On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:41:01 -0400, Goedjn wrote:



Fence pliers good if you've got the hand-strength to work them,
because you can bend and twist with them too, but I've never
seen any with the compound hinge that makes the Knipex so much
fun to cut with.

--Goedjn
I'd use a cutoff grinder.


Yeah, you'd probably use a chainsaw to cut brush, too.
which is a bad idea for many of the same reasons.

Not if you have the proper attachment. There is a guy here in SW Idaho
who came up with a "brush cutting" attachment. It basically looks like
the stationary bar on a sickle bar cutter or a hedge trimmer. It bolts
to the side of the bar. As you know, when cutting brush the tendency
is for the chain to just pull the limbs towards the saw w/o cutting
them, possibly jamming and/or derailing the chain. This attachment's
fingers "catches" the limbs/brush and hold them so the chain can do
it's thing. They showed a video of it, worked about as good a regular
hedge trimmer.

DJ