My 4 stroke Honda ("weed eater") brush cutter is fantastic.
Wow a 4 stroke, pretty good size cutter!
You should write a book. You definitely know how to do Friday right. Add a little fishing, & you could call it heaven. (Weather permitting)
Optional? One would think that it would be the most commonly purchased (and available) option in Alaska. But what do I know?
I have plenty of warm clothes. Also, cabs are special orders around here and would have delayed delivery by 3-4month. May eventually get one anyway, but I e been clearing snow with a 1st gen 2025r and a loader bucket for about 5yrs and really don't mind the open platform. Just got to keep the chute pointed down wind.
Will be cutting some links on my tire chains this afternoon to get them to fit properly. No snow this week, so my driveway is finally fully plowed. Hoping to haul about 20yds of snow to our property later this week to keep the piles manageable in the driveway.
Yep, with the latter size being primarily used on the SU models to enhance the AOD when outfitted with the BH-77, which was my original plan for my LX. I can't stick my hand between the fender lip and the top of the tire. They're BIG.
Depends on the weed eater and the blade mass. If the power head has enough weight to horsepower ratio, it isn't too bad, IF the blade is used correctly. It's more a sidekick/twist, but it will usually stall the speed pretty quickly with most blades. It takes a little longer to accelerate the mass of the blade than a string trimmer (for obvious reasons), meaning it also takes a bit more to stop it. It WILL toss a lot more larger grit/gravel debris back at the operator because they typically don't have a guard like the string trimmers do, but they're intended to use for cutting brush above the soil line. They don't have much draft, meaning they don't pick up loose material so much, but they have a very high tip speed which means they'll typically shatter small rocks and turn them into shrapnel. Blades are pretty rough on the bearings and gears in the cutter head. Lots of severe impact. They also dull very quickly. Pretty amazing how tough those little buggers are, though. I typically start seeing grease leaks in the gear boxes after using a blade for a while. Blades are what I started clearing my property with. Just watch out for seasoned pine knots and rocks. The shards/chips hurt when they hit, even through thick jeans. I've picked more than one sharp splinter out. I've also seen some folks use table-saw blades on them. I can't think of anything that would be much more dangerous. Blades normally require some sort of adapter as well as some work to remove the string head. I bought a second head for mine at one time just so I could leave the blade on. I don' t use the blade anymore because I found something better, and a lot less dangerous.
I use a three point blade for the dam. It’s good with blackberries, heavy stemmed weeds, and the annual saplings that are up to maybe 3/4” but mostly 1/2” or less. Between the mass of the weedeater and the inertia of the spinning blade it doesn’t kick bad at all.
Seriously! I had a similar thought. This is how my day started yesterday morning.
Ha! Too windy lately for fishin.
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How long does it take with your setup to do your plowing with an average snow fall? My little wirehair Rudy, last night on the last trip thru the edge of the woods at 9pm got about 5 whitetails out of their beds. He thinks he is a force to be reconciled with all his 40 lbs. He loves the snow though! I have collars on mine and just use the vibrate if they get out of hand but he stops now with a yell. Never go out without them on after a skunk match a few years ago.
I have close to 400 yards of driveway and parking areas and it takes about 30 minutes. I was cleaning up some piles of snow this morning that my neighbor's snow removal contractor created, so I was outside for about 40 minutes. Took much longer to add 10 gallons of fuel, add some engine oil, grease the loader, grease the snow blade, blow out the cab, blow out the air filter, and blow out the screens in front of the radiators.
