Hackberry is one of the worst to much!

[Texas jerry]

I posted a couple of weeks ago about new mulcher heads. I went ahead and purchased the fecon 7460. So far I have been happy. One of the first jobs I did with it was a fence line with a lot of standing dead and alive hackberry. The fecon preformed well, i will definently be buying a mulcher door bc the fecon throws mulched material ALOT further than my tush Hogg head. Anyhow I just completed another job that consisted of multiple large bull dozed piles primerly all hackberry. I grappled the piles apart then mulched. I must have gotten the fecon head jammed half a dozen times, once I had to cut the limb out with chainsaw. I have noticed shorter hackberry logs less than @ 4' with enter the mulch head and bind it down. It happens more frequent on the fecon vs tush Hogg due to how much Clarence is between mulcher drum and shroud. I use a carbide tooth which causes the tooth to almost bounce rather than mulch. I have done numerous hackberry jobs and have came to the conclusion heckberry trees are the devil.

 

[tonyoz]

The easiest way of clearing a jammed head is to put it on the ground or a log,turn the mulcher off and drive backwards. If it is more server than that I rap a chain around the rotor so that it will rotate backwards,hook the other end onto something solid then quitely drive the machine backwards. I have cleared wire rope, fence wire, thick vines and big chuncks of timber using this method,no worries.
Just a tip:thumbsup:

 

[Texas jerry]

I have done that method of turning hydraulics to high flow off and dragging mulcher wheel on ground or exen on tree or stump to free jam. I have heard of wrapping chain but have not actually done it. I will defiantly need to try it next time. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[laurelrun]

Totally agree. I bucked up and split some hackberry mixed in with other trees i was clearing after ice storm damage once. Now, it can rot where it lays, far as I'm concerned.

 

[SandburRanch]

OH, but it steam bends so good.

But I'll never cut it with my band saw again. Bout never got all the sticky juice residue off the blade and tires.

 

[Texas jerry]

Ha ha I was thinking the same thing. Leave it to rot, but I finally finished after a lot of grief.

Do you make furniture out of the hackberry?

 

[SandburRanch]

Ha ha I was thinking the same thing. Leave it to rot, but I finally finished after a lot of grief.

Do you make furniture out of the hackberry?

No, I'm not a furniture maker although I've made some pieces over the years like a gun cabinet, small tables, and head boards etc.

That pictured was a test piece (first attempt at bending) from a tree in a fence line that needed to be removed. I do have two forms built to bend old high chair arms for a restore as soon as I cut down the elm tree. I'd rather have white oak but I don't have that available.