Tool Frustration Rag

[learnteach]

Tug has it right. Right tool for the right job. I don't have the RootBall Eradicating Technology.

The rootball is the gritty reality of soft wet wood. I've hacked small bits off, but the main ball is still there. I need to either hack about a third off, or recruit some serious muscle--which only delays the problem, doesn't fix it. So, A Tool Shed has 36" chainsaws...I'll check and see if they're actually in stock in the morning.

Why am I still commenting on this when it should be done, again? Got the fluids for the borrowed 16" chainsaw today, got it running, sharpened the blade, started it up, and it can barely hack the roots. Not enough power. Right up until it floods while I'm giving it gas; didn't get the mix right.

Haven't looked at bike yet...

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I'm not getting a full picture of this. Is the root ball still in the ground? Is it stuck to anything, or just lying there in a Death-Star-sized heap?

Lying on the ground,

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

in a ...hmmm...chainsaw eating, but if I had a lightsaber, i could cut my foot off heap. The wood is tough, burly (grain changes direction a lot), and has dirt in it, which dulls the chainsaw.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Is "a tool shed" a rental place?

Yes

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

"A Tool Shed Rentals" is the only local place I've found that references 3' chain saws. http://atoolshed.com/

Re: Yes

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

More Power! Grunt, grunt grunt!

[finickynarcane.livejournal.com]

If you can get access to a two person cross cut saw, I'd help as the other person to quarter the thing.

THAT would be ideal;

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

all the wood would be usable! None found...

What I really need: (But am not willing to pay $600 and wait a month for:)

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

http://www.motherearthnews.com/library/1979_September_October/The_Crosscut_Saw

2 MAN CROSSCUT BUCKING SAW!

Re: What I really need: (But am not willing to pay $600 and wait a month for:)

[finickynarcane.livejournal.com]

Let me see what I can find in the line of bucking large saws, er, large bucking saws. I have friends with really strange interestes.

Re: What I really need: (But am not willing to pay $600 and wait a month for:)

[collie13.livejournal.com]

You mean aside from learnteach? ;)

Re: What I really need: (But am not willing to pay $600 and wait a month for:)

[finickynarcane.livejournal.com]

Of course. But we all think all of our interests are perfectly normal. As we are - you just need a sufficiently small sample set.

Re: What I really need: (But am not willing to pay $600 and wait a month for:)

[collie13.livejournal.com]

Your pardon; I was just teasing. Your answer was most courteous, though, so thank you.

Re: What I really need: (But am not willing to pay $600 and wait a month for:)

[(Anonymous)]

You guys share some obvious characteristics: Friends of mine, on LJ, female. But you share non-obvious ones: Ballroom dancers, trained as SCA fighters, interest in other cultures.

Still, great observation. In truth, all of us tend to collect these wonderful wierd groups...

Right tool...

[garandman.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of my stump/rootball pulling experience...

lemme know (via email) if you'd like some help. We used some expert digging, and winching to pull out some monster stump/deep taproot ball out from near the garage in order to redo the fenceline.

I have all the winch tools needed. ttys!
-A