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SeanKroll said:
I've wondered about jam protection.

I didn't feed it max sized chunks our of concern for jamming.
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Don’t worry about maxing it out, you can do it all day (as I did today as a matter of fact) stress control will deal with it.

It can happen if you turn it off before it’s emptied the chamber, because the wheel stops quickly (direct drive) a small piece can drop between the anvil and the blade.
It can happen once a year or never, but I once took the dog for a walk leaving the men to chip up a birch and they tried to start it for fifteen minutes, next day the flywheel bearings collapsed.
 
A Vermeer 1000 will jam often enough. I haven't found the exact pattern as to why. The worst was when, due to it's stupid design, someone simultaneously throttled it up and disengaged the clutch, and somehow the feed wheels were still working, ramming a branch into the freewheeling drum. That was a mess to clear.
 
I talked to another biz owner this morning. His BC900 is only 35 hp.

59 HP does a lot with hand feeding without autofeed engaging.
I'm only familiar with 25hp and 35hp rentals from a handful of occasions.
 
Fun time today. Got a call two weeks ago about an uprooted pine hung in another one. Fair size pine…over 90’ tall. I set a 5/8” Stable Braid line in it and ran it over the primary and anchored off with a 2:1 to the base of a large oak. Used the Ram to lift it enough that I knew it wasn’t resting in the other pine. Then went up and just started whittling away at it. Once I got down to my guy line, I dropped on down and set another one a bit lower, which I had to route between the primary and ground wire to the base of the same oak. Then went back up and blocked it down to the lower line. I eased off the tension and the root ball held it there so I was able to fell it without having to go up again.

IMG_3940.jpeg IMG_3937.jpeg
 
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I forgot to mention that I had side guys on it as well, just in case that once I got to the top and cut the last limbs loose, the root ball wasn’t secure enough to prevent lateral movement. If it swung to the right, I’d have been riding toward the power line, and to the left, a 20’-30’ swing to crash into a neighboring pine. Neither a desirable outcome. I felt several small shifts as I cut the last few limbs loose, but nothing dramatic. It’s hard to tell from the first pic, but that main guy line is about 64’ from the base of the trunk, measured along its spine. I was thinking it was more like 50’, but I descended on my 120’ climb line from the fork the guy is in, and ran out several feet
 
Since I don’t climb, I was gonna ask if it could have been pulled up a bit and then flopped to the side, you answered 🤙🏻
 
Here’s a couple of pics from Google street view from a while back, the first to show it’s height, the second to show it was only 8’-10’ from the primary (before being blown over). I’m surprised the power company hadn’t already cut it, as they have a 15’ ROW easement, though they often bend that in “yard” situations.

FWIW…I use Google images a good bit to plan my approach to a job. IMG_3942.png IMG_3943.png
 
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