Chainsaw keeps gumming up and I was told there is a disc blade tool that works better, but I can't find what it is called. Anybody know where I can get this mythical tool?

Hope you're not in Travis county. Cutting down a cedar there is a capital felony. Automatic death penalty.

Find some cedar choppers
Pay them in booze and overalls to chop cedars.

Those days are long gone. Cheaper do do it myself than pay some laborers the $150-$200 day rate.

WC,

I've seen those saw blade attachments for heavy-duty weed trimmers, and even have used one in the past, but I found it much slower than using a chainsaw.

Here's a couple of things that might improve things for you:

1. If you can adjust the amount of oil feed on your auto oiler, increase it.

2. If not, try taking along a spray can of silicone lubricant and periodically give the bar and chain a spray down.

Will those help? Honestly, I don't know. I've cut up cedar before, but I don't recall having any particular issues with gumming.

We had a brush clearing saw, which is very effective, very tiring, and quite dangerous.

What I want is some way to have a log splitter hooked up to the front of the tractor, and the chipper set up on the back...

use fire

I've never had trouble with my chainsaw gumming up while cutting cedar. It will dull the chain very fast though. I don't know what kind of chainsaw you have but might want to invest in a better chainsaw like a Stihl with a 20 inch bar or bigger. And buy extra chains.

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I've never had trouble with my chainsaw gumming up while cutting cedar. It will dull the chain very fast though. I don't know what kind of chainsaw you have but might want to invest in a better chainsaw like a Stihl with a 20 inch bar or bigger. And buy extra chains.

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And keep them sharp with one of these:

EskimoJoe said:

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use fire

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The cheapest and most effective.

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Find some cedar choppers
Pay them in booze and overalls to chop cedars.

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Is this still funny? Making light of hard working people who cleared an invasive plant from an area of our state that's now over run with 1.5 acre ranches and folks who post on message boards about which sunglasses to buy and whether cargo shorts are acceptable attire?

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Find some cedar choppers
Pay them in booze and overalls to chop cedars.

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Is this still funny? Making light of hard working people who cleared an invasive plant from an area of our state that's now over run with 1.5 acre ranches and folks who post on message boards about which sunglasses to buy and whether cargo shorts are acceptable attire?

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Did you just come back from the Oscars? That's a lot of misinformed SJW-grandstanding in that post.

Cedar is a native tree, not invasive

"Cedar Chopper" is a reference equivalent to "hillbilly" referring to people who used to live in the woods of the hill country before it became expensive real estate. There was nothing noble about them, nor do they still really exist.

And this message board is the greatest place on the virtual planet.

Ragoo said:

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Find some cedar choppers
Pay them in booze and overalls to chop cedars.

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To flesh this out a little more, go to the Casa Falcon Restaurant in Camp Wood, Texas and ask them where the Home Depot is and explain that you're looking to hire some cedar whackers for day work. Be sure to speak loudly, as some of the customers may be eager to speak with you about your request.

How big are we talking about? I got a pair of loppers at Tractor Supply not long ago that are da bomb! I was able to take on some cedar that was 1 - 1 1/2 in. For my fence clearing it left me with very few to chase with the chainsaw. They were around $70

Sign up for "The Big Event" ?

Just permanently block him. Only poster on the OB I've ever blocked. He was banned a month or so ago, we thought for good. IIRC, he made some sort of disparaging remark when another poster started a thread about the loss of a pet. Apparently he's out of the big house and back trolling away.

We had one on our deer lease. it was like a 15 in saw blade with a chain saw ish edge. we ran it on an old straight shaft echo. it could level a 6 inch cedar in about 8 to 10 seconds.

We called it The Whirling Blade of Death.

Check out forester chain saw tooth brush blade on amazon.

My Grampa chopped Cedar to get money for taking my Grandma to the movies when they were courting. That means, I resulted down the line. I am very proud of his efforts around here, as eventually he helped get Cedar Park incorporated into a City, with him signing on the charter. That, and many other efforts of his, resulted in a lot of pride in the community for my family. Neither he, nor I, was/are real concerned about what someone on the internet thinks, or what kind of disparaging remarks they make about Cedar Choppers. You know what they say about opinions!

If you have a lot of Cedars, they make an implement for the front of a bobcat, that is hell on them, I believe. I would have to research it, but my cousin has a land clearing business in the Cedar Park area, and I can ask him for advice for you, if that is of interest.

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Cedar is a native tree, not invasive

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Point to the sentence where I said the Ashe juniper isn't native?


Invasive:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-war-on-cedar/amp/

https://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2014/01/08/how-hill-country-grazing-led-to-cedar-fever-in-texas/

Natives can be invasive when human use of the land changes it.

Don't be obtuse.

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There was nothing noble about them

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So there's nothing noble in scratching out a hard earned living off the land?

Noted. Bitter old Man. Spoiled and entitled.

I have a hydraulic shear for my skid steer that will handle that will go cut 17" diameter. Makes short work of cedar. They do have an attachment for a high flow machine that will just pulverize the cedars into mulch. But for a bunch of small cedars a chainsaw still works as good as anything.

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Hope you're not in Travis county. Cutting down a cedar there is a capital felony. Automatic death penalty.

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Where does the sarcasm behind this come from? I'm pretty sure those hills by lake Austin weren't full of junipers before cattle grazing.

I use this combo for cedar. Works well for 3" or less, slices like butter and is nearly instantaneous. 3"-5" is a bit more dangerous but it'll cut it. Kickback is noticeable and dangerous until you learn how to correctly cut and swing the blade. Rocks and dirt suck hence why I recommend the 100t blade over less teeth. I've broken way too many teeth but at least there are plenty on it. Also I prefer the larger diameter blade as lower throttle provides more blade velocity, no need to run WOT and wear out the motor.

https://m.stihlusa.com/products/trimmers-and-brushcutters/professional-trimmers/fs131r/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EOHM1NO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_0hIqEbBT0E4KR

Cash is a loud and constant complainer on the Austin forum. He should move to another city.

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Just permanently block him. Only poster on the OB I've ever blocked. He was banned a month or so ago, we thought for good. IIRC, he made some sort of disparaging remark when another poster started a thread about the loss of a pet. Apparently he's out of the big house and back trolling away.

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Believe me, I'm not insulted by some goober who gets their "facts" from Texas Monthly.

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Martin Cash said:

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Hope you're not in Travis county. Cutting down a cedar there is a capital felony. Automatic death penalty.

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Where does the sarcasm behind this come from? I'm pretty sure those hills by lake Austin weren't full of junipers before cattle grazing.

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It comes from Travis County making it a crime to cut down a cedar because there may be a bird or a bug in it. Westlake Hills had an ordinance, and it may still be there, that if a cedar tree on your property dies, you have to replace it with a new one, and if you don't, you get fined. People got fined after the drought of 2009-2011 for not replacing their dead cedars.

Ok, boomer.

Travis county does not have a tree ordinance. Austin does at 19 inches or greater in diameter. That would exclude almost all cedars. The county does have some endangered. Off species that use cedars but they have quite a bit of preserves to account for them.

PFG be like....

False. I think you meant Bitter Old Man. One link to a Texas Monthly article and gasp, send me back to California and vote for Bernie. Lol.

Nope... definitely you. He didn't say anything wrong. You came trolling looking for a fight. Doesn't take much research to see that's a pattern for you.

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Travis county does not have a tree ordinance. Austin does at 19 inches or greater in diameter. That would exclude almost all cedars. The county does have some endangered. Off species that use cedars but they have quite a bit of preserves to account for them.

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Austin actually starts at 8-inches and larger. Cedars, hackberry's etc, are now part of the urban forest so that the trees can be diverse.

Hackberrys are da debil