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Currently cutting a road choked with 3-6 inch diameter alders, which are too big for my brush cutter head.
Alder brush fans out in all sorts of directions and are aweful to cut. All sorts of smaller brush as well. It's awful. It'll seize your nose sprocket. Other times, the brush will jam up your rim sprocket and throw your chain.
For this bullsht I'm running a spur sprocket and this DPX chain, chain tension absurdly tight. Only threw a chain twice in 8 hours cutting. This is some sort of record, least amount of chain throws for my alder cutting over the years. I think the spur sprocket helps, but so does those safety chain drivelinks.
I've hit dirt occasionally, even glanced off a quartz rock. That dmn chain just keeps mowing down alders, even dull!
This same chain cut up whole frozen cows all winter, bone and all. I feed whole cows to my dog team of Alaskan Malamutes.
Anyhow, dmn good chain for dirty jobs. The extra layers of chrome on the teeth was a great idea.
Alder brush fans out in all sorts of directions and are aweful to cut. All sorts of smaller brush as well. It's awful. It'll seize your nose sprocket. Other times, the brush will jam up your rim sprocket and throw your chain.
For this bullsht I'm running a spur sprocket and this DPX chain, chain tension absurdly tight. Only threw a chain twice in 8 hours cutting. This is some sort of record, least amount of chain throws for my alder cutting over the years. I think the spur sprocket helps, but so does those safety chain drivelinks.
I've hit dirt occasionally, even glanced off a quartz rock. That dmn chain just keeps mowing down alders, even dull!
This same chain cut up whole frozen cows all winter, bone and all. I feed whole cows to my dog team of Alaskan Malamutes.
Anyhow, dmn good chain for dirty jobs. The extra layers of chrome on the teeth was a great idea.
