Full skip semi-chisel? Gettin paid to cut stumps.

[OlympicYJ]

Personally I'd go with the 404. All the old fallers swear by it durability wise. Shoot you may like it so much you stick with it for falling. Supposed to last a long time in gritty conditions and something about that wider kerf helps with pinching or something, I forget exactly what the other benefits are. Set chokers on a park job with an AK faller. He said he used the carbide stuff down on a river delta where grit got blown into the bark. Worked good but you wore the chain out before the cutters were used up. I've stumped a few doug fir and spurce rounds. 372 32" 3/8 full skip pulled okay, just couldn't keep a nice strait cut. Was trying for an extra round of firewood out of it.

 

[imagineero]

This thread I started a couple years back contains my long term review of stihl's RDR chain and my impressions of it for cutting funky stuff. Unfortunately most of the meat of the review was photos which are all gone but the reading may still be worthwhile.

http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/long-term-stihl-rdr-carbide-chain-review.188237/

 

[madhatte]

Looks like we may be in the market for a stump grinder all of a sudden. Funny how I knew off the top of my head what kind of machine to get and how fast it works. Almost like I was thinking about it ahead of time or something.

 

[paccity]

if clearance is not a prob you can get larger machines. mine is 60hp oil burner. on the remote control machines they make a 100hp model same thing as mine but physically bigger . benefits are you can take a walk while you work and if you take a spill with it at least your not on the machine. on anything like this hp is your friend. get a hold of me sometime and you can demo mine. check out carltons site they have some bigger machines , it's only money.

 

[madhatte]

Gub'mint money, gonna let the pencil pushers work this one out. I just hope they come up with something that will work as well on prairie margins as it does inside the fence.