Richard, your video of that feller-buncher is a example of how times have changed-
My dad didn't own a chainsaw. He would hire a cousin to drop a few trees with a chainsaw, but dad limbed them up with an ax. We had a buzz saw for the 8N to cut firewood. A maul and a wedge to split the big rounds. Boys stacked wood and piled brush.
Dad cleared brush with a double bit ax-one side was kinda dull that chopped into the dirt, the sharp bit would shave hair. And woe be to him that put the wrong bit of Dad's ax into the dirt!
I moved up to a chainsaw early on, the tree shear 25 years ago, then a tractor with an air-conditioned cab about 20 years ago.
A/C, MFWD and shuttle shift tractor in 2007. It's not really work anymore!
