[SEL] Widowmaker

[Elden DuRand]

 Ron:

Speaking of Gravelys, I had a couple of 'em for several years a while back.  Good, long lived  tractors if used within their capabilities.  I've always wondered how well the chainsaw attachment worked.  Do you know.  It'd seem to me that it would be good as a buck saw.

Never wanted to use the circular saw attachment.  I'da prolly killed myself with it!

Take care - Elden

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> I saw one sell at a farm auction a few years 
> back.  The seller had only one 
> leg.  The other had been removed by a saw like 
> this.  He told me he was cutting 
> brush with the sawblade while on a slope and the 
> machine snagged instead of 
> cut the brush, rotated and cut off one of his 
> legs.  His grandson was with him 
> and saved his life by tying off the stump with a 
> belt.  He made no mention of 
> being wasted, just stupid.
> I think the message is to not use sawblades on 
> brush.  If he had had a 
> Gravely, and been seated on a sulky behind it, 
> the Gravely can't turn 180 degrees 
> and he would have been safe.  Of course, if he 
> had had a Gravely, he would have 
> been using the bush hog and been finished and 
> home by lunch time.
>  
> Ron