Well, the Job has really taken off!
Were now running The Honda, Swapping between 3 Different brush cutter blades, the pole saw, pole hedge trimmer, and 2 different lines on the line head.
As well as a backpack brush cutter running the Carbide tip blades, Hedge trimmer, a 12" chainsaw, 18" Husqvarna chainsaw, Generator, sanders, drills, saws and routers, a Victa Utility, a blower, and a 3.5 metre tube blower.
The blackberries are halfway through, the fences are down at the front, one side of the house is cleared back to lawn, as is the front, half the remaining side, and half the back paddock!
it's been a heck of a task so far, the easy parts being the hip high scrub in the back paddock, ranging right up to the hardest being the 2.5 metre high blackberry mass, which contains a banksia that needs to be saved!
The tools are up against it, so far in amongst the scrub we have encountered fencing wire, bricks, bottles, corrugated roofing sheets, a park bench, a combustion stove, pots, posts, and timber panels, which have killed two of the carbide blades for the brush cutter, one of the steel blades, one line head, a guard, the drive shaft of my Husqvarna 25r brush cutter, and required regular reshaping of the hedge trimmers tines.
It's also upset the little 12" Ozito chainsaw a fair bit, nocked the chain off the pole saw and destroyed a mower blade!
but were through the thickest of it now, so hopefully there won't be too many more casualties!
Photo's of the work to come, and of the tools in use, as well as a full review of the equipment at the end.
So far I can say I have been exceptionally impressed with the Honda 4-stroke brush cutter, the Husqvarna 359 Chainsaw, and the Carbide tip brush cutter blades, as well as the 1976 Victa 2-stroke Utility (but I was already aware of how much it could take on)
The Ozito chainsaw is starting to show some problems, it's needing a lot of regular chain adjustment, and the oil feed is not working all that well, but that's not too surprising for a $120 bunnings china chainsaw, and the hedge trimmer guard tines are a little flimsy, but then again I'm taking a Chinese hedge trimmer from magnet mart (Rok Brand) and using it to take on roses and blackberries that go well over my head, and have some stems an inch thick, so it's working well above it's pay grade, and not doing too bad.
The Hedge trimmer was purposefully chosen as a Cheepie, as it is being used for a task it was not really intended for, and I expect it to take a substantial beating, hoping only that it will last till the end of the Job, knowing it was going to most likely end up sacrificial, due to the nature of the job, I would rather kill off the Cheepie than something decent, however it has been surprisingly robust in the face of it all so far!
