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Chris, I broke both ankles just a year apart on that right of way job, and I'm paying for it today. Ouch!

Now you're talking.

The axe, of course. Chopped the roots and tossed the stumps off the ROW. They were small stumps. Most not more than a few inches. Once you know the rooting habit of the species you could get a 3 inch stump out of the ground in about 10 wacks. The tap roots were the hardest to get. Now...

No way around it, Chris, clearing right-of-way is just plain grunt work, but we paced ourselves and had a lot of fun. Friendly competitions: speed climbs, obstacle events, handsaw and chainsaw speed races. We burned during the winters and had hot lunches everyday!

Wasn't in the script, I guess.

When clearing right-of-way we hand chopped stumps quite a bit. Not that big, though. Up to 3 - 4 inches. Only species that re-sprout. Which is most around here. After 6 years of swinging a blade we got damn good at it. The method solved the problems of the stumps suckering back, and then...

Better chain to pull a stump than rope! Now the chain to cut the roots... after that it wouldn't be worthy enough to sharpen.

The parts where he cuts the roots. Oh, my God! Then he says, "I'm going to make video about sharpening chain." Skip through it. It's funny and frightening. He was using chain though to pull the stump. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2_-0g5rsjdk"...