I'd GIVE you ours if I could, just to be rid of it. I think it gets about an hour downtime for every hour of run-time.
Some of what I've been up to.
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Metals406
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Great work Andy!! Looks super parked out, and way healthier. 
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Andy, did you get many white pine leave trees on that slope?
We got some white pine here in the Davis Mountains. Be interesting to see if there's any blister rust here. Could be a grad school project
We got some white pine here in the Davis Mountains. Be interesting to see if there's any blister rust here. Could be a grad school project
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Andy, did you get many white pine leave trees on that slope?
We got some white pine here in the Davis Mountains. Be interesting to see if there's any blister rust here. Could be a grad school project
Not a lot. Most that didn't have Blister Rust were about 10' tall or less. Maybe the speces is developing a rust resistant strain.
Andy
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I know you've read this before Andy, but I thought I'd link it here in case some others were interested: The distribution of white pine blister rust in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico
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Not a lot. Most that didn't have Blister Rust were about 10' tall or less. Maybe the speces is developing a rust resistant strain.
Andy
It could be. Natural selection and all that.
Here is another white pine blister rust document, Andy. Focuses on the Southwest.
http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/publications/documents/wp_mgmt_guide.pdf
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redprospector
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Thanks, I like reading these articles, it makes me appear smarter than I actually am.
Andy
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I did a little measuring and calculating last week, and the area in the pictures varries between 40% and 57%. The Fecon is rated to handle 58% so I guess I was ok. Of corse my calculations are all + or - a few percent.
Andy
Appreciate your time to answer the slope question.
About the carrying a quart of oil, you're right, thanks but i'll pass !
In the 'after' photos posted were those the result of single passes with the Fecon ?
Interesting thread.
Thanks, Lee
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Not a problem, I needed to figure it anyway.
I don't have a "mulching door" on the fecon, so no it wasn't a single pass. Some times it does real good in a single pass, some places I ran it over 3 times.
The slopes aren't too bad until you get a little over 1/2 way up. Then you start getting into exposed rock, then it's no fun at all. I haven't been able to make it all the way to the ridge anywhere yet on this slope, but you can't tell from the road.
Andy
Thanks.
From those last couple of photos the ground didn't look like it was chewed very much and the reason for the question. Did the grinder work just as well going upslope as downslope or cross slope ?
From those last couple of photos the ground didn't look like it was chewed very much and the reason for the question. Did the grinder work just as well going upslope as downslope or cross slope ?
Metals406
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Could have been worse Andy. . . You could have had to scrub-out that hillside by hand.
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I think that's when you're making the best time with one of these little grinders. When you keep the cutters out of the dirt you're just grinding wood, get too deep and you're rototilling and grinding. With the single grouser shoes on the tracks the Fecon dosen't spin until I'm in the rocks.
The machine does about as well uphill as downhill. Sometimes when I'm doing the "mulching pass" (dragging the head backward) I'll chase a long stem down the hill, I just leave those and catch them on the way down. Cross slope, or side hill is a different story, since you're going sideways and down hill at the same time.
Gotta be carefull running sidehill, the other day I slid sideways on a big flat rock and hit a stump with the side of the track and wound up leaning up against a tree. That one had a little pucker factor to it.Andy
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Could have been worse Andy. . . You could have had to scrub-out that hillside by hand.
Been there, done that...........Way too many times. One thing I'll say is that working this kind of ground by hand will give you bigger huevos when you crawl on a machine.
Andy
I think that's when you're making the best time with one of these little grinders. When you keep the cutters out of the dirt you're just grinding wood, get too deep and you're rototilling and grinding. With the single grouser shoes on the tracks the Fecon dosen't spin until I'm in the rocks.
The machine does about as well uphill as downhill. Sometimes when I'm doing the "mulching pass" (dragging the head backward) I'll chase a long stem down the hill, I just leave those and catch them on the way down. Cross slope, or side hill is a different story, since you're going sideways and down hill at the same time.
Andy
Appreciate your take on the Fecon.
Maybe some more photos of the work when there's time ?
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Here's some more I took today.
After a while they all start looking alike.
This is where I'm going.
This is where I've been.
Andy
After a while they all start looking alike.
This is where I'm going.
This is where I've been.
Andy
Turkeyslayer
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Nice pics, thanks for sharing
That is some nice-looking work you're doing.
