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Warning: a 22 inch silver maple limb pinned my chipper feed tray for 3 hours
Spent most of last Tuesday fighting one stupid limb on a silver maple removal out in a neighborhood off Route 9, and it turned what should've been a 40 minute job into a 3 hour mess. The limb was about 22 inches at the collar and hung out over a fence, so I figured I'd rope it, notch it, and let it drop clean. Well, it didn't drop clean. It swung back on the rope and landed right on the chipper feed tray, bending the hinge pin just enough that the tray wouldn't fold down at all. I messed with that pin for way too long, tried a punch, tried heat, tried beating on it with a deadblow until my shoulder was sore. Turned out the real fix was pulling the whole hinge pin out from the other side with a drift, which took 10 minutes once I figured it out. The part that burned me up is I had the drift in the truck the whole time. So three hours gone over a 10 minute job. Has anyone found a good way to keep the feed tray hinge from getting tweaked when a limb lands on it?
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