Last year I scored some monstrous roadside Red Oak, about a mile from my house My grapple would barely open big enough to grab some of the chunks Between the front grapple and the rear forks, I was able to grab and bring home two large chunks at a time I had bucked up quite a bit of the "smaller" stuff. The biggest stuff I had been avoiding tackling.....until today. I assembled a crackshot team to take down the beasts, including the 7900 monster slayer. After 1-1.5 hours, I had successfully taken them down to manageable sized pieces It was at that moment I knew there was a new "King of the Mountain"!
They were bigguns for sure. The one on the 3 point calcs out at 2500 lbs and it’s only 5 ft long. They thought they had me beat but I whipped out my long bar and quartered them them into another dimension. Then I popped them apart while screaming “You’re mine!!!!”. I looked over to the house and my wife was shaking her head. By the time i was done I had more noodles than the tent at the Italian festival opening day.
It’s a Worksaver model #FLGR-4062. It’s 60” wide. Biggest downside is it only opens about 27”. I’m thinking of getting a Frostbite grapple to use in addition to this one. They open to about 42”, and are better for grabbing big logs, rocks, and can hold more brush.
Dolmar 7900 saw. 80cc class, nice power & good overall saws. That looks like a nice specimen too. Nice work on the big Oak, I've tackled a number of those & it's real work. Got a 50" X 6' log down back now that I gotta get busted up.
Great BTU's and I'll bet it's already warmed you up once or twice. One of these days I need to measure an oak trunk down at Lefty's place. It is on the to do list someplace, just not sure where but I do know I need to get the re-built 660 from Kevin broken in.
As stated, it’s a Dolmar 7900. 79cc, 6.3hp, 13.6 lbs. Comparable other saws would be a 385 Husky or a 460 Stihl. Between my brother and myself we have those two models and they’re all neck and neck, with multiple side by side cuts in the past to verify. The bar on the 7900 is 32” for reference.
Normally I rip with a 24" (called 25" by Stihl) bar on the MS460, but its been giving me trouble lately.
