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No. I'm saying it doesn't really bother me. I don't believe you've ever heard me say anything like that anyway.

How about conservative knife owners/sellers?


More Bitching

If you are going to buy one.......buy the biggest, meanest chipper your budget will suffer.

Those little tin jobs with a 5 horse Briggs will not chip faster than river can will grow.

For about $100 I can have a guy show up here with a small bulldozer and take care of something like that in no time. Not nearly as enjoyable as spending $1500 on a wood chipper, but much better allocation of money.

YMMV

Yeah,....I'm looking at 10 HP and up models.

For the record, I still think you are taking the piss.

Yeah,...but then I'd have a moonscape there,...*and* a dozer pile to deal with.

I want to keep my acre of scrub timber, I just don't want it to turn into 5 acres.

A call for simple civility is completely lost on this crowd. They can't help but make it personal.

The truth is, I left once before for exactly the same reason, but it's even worse now than it was then. I came back for the Savage Collectors forum and the few good threads that enrich a persons life. Where else can a person get Bristoe but on the campfire? Sadly, those threads are fewer and fewer, while personal insults and attacks are more and more. I get insulted daily and normally choose to ignore it. The point is, it's not about me, that's a false argument. It's about the campfire.

I still post on my hunts, or other this and that's, as do others. I try to contribute on blacktail deer, bear hunting, and Savages. normally with photos and a storyline for fun reading. Plenty of back and forth on the Savage forum and I've taken some good-hearted ribbing and even some vitriol for my Savage project rifles. Greg just slammed me above for it in fact. So what, that's not what I'm talking about. Those are what makes the campfire enjoyable, and that's why I'm here, same as most others.

But ask yourself if the people that spend an inordinate amount of time attacking other people are here for the same reason. Let me know what you come up with.

That won't be as bad as chipping tree limbs, especially dead wood.

He'd better live next door, not many machine operators are loading a machine on a trailer, hauling it down the road, off loading it...much less starting the machine/fuel usage, and running it for $100 ?

Here it's a minimum $400 charge, unless you have a friend with a machine...then it's $600 + free lunch and beer.

No, not at all.

I love you, but you're that city guy that moves to the country and all the locals say 'WTF is that dude doing now', whilst shaking their heads

No,...as far as chipping goes, it's not going to be one of the tougher jobs.

I worked on the road dept back when I was fresh out of high school. They had some of those monster chippers for chipping up roadside clearing.

Chucking logs into one of them things all day was bad duty.

Bristoe, I cant remember.....do you have a little tractor with a PTO?



Over the years we have had good luck with DR brand products. They have a line of chippers.


There are also used machines that Tree Service companies use. Often times the used models can be had for under 3 grand...if its old and small.

Ask yourself why that matters so much to you.

He does, about 2 miles. I had 2 houses on my property when we bought it. The other house was about 750 square feet. I paid $800 for that to be torn down with an escavator, then loaded into a dumb truck and hauled off. It took about 5 trips with his truck to haul it all off.

Nah. My neighbors know I'm a good guy already. None of them have dozer piles on their property either. They understand why someone wouldn't want a dozer to come flogging through a pristine piece of Bluegrass horse country.

Ok, sounds like you got it all figured out.

No,...I'd sure like to, but the budget is fairly strained at the moment.