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  1. 6th June 2007, 06:07 PM #41
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blknight.aus View Post
    when the saw wont drop a tree I resort to more expansive devices...

    Its usually about then that I take the bar off and put the 3 inch arbour on, drain some fuel out of the tank and grab the bag of fertilizer.........

    I thought you might have been able to get your hands on something a little more explosive than that, I thought you were in the Army or something...
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  2. 6th June 2007, 06:12 PM #42
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    Quote Originally Posted by Utemad View Post
    Pffffft are you telling me you COULDN'T drive that???

    And you could???

    I have twice come across fallen trees in northern NSW that were too big to either chop through or drive over (one had a 2m diameter trunk!!!). The other one was a bit smaller, but too big for the 18" bar on the saw I had back then. A crazy mate still tried to drive over it, and ended up getting the bullbar wedged when he reversed back off it. We had to cut part of the tree away to get him off...
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  3. 6th June 2007, 06:16 PM #43
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    Quote Originally Posted by isuzurover View Post
    And you could???
    Sure I could. Just after I put a bunch of smaller trees on either side of it
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  4. 6th June 2007, 06:21 PM #44
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    Notch it would be the only way to get through it, you can do that with any size saw just the bigger the saw the quicker you get through.


    Just cut it out in sections, it takes a long time and uses a lot of fuel as there is a lot of ripping but if you were stuck and had to go that way, or drop some smaller trees along side it and stack rocks and stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mcrover View Post
    I thought you might have been able to get your hands on something a little more explosive than that, I thought you were in the Army or something...
    Air force now...

    I dont even bother getting out I have 2 much better options..

    1. call in a chopper lift...

    2. air strike/close air support...

    and most places dont get upset if you happen to have a bag of fertilizer in the back of your deefer, the claymores strapped to the bull bar for "tree control" tends to raise a few eyebrows...
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  6. 6th June 2007, 06:27 PM #46
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    There's a good point, we often get strange looks when we order 2 or 3 tonnes of fertalizer specially nitrogen.
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    The Army makes you do a chainsaw cse before operating them as everything you touch needs a CSE CERT attached....
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  8. 7th June 2007, 04:17 PM #48
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    Quote Originally Posted by mcrover View Post
    Yep and has no Muffs, goggles or chaps, using an older style saw with no chain break, leaning over the saw and not to the side while standing in a precarious position where if the saw kicked back then he would fall off the tree followed closely by the saw.

    Hope it's an old photo and wasnt taken last weekend lol.
    It was 1970 and he was only a corporal-- we had plenty of them back then
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  9. 7th June 2007, 05:53 PM #49
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    Quote Originally Posted by DirtyDawg View Post
    The Army makes you do a chainsaw cse before operating them as everything you touch needs a CSE CERT attached....
    Same as Rural Fire Brigade
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