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TG1860, BX2380 -backblade, bx2830 snowblower, fel, weight box,pallet forks,etc
The other day I got my VHF antenna that I use for ham radio stuck in my Maple tree that's close to the house (you can just see it in the upper left hand corner of one shot) and so I cobbled together a very flimsy 23' pipe of various 1-1.5" pcs of aluminum and taped a mini Buck Saw to the end of it. It was just barely long enough to reach the branches I needed to hack off and took me an exhausting 1.5hrs to get 90% of the branches removed.
The main issue was.....I am not as young as I used to be - and - the pole was like a pc of spaghetti !
Today I decided to finish the job but they say work smarter, not harder, so I used a 20' x 2" HD aluminum mast and a DeWalt 20V reciprocating saw on a bracket on the far end of the pipe. The pipe was stuck into my 2" receiver on top of my bucket.
Took me about 1.25hrs to "invent" the system to hold the saw and under 10 minutes to hack off the remaining 2 branches. (1 minute per branch and 8minutes repositioning the tractor to get onto the 2nd branch. It's a lot harder than it looks because you just can't see what's going on with all the Maple leaves and I thought I might snap the saw in 1/2 if I drove it into the trunk or large branch...so you need to keep hopping on/off the tractor, go into the house, look out an upstairs window, move the tractor, tip the bucket, pray not to crack the saw in 1/2 (you get the idea.)
Next year I'll do this all in the spring before the leaves pop out !
(The small white rope is tied to the on/off switch on the DeWalt 20V reciprocating saw)
The saw is held onto a small aluminum bracket <muffler clamped to the pipe> with 2 ratchet straps and some eyebolts.
The main issue was.....I am not as young as I used to be - and - the pole was like a pc of spaghetti !
Today I decided to finish the job but they say work smarter, not harder, so I used a 20' x 2" HD aluminum mast and a DeWalt 20V reciprocating saw on a bracket on the far end of the pipe. The pipe was stuck into my 2" receiver on top of my bucket.
Took me about 1.25hrs to "invent" the system to hold the saw and under 10 minutes to hack off the remaining 2 branches. (1 minute per branch and 8minutes repositioning the tractor to get onto the 2nd branch. It's a lot harder than it looks because you just can't see what's going on with all the Maple leaves and I thought I might snap the saw in 1/2 if I drove it into the trunk or large branch...so you need to keep hopping on/off the tractor, go into the house, look out an upstairs window, move the tractor, tip the bucket, pray not to crack the saw in 1/2 (you get the idea.)
Next year I'll do this all in the spring before the leaves pop out !
(The small white rope is tied to the on/off switch on the DeWalt 20V reciprocating saw)
The saw is held onto a small aluminum bracket <muffler clamped to the pipe> with 2 ratchet straps and some eyebolts.
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