well welcome back to Steve Roth reviews and welcome to Northern Ontario it's the fall up
here it's September and I'm gonna start using my brush cutter this is my hundred twenty two
renegade blade I'll give you a close look at this baby here guys tell you what that's a lot
of teeth and that's what you need when you're cutting the stuff that I'm cutting I'm going to
show you here in a couple of minutes but I use one of these blades a year and I do a lot of
cutting on the bench here I have my uh my still FS 240 and it is just a beast so what I'm going
to do is I'm going to take the grass cutting head off and I'm gonna mount this on and it's
very simple that's just the nut okay so you got this piece this piece and the nut fell on the
floor and it's easy it's just mounting it on and away we go I'm gonna show you some of the
stuff that I cut I'm gonna show you tag altars in Northern Ontario and they are a pain to deal
with because they just grow back every time you cut them so I'm gonna show you a couple of spots
here that I have to do and one of my trail going into the bush I got a trail that goes
back five eighths of a mile and I have to trim that every year so let's get to it right now
well here we go right here this is the spot that I'm going to start it off right here I'm gonna
give you an idea of what I'm doing I'll take you off the tripod and I'll show you what I'm gonna
accomplish probably five minutes well as you can see right here we'll just go for a little
walk here I've get my rotary cutter and I cut all this out here and I was left with this bunch of
slash in here and guys these are tag altars these things here and they are just like a weed growing
up like you wouldn't believe so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take these out this morning and that
spruce tree right there and then we're going to head down on my trail and I'll show you the tag
altars that I've been coming across my trail and I got to zip them off so let's get to it right now
there we go what was that maybe two minutes now let's take down that tree over there
okay you know what I'm gonna show you the stop and see how big that tree actually was well there it
is right there guys and it's a good five inches across yeah five inches across guys and that took
me what less than thirty seconds so let's move on to down here and let's get this straightened out
right now well here we are right here and as you can see it's it's pretty wet in here so I
got a kind of just trim this out all in through here and here's some tag altars and they will
some of the branches are way in there and they will crawl over for sunlight so I'm gonna buzz
that all off and open this up so the sunlight can get in there like you say it takes faster
faster coming down it's a lot of work getting rid of all on branches so let's get to her
well guys what do you think that's real time I'm guessing maybe seven minutes maybe eight
minutes tops I'm going to clean this all up bring it back let you take a look see what
it looks like after well here we go right here is that a huge improvement or what now I still
have some more trimming to do and what I like to do is is cut about a foot from the base as
you can see over these ones here yeah see how I've left them all sitting up high and that's
only because I don't know what's underneath that so I got a buzz this branch off here I got a buzz
out one there I'll clean up this little bit of a roll here as I go along the trail but yeah you
can see the type of timber it's cutting down and there's there's a nice seven-inch er right there
guys the blade is the way to go now I could use my pole saw but you know what it's hard to get in
there with anything really pole saw would work good too but since I'm doing all this slash up
in here and I'll continue up there and just kind of widen it out a bit and hopefully the sunlight
will get in here and dry this up but what I'll do is I take you back to the to the shop and
I'll let you know what I use to clean these blades with well what do you think I tell you
what I'd be lost without that that brush cutter and the carbide tip blade it just makes life so
much easier and like I said I'll go back there and clean everything up and in the field there
where I showed I took down the tree in that well I'm gonna go back there and just buzz
everything off low to the ground the last thing you want to do is leave them tangled or sticking
up especially if they got a little bit of a point on them well they'll take out your ATV tires your
tractor tires they'll take out everything so but what do I use to clean these plates with after
each day that I use the brush cutter blade I come back and I use easy-off oven cleaner
are just a generic brand oven cleaner they just spray it on let it sit there for about maybe 20
minutes and I just hose it off and it's a good as new now when you're cutting down spruce and these
tag alters it's very gummy and it will just gum up your blade and it'll make it feel like it's
dull and all you have to do she's use the easy off and clean it up in my experience that's what
I've been using and guys I'll tell you what it's sixty degrees out here today and I'm sweating like
you wouldn't believe it's a little too hot to be doing this type of work in the bush but yeah it's
warm this time of year and now usually it's about sitting right now I'm freezing thanks for joining
me here today and I hope you like this a little bit of a demonstration on what you can do with
a brush cutter so thanks for joining me here and come back again let's have some more fun Cheers
you