In the 5 years that I've been here, the property boundaries that were brushed clear have grown in. I am looking for a gas powered line trimmer sort of cutter but with a saw blade on it to be able to cut the brush/small trees that have sprouted up. Thank you!
I got into one when they were less expensive. These heads are awesome. Need minimum 25cc to spin them up decent. It'll eat saplings at 1/2 throttle due to flywheel effect...no need to spin it up a bunch to do the work. Host cutter needs torque. Looks like he's only dealing in bank transfers now. Merchant is respondant to questions via email in my past experience. I don't ever forsee needing to buy anything else. I got spare blades with it and haven't hardly worn the originals thus far. Highly reccomend. (yes I'm the odd one who looked all the way to Australia for a tool that *should be readily available in the US...lawyers and such) https://brushdestructor.com/ I use an old grey Echo for mine.
I might have an old one but it has been many years since it has been used. I used it a lot clearing brush and clearing for making trails in the woods. Very handy and was well worth the dollars I spent at the time. I cut a lot of witch hazel.
I got the stihl kombi system, I think its the biger one (maybe 131?). Bought the grass brush trimmer attachment that has the 4 blade type head, and bought a brush blade (kinda looks like a skil saw blade) and the line head separately. Also bought the pole saw attachment. Later I got the extension piece for the pole saw. For weeds and small brush, I've only used the line head and the '4 blade' attachment . The machine is a beast. Some of the best money I've spent. I need to put the skil saw type blade on to see what it can do. What size saplings/brush do you need to cut?
I have same system 131 is right IIRC The saw blade will take out wrist size sugar maple at full speed it’s impressive
The border lines have more weed type brush that woody materials but I'm guessing that the largest saplings would be under 2" diameter. Basswood, aspen, balsam, spruce, white cedar, ash, maple, red oak and some "woody type" brush are the main varieties. But, you know how that goes.....I might as well cut the sides of the power line since that has been growing in also. That stuff would be much greater than 2" but mostly basswood.
After checking all around for some tool rental shops (and finding none) in the hopes of maybe renting a DR type machine, I gave up and used the battery stihl chainsaw. The trouble with using that is now there all all sorts of "punji sticks" all over the place since I didn't have the "landscaping" chain on the saw..... We'll just have to wait for deeper snow before we are able to walk the trail without damaging the snowshoes.
