on and a Husky that I use the blade on. The blade is more for specific cutting, not just swinging the trimmer, like cutting saplings on a tree line or cutting saplings/trees in a field before brush hogging.

 

[stompybritches]

I use these
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XWNSWK5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 They cut like lasers and you definitely don't want to 'attack' the sapling, cut it like you would a saw and it cuts right thru. No good on rocks for sure. I have a Stihl trimmer I use line on and a Husky that I use the blade on. The blade is more for specific cutting, not just swinging the trimmer, like cutting saplings on a tree line or cutting saplings/trees in a field before brush hogging.

Those are interesting. I wonder if I could get them on my Toro. Everything around here is too tough for anything but metal.

 

[ArlyA]

Those are interesting. I wonder if I could get them on my Toro. Everything around here is too tough for anything but metal.

What size strings have you tried?

 

[stompybritches]

A sawzall on a stump root is a great idea. I was using a Maddox when I was doing stump work before the advent of battery powered sawzalls, and that's hard work.

I use corded sawzalls with my gen and just toss the stumps in the bed of the truck. There's a 7" blade, what was the name, well it's a bit short but it's some thick Japanese pruning blade I've always wanted to try, made specifically for sawzalls and very sturdy. If I find the bookmark will post it. Positive you could take trees down with it just coming in from both sides, dang can't find the link yet...
I normally use the 'wood with nails' blades and keep spraying silicone lube on the blade. Juniper is the nastiest tree out there, I call it The Devil Tree. Some are rotten and hollow inside, some have old metal embedded or rocks they grew around and absorbed, some have like 8 'trunks' at the base so you have to notch cut each one and they aren't round at all, they can spin and hang up. The bark is chock full of dirt grit and sand, I actually use a darn scrub brush before I even make a cut low on a trunk. They can also have pack rats living inside I got so fed up wasting time sharpening chainsaws and cleaning them out I just bought another pair of auction sawzalls and retired the chainsaws for notch cuts on bigger trunks, you can't kill a sawzall. I get more work done with those than with a chainsaw to be honest. Tall sage when it's old is also nasty and I prefer cutting the entire thing off below ground and getting it out of the pasture. Bigger areas I'll DR but not a fan of 'trippers' left behind.

 

[stompybritches]

What size strings have you tried?

That braided ballistic twist .155, it's green not sure the brand. Head high wild rye just gets hung up it's so thick of stands. Probably user error

 

[ArlyA]

That braided ballistic twist .155, it's green not sure the brand. Head high wild rye just gets hung up it's so thick of stands. Probably user error

Most people haven't even tried anything over .100 string. I looked at .190 string today. Have a whole thread about clearing trails here.

 

[Zork]

From the title, I was expecting a story about a brushfire.



Can the blade be resharpened?

Bruce

I thought it was an advertisement.

 

[CliffordK]

Clear Thousands of Acres of Brush in No Time With This One Weird Trick.

Keep in mind scale.

640 acres is about a square mile. A few thousand acres are a few square miles. If you did a lot of brush clearing in the morning, how much was that realistically?

Now, the fire crews may clear a lot of brush with simple hand tools, but that is with a lot of boots on the ground.

For any real brush clearing (ignoring fires and such), you'll need something like this.

But they're not particularly cheap.

Using the mulcher can take down a lot of brush, and leave chips that will rot down in a few years (but may still burn), but it doesn't necessarily kill everything in its path. So, either repeated passes over the years, or look for something that takes up the roots too like a CAT.

 

[ArlyA]

This the OP still here?? I thought he was long gone.

 

[newbury]

This the OP still here?? I thought he was long gone.

Don't you know how to check?
The OP was Last seen Oct 1, 2023