New member of the Chuck & Duck club

[CT_Tree_Guy]

HB2 -

Thanks for the kind words, and man, you have a way with words! I can hear that beast screaming right now, wailing like the sirens who called to Ulysses, and just as capable of causing one's undoing. I want one!

There's just something strangely irresistable about something that will kill you if you're not careful. I guess that's why so many of us are drawn to some of the things that we are - dirt bikes, quads, sky-diving, mountaineering, flying, scuba diving, rodeo, running with the bulls, auto racing, tractoring or tree-climbing.

Do we all have a death-wish? I don't think so. I think we share a wish to live life to its fullest, without fear, but with a very healthy respect for that life itself, and the things that can take it away from us.

So let's be careful out there, but let's live, too ... always in balance, and with a clear head .... and an open heart.

To life!

 

[HomeBrew2]

To life, sir! ... and, to keeping a healthy respect for the possibility of our demise at our own hands while trying to get some freaking work done. ... ... touche on the Ulysses thing, that IS what it felt like ... but I couldn't hear anything with that stupid head thing on ... I have a lot more fear when the sound is all distorted and my ears ring ... still learning.
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[BarryinMN]

I won't be 49 for another 3 months & a couple of weeks /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I negotiated from the $2400 the owner wanted to $800. The thing didn't work & the dual exhausts are held on with baling wire. The owner shut down his business which had several chippers, bucket trucks with chipper boxes. The newer stuff sold quick leaving the oldest stuff sitting around.

Bought it primarily to clean up around old farmstead. Was not scary until I fed it a 30' + pine from winter blow down. This tree was big enough to hide a Chevy Impala under it. Hoisted the trunk in the chute & was going to walk out to the top & push; before I got out there the drum got it & took it all in snapping bottom branches & all in seconds!! Only thing left was a strip of pine needles and a piney fresh scent in the field.

That chipper just burped and said more /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

After that visual I stopped running it solo. And put it on the top of my dangerous stuff in the barn list.

Anyway congrats on the buy & post some action shots!

 

[HomeBrew2]

Talk about a way with words!, nice story Barry !!!
You got a great buy!!! Is your's a V8?
Now that you mention it, I did experience the "burp" and craving for more "food".
Action shots are kindof tough when working alone but ... I'm game. I'll see what I can do.
Cheers!

 

[Jagmandave]

Standing to the side is important, but be careful about branches grabbing you as it sucks the tree in. I
rented a big Vermeer (able to chew a 12" trunk) that had the feed gears, and even then I had to jump out of the way sometimes as those branches got drug into the chipper. I took down over 30 trees in a couple of days. Just be careful and you'll be fine........

Of course, I then had the problem of what to do with three mountains of chips!

 

[dmccarty]

A tree trimming company in my area lost an employee a few years ago to a chipper. He was feeding the machine which grabbed him and pulled him into the chipper.

Head first.

The company had a help wanted sign up a day or so later....

I would love to have a chipper. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif And the chips. I just paid $18 a yard for hardwood mulch for the kids playset. Ceder was $36 a yard. I told the man I would rent a chipper to chip all of the downed cedars I have before paying $36 a yard. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Later,
Dan

 

[Phils]

Homebrew,

Fire prevention clearing should be exempt from Air Quality rules!

My story, and I'm sticking to it, is that I'm burning wood for a "cooking fire" and that IS exempt (so far). I burn HUGE piles of manzanita so that I'll have sufficient coals to use with my dutch ovens. I've attached a photo showing dutch oven cooking that we did in Raymond, CA, near you. Of course, at home I use from one to five ovens depending on the meal.

I know eventually I'll have to get a chipper, and I wish you lived nextdoor as that one you bought looks GREAT. But for the meantime, I follow our county's Air Quality Mgt. rules, and also CDF rules, and build "cooking fires".

Phil

 

[HomeBrew2]

Yep! We land owners are mad about the Air Board restrictions but if you want an ear full from folks that are madder ... talk to anyone that works for CDF (Calif. Div. of Forestry) !!! ... similar to your solution, I was told to always carry a package of hotdogs to the burn pile in case it's not a burn day /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
BTW, I sure have enjoyed seeing you guys on FoodTV doing the dutch oven/pioneer cooking thing ... always struck me as a "sport" with a built-in tailgate party!!! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Cheers!