I thought maybe I’d posted about this tree before when I had to take a branch off the roof of his garage, but can’t find it. I know I made mention of it in Bucket trucks Anyways, last weekend another larger one came down, landed across the fence with the neighbor ( no real damage to the fence) and just missed the garage. I forgot to get pictures before I started today and he had already cleaned up the neighbors side with a corded electric pole saw without the pole. So here’s a couple pictures from today. There will be more when I get a chance to get the bucket truck over there. It should split pretty good . speaking of splitting…. My splitter operator is really getting behind
Since the Step sons elm Got put on hold due to the bucket truck failure. We took the chipper out to this hackberry that came down earlier this summer for its trial run Don’t worth as slick as I’d hoped. Gonna flip the knives in the morning and see how much that helps. Don’t feed as well as I think it should.
I’m more familiar with drum style chippers, but a disc chipper must have an anvil too. What’s the gap from blade to anvil? What condition is the edge of the anvil? The downforce on top roller is from springs? Could the springs be wore out?
Kinda hijacking my own thread here, but oh well. After the somewhat disappointing trial run of my new chipper on Saturday, I worked on it for several hours on Sunday. I flipped the knives over to what appears to be a factory new edge. Turned the anvil to a new edge and adjusted it until it looked about right. ( no idea what the gap should be). Lubed the yoke that holds and goes up and down with the top feed roller. I think that made the biggest difference in the overall functioning of the machine. (amazing what a little lubrication will do) Took it back out to the hackberry blowdown and it performed much better. Also just getting a little time in with it to learn the techniques helped. In the chipper’s defense I’m sure a hackberry growing in the wide open is not the best thing to use for evaluation. To many bumps and warts, no straight sections over 2” long. I had another job of cleaning up around a defunct windmill and tank at the local fairgrounds. 2 cedars about 6-8” and a bunch of chokecherry saplings. I kept about the bottom 2ft of each cedar and chipped everything else. Worked really nice. Turned what I figured to be a 4 hour job and 2-3 loads of brush to haul when I bid it, into done and packed up and pulling out in 2 hours. Pictures of the hackberry blowdown and one of the loads of rounds from Sunday evening
Got the bucket truck going ( not mine yet) so we finally got to work on his dead elm. Borrowed a dump trailer. Chipper worked good, truck worked good. Tighter quarters than it looked like without the equipment in place. Power line made maneuvering the bucket a challenge for a rookie. Large branches over and parallel with neighbors fence. And the whole tree over the garage. Didn’t really get started until around 11:00 this morning, and quit at dark. Should be able to get a earlier start and finish tomorrow.
There's some good heat in that dead Elm.Most of it can be cut down to stove lengths and popped right into the stove no sweat.
