Author Topic: 3 hours of hedge cutting (Read 10872 times)

Riverrat · « **on:** January 03, 2015, 08:50:16 am »

Love the Dolmar 7910 saw 3 hours later loaded with 9800 lbs of hedge and heading home

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2015, 09:09:01 am »

Rat, haven't had time to look fore those numbers yet. That's some load of hedge, you must have a loader to load those big blocks? that stuff is heavy. Jack

lazy shooter · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2015, 09:47:10 am »

The Rat be a man. That is a whole lot of results for three hours of work. Rat you are one efficient, hard working fellow. Congratulations on your work.

iddee · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2015, 01:05:18 pm »

Whatcha talkin' about, Jack. Rat stood on the scales and lifted the back of the truck to see it weighed 9800.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2015, 04:39:28 pm »

Quote from: iddee on January 03, 2015, 01:05:18 pm

Whatcha talkin' about, Jack. Rat stood on the scales and lifted the back of the truck to see it weighed 9800.

That was AFTER that old ford died and he had to TOW it the last 3/4 mile to the scales himself.

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #5 on:** January 03, 2015, 05:25:28 pm »

Remind me not to ever make my old buddy rat mad.

Jack

Riverrat · « **Reply #6 on:** January 04, 2015, 09:40:28 am »

I got a loader I put the hedge in the bucket pick it up by the rear wheels and turn it over into back of truck. Motor quit on it years ago

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #7 on:** January 04, 2015, 10:20:52 pm »

Retroguy · « **Reply #8 on:** January 04, 2015, 10:44:26 pm »

Rat, when you say hedge, are you talking about Osage Orange? I remember seeing hedgerows of that stuff when I was a kid still being used as fence when we used to go through Kansas on our way to Texas.

Gypsi · « **Reply #9 on:** January 05, 2015, 01:04:55 am »

that looks like chunks of elm tree. I've obviously lived in Texas too long, you say hedge I think boxwood. What is that stuff.

Riverrat · « **Reply #10 on:** January 05, 2015, 09:48:28 am »

Hedge is also known as bodark and Osage orange. In most parts of the US it grows as a bush. Around here it can have a trunk up to 36 inches. It was brought in and planted on sections of ground in rows every half mile after the dust bowl. Now that farming methods have improved and most have went to no till the hedge rows are no longer needed and farmers are pushing them out. Hedge has the highest BTU rating of any wood is extremely dense and heavy. It is hard on chains when cutting. It will tear a chain up quickly I went through 3 chains cutting that load. Insects wont touch it and it wont rot. Only gets harder with age.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #11 on:** January 05, 2015, 07:46:36 pm »

Only gets harder with age.

Yeah, good luck fixing fence made with hedge posts.. after about ten years you will have better luck driving a steeple into concrete!

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #12 on:** January 05, 2015, 08:40:38 pm »

I just wire mine to the hedge post after they've been in the ground 5 yrs or more, you can have some real black thumb nails trying to drive a staple into seasoned hedge.

Jack

Gypsi · « **Reply #13 on:** January 07, 2015, 01:09:47 am »

Bois d'arc= boadark? I get it. one fell on my friend's house in a tornado. took 5 guys with chain saws a week to get it off

big green grapefruit size fruits that nothing eats?

Riverrat · « **Reply #14 on:** January 07, 2015, 09:13:06 am »

Quote from: Gypsi on January 07, 2015, 01:09:47 am

Bois d'arc= boadark? I get it. one fell on my friend's house in a tornado. took 5 guys with chain saws a week to get it off

big green grapefruit size fruits that nothing eats?

Rabbits squirrels and deer will chew on them to get the salt and water out of them

Retroguy · « **Reply #15 on:** January 11, 2015, 05:01:40 pm »

They call the fruit "hedge apples" up here. Supposed to be good for hanging in the cellar and other places where you don't want to have spiders. I've never tried them but I'm not overly fond of spiders so maybe ought to try getting a few. Maybe I wouldn't have to vacuum cobwebs in the basement all the time.

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #16 on:** January 11, 2015, 07:25:59 pm »

Mice eat them so which do you like the best Spiders or Mice.

Jack

Retroguy · « **Reply #17 on:** January 11, 2015, 07:58:26 pm »

Mice at least look cute and we have 6 cats around the place. Three inside and 3 outside. The mice don't last long. Grandma Cat and her daughters will gang up and chase off an occasional fox.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #18 on:** January 11, 2015, 09:23:26 pm »

I grew up with the myth that hedge balls keep spiders out of cellars. My grandmother used to keep them all about the "cave" beside the house where she kept her canned goods.. As I recall, there were usually a LOT of spiders in there..
I come across them often while wandering the woods.. I am usually more excited about finding Buckeye trees!

Retroguy · « **Reply #19 on:** January 22, 2015, 01:50:48 am »

I've got a Buckeye around here somewhere (not the tree, the nut). We tend to call them Horse Chestnuts up this way. Don't know if the tree can stand our cold winters. My great-aunt gave it to me, said I was supposed to carry it in my pocket for good luck.