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15-10-2009, 04:16 PM
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| | | Re: Brushcutters any advice?
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Originally Posted by APC  If you have thicker material to get through, maybe consider a clearing saw. I would always recommend Stihl but that is what I am used to.
If you are happy to cut down woody stuff by hand, then I would recommend a Stihl FS450 as a minimum for doing the job efficiently. | at work we have the FS400 and FS350 (though i am selling the 350s off and replacing them with new 400s which have the more efficent 4 mix engine) and we use both of these with clearing saw blades as well as the 3 point brush knife.
we used to have two FS280s as well but i sold those last year (in fact i bought one myself for personal use) as they are fine for garden use but they dont have the vibration absorbtion system found on higher rated ones and thus arent insurable for proffesional use for more than 90 mins at a stretch
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15-10-2009, 06:00 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Coast, UK, nr Dorchester
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| | | Re: Brushcutters any advice?
I've used a Stihl for 8 years now and would highly recommend the make.
For one acre field I get in a local farmer with a topper. Five acres? |
15-10-2009, 06:33 PM
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| | | Re: Brushcutters any advice?
Stihl for me too - I find Huskys a bit awkward and unbalanced compared to the Stihls. |
15-10-2009, 06:57 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bandit country between Offa's Dyke and Welsh border
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| | | Re: Brushcutters any advice?
3 acres of brushcutting sounds like a lot of work for one person. Might be cheaper and easier to ask your neighbouring farmer to take a tractor and topper or flail over it then look to your ongoing management (grazing/haycutting etc). |
16-10-2009, 09:50 AM
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| | | Re: Brushcutters any advice?
1 acre field cost £30 cash to top.
Coincidentally 160m of hedgerow alongside road cost £30 cash to flail (different farmer).
Jobs that size are just to big to be manageable by one man and a hand-held machine. | | | |
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