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Chains are depressingly expensive

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Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: feralkid
Originally posted by: Squisher
Yeah, the weight of the chain might just bring the tree down itself.



The wife and I brought down 16 fifty foot pine trees with a 12" chain saw (with a 16" blade on it) and 100 feet of rope. Now that was fun.

A 12 inch chainsaw with a 16 inch blade?

😕

He probably means they swapped the 12" bar for a 16" bar.

Exactly. I think I wore that thing out that week.



 
Those would all come out in a day with a 120 excavator. A 200 would be nicer, but since I'm an operator and bigger is always better, I'd say truck me in a PC450 and be done with it:laugh:
what would work, a 120. No wide load or overweight permits needed.
What I'd rather use. Wide load and overweight permits, about a $500 minimum trucking fee just to say "hello".
a 120 will run you $500 per day plus delivery, maybe less in Nebraska. A good operator is another couple hundred cash.
an example of the things that can happen without skilled operators........
8 hours by a contracting company will go at around 120 per, for $960.
 
When our new house was being built there were some trees that needed to go. They probably about 40 feet tall, oaks (tall skinny trees). Probably a foot in diameter. I like to call them scrub oaks. But anyways the guy who was excavating the foundation for the house would just put the bucket up on the dozer and push the trees in the direction he wanted them to fall. It worked well, then he pushed them all in a big pile for a little burn party. You just gotta make sure not to put the bucket up to far, or the top will probably snap off.
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: OdiN
http://picsorban.com/upload/thelr.jpg


Kudos to anyone who gets it.

The larch . . . the . . . larch. <------ Monty Python.

Send money instead. I take paypal.

No wonder I didn't get it. Monty Python is so not funny.

You obviously have no sense of humor.

It's probably because of the stick up my butt.

Oooooooo. Larch bark tickles when twisted. 😛

 
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