New to me tree saw

[b116757]

I picked up a DFM LT Turbo Saw this afternoon near new condition it’s a 2021 model I gave $2900 the new ones I’ve seen online are selling at $5500 I’m tickled to have it.

 

[Bill]

Nice! I want one

 

[b116757]

Got it home and took down a smaller yard tree that I had planted several years ago that died last winter. Works pretty slick I’m looking forward to pasture clearing with it.

 

[bigboreblr]

I could make some trouble with that thing........

Post a video of it iin action. Been numerous folks here complaining about too much small brush.

 

[b116757]

We loaded a trailer load of scrape metal mostly old barb wire and t-posts the other day and we brought the tractor over to that farm to help with the scrap cleanup afterwords I took the saw out and cut down maybe 20-30 eastern red cedars in maybe as many minutes really I like this thing quite a bit so far. Didn’t cut anything bigger than about 12’ most at about 6’-8’ tomorrow if I get left alone I’ll likely hit another patch of ERC I want gone.

 

[Turkish]

I picked up a DFM LT Turbo Saw this afternoon near new condition it’s a 2021 model I gave $2900 the new ones I’ve seen online are selling at $5500 I’m tickled to have it.

Awesome looking implement. How does that respond if you were to get into too big of a tree? Does it stall the tractor?

I know the big ones the loggers use just stall the hydraulic system and they have to give it a few seconds to build pressure again if it doesn’t make it all the way thru the tree.

 

[Westwind]

That is spectacular. Didn’t know there was such a thing.

 

[b116757]

I tackled about 15’ ERC and it has a slip clutch in the driveline in case the blade it pinched badly. I really wouldn’t care to even try anything bigger than that. I bought it to clear mostly smaller trees under about 10’ so far I like it a lot on elm, locust and Osage orange will require two people one to cut and one to treat the stumps. One guy could do it but it’s actually pretty easy to loose stumps I tried it at the house with about 3-4 Osage and was lucky to find the stumps to treat them after only cutting that many down. So either I will cut and one of my boys will treat or vice versa the boys can cut and I’ll treat the stumps.

 

[b116757]

Had my middle boy run the saw for about three hours today we cut a lot of trees down in that amount of time works very well with a ground man to treat the stumps immediately after the cut it made went through close to 3 quarts of Tordon RTU.

 

[b116757]

We have cut a lot of trees down with that little saw so far I’d say about 35ish acres of pasture. We are hitting ERC, Osage Orange, Honey Locust and a few Siberian Elm. Today we worked an area that had a lot of honey locust I had no intent on cut them all down just to many trees for that and getting almost to large for the saw in many cases so we just focused on cutting the heavy bean producers. I’ve been leaving any persimmon and native plums we come across for the most part I will be thinning some of my plum thickets but I have one large thicket that I need some roads cut threw it to get around better. I have a track loader on that farm and can use it also but in the pastures where the trees are spread around being able to cut the stump off flush with the ground with minimal soil disturbance and get a good chemical treatment on the stump is quite nice also. I had sort of considered selling the saw when I finished my pasture clearing but this thing is pretty handy I’ll likely just keep it. One of these on the skid loader would be the bomb diggity having everything right in front of you.