Andy ordered it in 2020 but it didn’t work as well as we had hoped because it needed a special high-altitude jet. It was an adventure (took over a year) to get one ordered and then installed. But it works fine.
Here are two pictures from last year:
And here’s a video of Torben using it.
It’s nice when something works. We don’t take that for granted.
July 17, 2022
Hopefully it will make fast work of a hard job.
It’s a lot faster than doing it by hand.
Down the road from us this past week, someone brought goats in to eat all the brush. And I have to say, these natural land managers did a pretty good job reaching some areas that I know machines or a person would have had a hard time getting to.
I’ve heard that some organizations rent out goats and other animals to keep the vegetation down. It sounds like a great idea. We would be happy to pay for that if it were available here.
Not to be a smart a$$, but …you all really have your work cut out for you!!
Keeping the defensible space clear is a lot of work when we get some moisture.
It may work well but it looks like a monster to operate.
Andy says right now he can do it for about an hour, but that will get shorter and shorter as time goes on.
What an ordeal! At least that’s a far more pleasant environment v. having to work your biceps in some sweaty gym.
Crazy that high-altitude adaptors aren’t more readily available.
It was a mixup at the place that makes them. They have them but don’t have their number in their system. I was lucky to find a dealer that was willing to push to get us one.
Yep, it works as does Torben! good job. I sat looking at your mountain top and the trees both dead and live and all the weeds and wondered just how people took care of your mountain top, say in 1862 or even 1962… no big weed eaters then.. now i wonder if anyone lived on your mountain back then
The place was covered with trees, no attempts at defensible spaces.
Andy is surely busy remembering things that worked through to finding things that he can safely use now…
Yes. 🙂