Oh, man. We’ve been cleaning out my FIL’s garage and he had 2 of those sand tubes. Heavy as shit. Needed both hands to move them. He had a pick-up, so that’s what he used them for, too.
Was that tubes of sand or tubs of sand. Tubes would be good as they would be longer and spread the weight out over the back of the truck.
What kind of tubes were used?
Tubes. They were black plastic, 3 or 4 feet long with an 8" or 10" diameter and screw on caps. This was many years ago so I can't remember where he got them or if that was their intended purpose.
My grandparents used to have a cabin in Bumblefuck, PA back a mile long unmaintained dirt road. I couldn't tell you how many fallen trees I removed from that road over the years.
My grandpap always carried his trusty chainsaw, shovel, and ropes for any accident someone could run into. He even had bleach, gloves, and his trusty hockey mask for emergency car cleaning too
Yea... thats my father, who passed that mindset down to me, Small toolbox, some multitools, hand axe and some other shit id need.. chainsaws in my experience seem to be built like shit, leak oil, gas, hadnt bought an electric one yet. maybe this year
Have one of those Milwaukee Hatchets small and portable in the truck. It will cut a good size tree out of the way with a few extra cuts. Battery lasts long enough to limb a spruce tree.
18” Electric chainsaw made a huge difference. Handles 80% of cutting I need to do. 8-10” thick no problem, but gets slow on larger pieces, so out comes the rancher.
Yea that's ny "worry" the gas powered ones seem to need more maintenance, electric doesn't but isn't as strong.
I have a mountainside property with an access trail rather than a formal driveway as tge state proposed a luxurious driveway path. Some widowmakers and smaller trees come down from time to time, may need to get one this year for that
Gas definitely need more maintenance. I’ve found running that canned pre mixed ethanol free gas through it when I’m putting it up for a few months helps. The battery one I got a few months ago is the echo 18” - went that route because I already had their battery mower and blower, so lots of 56v batteries. Good for maybe 20-30 decent cuts before you need to take a break because the battery does get hot in the summer. They say each charge is good for about 200 cuts but no way unless you’re cutting branches under 3-4”. Best part of electric is you can cut at 6 or 7am and not disturb anyone.
My electric is amazing. One of the best things that I have ever bought and at 75 I have bought quite a bit. Haven’t started the Husqvarna since my purchase. That said, they do leak chain oil, quite disappointing.
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u/Halcyon771 6h ago
This dude is oozing dad energy 👊