The Tractor Thread

Marie Mallory said:
Don it is defiantly chainsaw material. Not sure if I can still use a chainsaw, I had one 10 years ago, but it wasn't a big one.
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That is why I said to use a cordless electric one. They are a lot easier to use than a gas-powered saw, but mine only goes for about 45 minutes before needing recharging. Still, for a few tree or vines it would be great.
 
Don Alaska said:
That is great if you can remove the head and use it like a regular saw. 8" is a bit small, but you should be able to cut a vine or tree up 12" to 14" in diameter with that.
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It breaks down to about three feet, and cuts well, but for the "larger" trees, I use my 20 inch bar chainsaw, and it really gets the job done. I've took some real big trees out with it last year, after Heleen popped large trees in half, and I knew they're not coming back, so I cut them down, they were so big I felt the ground shake, when they hit. Then I cut them into 8-10 foot sections, and pulled them with my tractor to the field.

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I just thought if you had a little 12" cordless, @Marie Mallory would be able to use it if needed. My wife can use our little one, but she can't even get the gas ones started. I have a 16", and 18" and a 24 " saw. I use the 18 the most as it is the newest and easiest to start. The 24 inch saw is a professional model is heavy for me to use. My youngest used it to clear his property, and I use it if I want to saw a log into boards or beams. My little 16 inch saw I have had for 50 years and last used in in 2000 when we flew into a moose camp. It was convenient to fit into the small plane.
 
I have gas and battery-operated chainsaws and for anything around the house, I won't even consider the gas-powered ones. For the most part, by the time I got one of the gas-powered ones started, I could have finished the project with a battery-powered one. On the other hand, if I am planning on cutting several trees down on my land up north, a battery-operated one won't last long enough to do the job. I have a Stihl, which is the hardest to start, and an older Craftsman that starts easily but doesn't have the power of the Stihl, so it's good for softwoods.
 
Ken Anderson said:
I have gas and battery-operated chainsaws and for anything around the house, I won't even consider the gas-powered ones. For the most part, by the time I got one of the gas-powered ones started, I could have finished the project with a battery-powered one. On the other hand, if I am planning on cutting several trees down on my land up north, a battery-operated one won't last long enough to do the job. I have a Stihl, which is the hardest to start, and an older Craftsman that starts easily but doesn't have the power of the Stihl, so it's good for softwoods.
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That is the way I think too, @Ken Anderson. I originally got the electric saw so I could work on a ladder and use one hand to cut limbs and such, but now I use it for all the little jobs. Like I said before, my saw lasts about 45 minutes at a time. Anything more than that, and I use the gasoline saw. I also have a sawbuck that the electric saw is too short for, so I use the 18 inch saw for that. I also got and electric splitter in my old age. When I had sons at home, we could split wood faster than any splitter can do it, but now that I am alone in the woods, I cut the logs into manageable lengths, load them into the tractor bucket, bring them back to the house and either pile it for later or split and stack it at that time. My boys burned a face cord of birch for fires in the fire pit by the lake, so I will have to replace that and more after the weather warms and the garden is in. We have a pause in life at that time, so we can travel then or get those building, and forestry chores competed.
 
Don Alaska said:
I just thought if you had a little 12" cordless, @Marie Mallory would be able to use it if needed. My wife can use our little one, but she can't even get the gas ones started. I have a 16", and 18" and a 24 " saw. I use the 18 the most as it is the newest and easiest to start. The 24 inch saw is a professional model is heavy for me to use. My youngest used it to clear his property, and I use it if I want to saw a log into boards or beams. My little 16 inch saw I have had for 50 years and last used in in 2000 when we flew into a moose camp. It was convenient to fit into the small plane.
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Don, I still have an electric chain saw I used years ago. I got so much into killing ' normal' vines I haven't even thought of it in years. Not sure about bar size Jake thinks it is 12inch.
Mostly loppers are what I use now.
 
Marie Mallory said:
Don, I still have an electric chain saw I used years ago. I got so much into killing ' normal' vines I haven't even thought of it in years. Not sure about bar size Jake thinks it is 12inch.
Mostly loppers are what I use now.
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But you cannot use loppers on a vine the size of a thigh. Do you have the ratchet loppers or the standard? Ratchet loppers, if they are still made, are easier for us old folks to use. Florian developed and marketed them for years, but I think the Chinese copied their design and put them out of business with a cheaper, less effective tool.
 
Don Alaska said:
I just thought if you had a little 12" cordless, @Marie Mallory would be able to use it if needed. My wife can use our little one, but she can't even get the gas ones started. I have a 16", and 18" and a 24 " saw. I use the 18 the most as it is the newest and easiest to start. The 24 inch saw is a professional model is heavy for me to use. My youngest used it to clear his property, and I use it if I want to saw a log into boards or beams. My little 16 inch saw I have had for 50 years and last used in in 2000 when we flew into a moose camp. It was convenient to fit into the small plane.
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We do have an electric chainsaw, hanging in the barn since 1998, I will check it out, and put a new chain on it; I had forgotten about that one, until you said this. It used to work well on smaller limbs; I was surprised how well it would cut. I also have two 18 inch bar poulan pro chainsaws, never cranked well and on the top where the gas line goes into the head sheared off, have to repair one of them. I bought this other 20 inch bar one, since those two were aggregating the heck out of me. I wanted a stihl chainsaw, but they cost too much money. This 20 inch bar one, is great about cranking, no more than three pulls fires right up, idles great, and cuts real well. So for the price, I'm very happy with it.
 
Jake Smith said:
We do have an electric chainsaw, hanging in the barn since 1998, I will check it out, and put a new chain on it; I had forgotten about that one, until you said this. It used to work well on smaller limbs; I was surprised how well it would cut. I also have two 18 inch bar poulan pro chainsaws, never cranked well and on the top where the gas line goes into the head sheared off, have to repair one of them. I bought this other 20 inch bar one, since those two were aggregating the heck out of me. I wanted a stihl chainsaw, but they cost too much money. This 20 inch bar one, is great about cranking, no more than three pulls fires right up, idles great, and cuts real well. So for the price, I'm very happy with it.
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I have discovered that if I put both Stabil and Seafoam in the gas, the chainsaws start a whole lot easier @Jake Smith. Give it a try if you have some around. I was very surprised how much difference the Seafoam made.
 
I put a few hours into smoothing out the 500 ft trail today, with the tractor and box blade. Used the hooks to bust it up some first, then I took the hooks off and smoothed it with just the blade. It's a lot "smoother" now. Then I took the chainsaw to those big vines, and cut them off at ground and head height, to let them die. As I was doing that, I saw one that I thought was a tree, but it's not, it's another vine large as my legs. I've never seen vines any bigger than these are. :unsure:
 
Don Alaska said:
But you cannot use loppers on a vine the size of a thigh. Do you have the ratchet loppers or the standard? Ratchet loppers, if they are still made, are easier for us old folks to use. Florian developed and marketed them for years, but I think the Chinese copied their design and put them out of business with a cheaper, less effective tool.
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Don those loppers are getting harder and harder to use, I must be losing muscle strength.
 
My son bought me a pair of cordless electric loppers for pruning trees and such. They work really well, but you have to make sure your fingers are out of the way or you might lose them. They cut wood up to about 1 1/2 inches.
 
Just got back inside from recutting trenches out front, with the plow, cut it a little deeper this time, so they will get a bounce out of it; if they decide to run on the grass. When I came back in, I went ahead and cut some rows for our garden, with our new "plow". Tractor just keeps on keeping on, just wishes about "Marie" loving it like I do. Mostly, she just uses it like a vice, against "me", to get her way. It has really made my life easier around here, dealing with Heleen debris and trails, fencing, gardening and etc, etc, etc. :)

Got to get off here and plant these seeds in peat pellets, then go weed the rows I cut and fertilize, for planting on March 15th. When It gets up looking good, I will post some pics.
 
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