I have been thinking about something smaller and lighter than my Echo TH saw for first pass/wayfinding disc golf course buiding, and had asked in here about "whats the smallest, lightest gas saw" and got some replies (thanks) but it all boiled down to, still looking at minimum 6-7 pounds, and since my Echo isn't much more than that, was skipping gettign anything new.
I spoke with my neighbor at the ranch yesterday, to give him some help not clearing any of my land while he is blazing a path large enough to fence his property. (w/o a survey, and relying on my survey marks, dead reckoning and a compass through thick Hammock) He had a wagon full of tools, and he and his wife and passel of children are working down the line with a brush cutter, a 352, and a 590. Several different hand blades and making small burn piles and raking all the leaves and peat and burning. (Industrious people for sure.
THEN I SPIED THE HATCHET in the wagon.... "Can I try that out, been thinking about getting something like it" (Before you flame me about borrowing a saw, I rolled up on my JD Gator with my TH, 352, 590, and MS 440...)
It was exactly what I need. I cut a couple of 2 inch Hickory shoots, a 4 inch Ironwood, and a handlful of cabbage palms limbs, and gave it back before I popped a Boner over my new find. Picking one up today. Even though its the 12v battery platform and I am invested in the 18v, I have to have it. I spent a few minutes on my phone computer and of course found the 18v 16", but its a rear handle, and my efforts to research if could I put the 6" bar from a hatchet on the 18v Rear Handle, I just said F-it, the rear handle 18v was just as heavy as my Echo..... I'll just buy as many 12v batteries as I need. This little booger will help me greatly when I am building something new. I will be faster and spend less time wayfinding, and have more strength and energy to go longer into the day. And not have to fill and oil so much.... A bonus, I can keep it in my truck without stinking up the place. Bigger bonus, riding the fire breaks I keep, sightseeing or bird watching, game spotting, I can remove any overhangs or palm limbs for my passengers comfort, without leaving the seat. Review coming once I put it to work this weekend.
On a side note- We walked the length of work he had done, and I was real happy he wasn't being heavy handed on trees "on the line", and he had done real well clearing line of sight on 650'. I had my binoculars, and was able to see 1300', about four parcel corners worth between me (I own the entire length) his property of 660' and the neighbor on the other side of him who owns a parcel behind him and becomes my adjoining property neoghbor- who paid some one to thrash that line because he intended to clear and fence his entire land for horses and cows. I own quite a bit more past both of them, but I dont have it cleared like down the property lines. I have a 2 mile long loop we like to call a fire break. Got to talk with the second neighbor while I was using my ASV RC 30 and rootrake/Grapple to round up cut vegetation and stack it for the first guys burning, and he realyed his wife said not to bother with fencing the back part of theirs, its too wet for the horses, so it will grow back.....
Neither of them had to have a survey performed when they bought their land with homes on them, so none of them have actual survey stobs and paper. Although neighbor one did find two stobs of a different surveyor I had never seen ( I knew of one ) and I was able to get the surveyors # off the cap, so I will find him and see about a courtesy copy for my neighbor. The three foreign stobs do agree with the alignment so its good.
Double side note- I thought I was going to have a problem with first neighbor. Had been shooting with no backstop, to the extent they put a 32 cal round ball into my 2 story Outhouse, that I dug out and had to show them, a couple of years ago. They have built a backstop now....
Still worried about them a bit though, doing all this work by hand, and i see a brand new Kubota 38 Hp 4wd FEL sitting in the front yard. He's had it 2 weeks, and he says he can't get it down the lanes he's opening up to fence. ???? Not a SPECK of mud on it anywhere, bucket has ALL of its fresh orange paint. H'es got a stack of fence posts to install, and he's not thinking he wants to find a 3pt Auger, he'll install with PHD's.... ????? NOt huge machine, maybe 4' wide, I just think he's a novice, and it is thick Oak Hammock land. To each his own.
I spoke with my neighbor at the ranch yesterday, to give him some help not clearing any of my land while he is blazing a path large enough to fence his property. (w/o a survey, and relying on my survey marks, dead reckoning and a compass through thick Hammock) He had a wagon full of tools, and he and his wife and passel of children are working down the line with a brush cutter, a 352, and a 590. Several different hand blades and making small burn piles and raking all the leaves and peat and burning. (Industrious people for sure.
THEN I SPIED THE HATCHET in the wagon.... "Can I try that out, been thinking about getting something like it" (Before you flame me about borrowing a saw, I rolled up on my JD Gator with my TH, 352, 590, and MS 440...)
It was exactly what I need. I cut a couple of 2 inch Hickory shoots, a 4 inch Ironwood, and a handlful of cabbage palms limbs, and gave it back before I popped a Boner over my new find. Picking one up today. Even though its the 12v battery platform and I am invested in the 18v, I have to have it. I spent a few minutes on my phone computer and of course found the 18v 16", but its a rear handle, and my efforts to research if could I put the 6" bar from a hatchet on the 18v Rear Handle, I just said F-it, the rear handle 18v was just as heavy as my Echo..... I'll just buy as many 12v batteries as I need. This little booger will help me greatly when I am building something new. I will be faster and spend less time wayfinding, and have more strength and energy to go longer into the day. And not have to fill and oil so much.... A bonus, I can keep it in my truck without stinking up the place. Bigger bonus, riding the fire breaks I keep, sightseeing or bird watching, game spotting, I can remove any overhangs or palm limbs for my passengers comfort, without leaving the seat. Review coming once I put it to work this weekend.
On a side note- We walked the length of work he had done, and I was real happy he wasn't being heavy handed on trees "on the line", and he had done real well clearing line of sight on 650'. I had my binoculars, and was able to see 1300', about four parcel corners worth between me (I own the entire length) his property of 660' and the neighbor on the other side of him who owns a parcel behind him and becomes my adjoining property neoghbor- who paid some one to thrash that line because he intended to clear and fence his entire land for horses and cows. I own quite a bit more past both of them, but I dont have it cleared like down the property lines. I have a 2 mile long loop we like to call a fire break. Got to talk with the second neighbor while I was using my ASV RC 30 and rootrake/Grapple to round up cut vegetation and stack it for the first guys burning, and he realyed his wife said not to bother with fencing the back part of theirs, its too wet for the horses, so it will grow back.....
Neither of them had to have a survey performed when they bought their land with homes on them, so none of them have actual survey stobs and paper. Although neighbor one did find two stobs of a different surveyor I had never seen ( I knew of one ) and I was able to get the surveyors # off the cap, so I will find him and see about a courtesy copy for my neighbor. The three foreign stobs do agree with the alignment so its good.
Double side note- I thought I was going to have a problem with first neighbor. Had been shooting with no backstop, to the extent they put a 32 cal round ball into my 2 story Outhouse, that I dug out and had to show them, a couple of years ago. They have built a backstop now....
Still worried about them a bit though, doing all this work by hand, and i see a brand new Kubota 38 Hp 4wd FEL sitting in the front yard. He's had it 2 weeks, and he says he can't get it down the lanes he's opening up to fence. ???? Not a SPECK of mud on it anywhere, bucket has ALL of its fresh orange paint. H'es got a stack of fence posts to install, and he's not thinking he wants to find a 3pt Auger, he'll install with PHD's.... ????? NOt huge machine, maybe 4' wide, I just think he's a novice, and it is thick Oak Hammock land. To each his own.