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ducaticorse said:
I had a 441 with a 28 and a hand sharpened chain, and I gave up. I woulda liked to see some poor ass take that down with a 16.... The stump is way bigger than you must think it is..
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60% of my stumps are that high, I am so glad I got my sc602, that stump is tops five minutes easier than a saw getting dulled too:monkey: Nothing like shaft drive in a stump cutter.

PS: this stump was 50" at ground:)


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ducaticorse said:
I had a 441 with a 28 and a hand sharpened chain, and I gave up. I woulda liked to see some poor ass take that down with a 16.... The stump is way bigger than you must think it is..
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Pics always make things look smaller.
 
treeclimber101 said:
You gave it up , like as in adoption or something ? Kinda tough to cut trees with out the right saw and the extra wear and tear cutting stumps like that with a 352 will pay for that saw real quick ... I dunno maybe I may be misunderstanding you or something ..
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Nope, nothing really to misunderstand. Didn't have a saw on site with enough balls to finish, had the stumper there and a deadline, so we had at it. I posted the thread as a little comic relief anyway... The 395 and 372 were not available, and to all you Stihl fans, why one would ever opt for a 441 over the 461 is a mystery to me, that saw is a dog.
 
Started a twelve tree removal taday. Its on a farm where we can dump it by there brush pile. When I gave him the number on it he said thats all? It was a referrill and he didnt get any other bids. Its a fair price and am glad to do the work. Im doing their sons tree too.
 
Did a nice job today, just getting a property presentable so that it can be put on the market. 1 removal that I had to climb, and a bunch of power pole saw work. Was able to blow the chips into the woods which was nice, and the small amount of wood that was too big to chip stayed right next to the stump. 3 guys 6.5 hrs including half an hour for lunch. Not a bad Saturday job... plus the lady put on an additional 2 bills at the end of the day. Everybody was happy.
 
ropensaddle said:
60% of my stumps are that high, I am so glad I got my sc602, that stump is tops five minutes easier than a saw getting dulled too:monkey: Nothing like shaft drive in a stump cutter.

PS: this stump was 50" at ground:)


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Normally when I have to grind stumps I'm running an RG100 with dozer blade... the way I see it, as long as I can get on top of it with the cutter wheel, we're good to go... rather grind it than move the gnarly wood / risk hitting something anyways.
 
treeman82 said:
Normally when I have to grind stumps I'm running an RG100 with dozer blade... the way I see it, as long as I can get on top of it with the cutter wheel, we're good to go... rather grind it than move the gnarly wood / risk hitting something anyways.
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I hear ya I don't really like some things about the big V but shaft drive blows away belt drive as it is true power to wood no slip just feels solid. I on my best day did 36 holes at the golf course and 127 stumps that was a long long day :)
 
 
Like I said in earlier post....all day Sat. 17 man hours, pulling English ivy off this old home and Montessouri School. A reg client for tree work we couldn't get out of it, but no bid. The owner, a lawyer had tried to do it himself and fell off the ladder 2 times into the bushes below. His wife insisted we do it so "he didn;t have to get that big ladder out again lol.

Kyle had just cleaned the east side and I had finished the unseen west side. His side had dead vines the ho had killed earlier and my side were all alive. Pliars, prying tools, scraper, wrecker bar, wire brush etc all were no match as scraped knuckles were most the result. The live ones grab like crazy glue and they are all interwoven so if you pull just one it breaks off at the cross piece. :censored:
 
jefflovstrom said:
Looks like tedious work. Do you price it or go by the hour?
Jeff
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Yeah Jeff, 80$ per man hour. Could charge more but they are regulars. They got a forest behind the house with a 300 year old oak and the kids play area running through it I maintained for decades.

Couldn't do it any other way than per man hour, as I had absolutely no idea how this stuff was gonna come off. Knew the east side would be pretty easy being dead but also knew the rest would be torture but thought maybe being on brick rather than wood siding might be easier....wrong. We still have some clean up on ground on Mon. but got the buckets out before school starts then with people walking in with their kids.
 

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