My place is in northeast ar and has been hit pretty hard by Ice storm. I don't figure to have power for at least a month. I have a lot of tree limbs on the ground. The big ones I will pick up with loader and put on brush pile. The smaller ones and there are a bunch I don't know how to pick them up and get to burn pile. If push comes to shove I will take finish mower and use it to chop them up. And ideas would be welcome. I will post picture of damage next post. big dan
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Egon
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Looks ugly. Chances are perseverance and one little area at a time and it will get done.
Is the Allis Chalmers B tractor used much?
Is the Allis Chalmers B tractor used much?
LBrown59
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Wow //Guess I can't complain about The 12 or so 2 3 and 4 inch limbs the ice broke off one of my big pine trees nor the 5 hour power outage the ice storm caused.
Looks like you've racked yourself up some future seat time.
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Treemonkey1000
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Wrap a chain around several of the bigger branches and drag across the small stuff to scrape up into piles. I think JJ's idea would be more efficient.
rox
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oldhippy, my oh my you are really hit bad. I have been reading the news stories about the storm but your pics bring it into reality for me. Well you could so what my husband and I do and it sounds much worse that it really is. We prune 1,300 olive trees and as you can imagine we have it seems like acers of small branches. We simply take a big plastic 10' x 12' tarp we throw the branches ont he tarp and grab two corners and pull them up on our shoulder adn drag them to the burn pile. Like I said it sounds like a lot fo work but it is not bad at all. It does give me some good excercize. I suppose you could drag he tarp behind the tractor but we don't we jsut drag it. My husband mans the fire and I drag the tarps to him. You can ge a LOT done in one day and the investment is very low. Sure the tarps get ripped up but we still use them even ripped and when they are really bad just throw them away. We go though maybe two per year during prunning season.
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I have one of those 3PT Bearcat chipper/shredders, with blower attachments, and it turns limbs and pine needles into sawdust, depending on the grate installed. It will handle up to 4 in. Those Vermeer units work quite well.
Thanks for the replies. J J I am going to borrow a landscape rake from a guy that I work with. I will burn all limbs in the spring after the grass turns green to reduce the chance of spreading fire. We are pretty lucky that there very few people hurt by this ice. They are starting to get some of the stores and gas stations open with generators.
Egon the Allis B is kind of retired. Runs great as does the WD that is a old family tractor.
rox hearing about dragging those limbs makes my arms ache but it does get the job done.
Once again thanks for all the great replies. big dan
Egon the Allis B is kind of retired. Runs great as does the WD that is a old family tractor.
rox hearing about dragging those limbs makes my arms ache but it does get the job done.
Once again thanks for all the great replies. big dan
