They stare at that too 
and my friend (i dump my brush at his place for his May-fire) has forbidden me to drive my steel-tracked vehicle on his lawn… 
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We just have to rename your vehicle to Saint Walpurga. How could he deny a honored saint?
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[quote=“Sean Omalley, post:3891, topic:220, username:madflower69”]
Saint Walpurga
25 February: Saint Walpurga (Walburga), Abbess
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Is there such a thing as a walk behind tree shear or feller buncher? Maybe something like a DR walk behind trimmer with a blade or some such?
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How do you call a thing like this?
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I don’t know. I doubt we’d have such a thing in the US. We’d buy a mini excavator and add the tree shear to it. Or we’d get propane. But what if you were a peasant, old with bad knees, and still needed firewood? What if you could walk all day but not bend over very well? What if you had thousands of 3" or smaller trees to thin? I thought it might be a European problem that already has a solution.
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According to Goran there is a solution. And I like the solution and can create a problem this way.
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I’ve never heard of Saint Walpurga, maybe if i name it Saint Birgitta? She lived in this county in the 1300s something.
No, i think it has to be named timber-bear in future also, to not offend any saints. (If a track slips the wheels, a selection of swearing and curses are often needed, not to mention what my friend would say, if i make a 360° “centrum-turn” on his lawn…)
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Hi Bruce, i don’t know if this is like what you mean with walk-behind?
This is an oldie ofcourse, and good thing they don’t make these anymore. (Widowmakers)
These was popular in Australia, and southern USA, mostly for clearing, and cutting pulp-wood.
These machines put a lot of guy’s in wheelchairs, as the blade used to pinch, throwing the machine round, fastly cutting your legs on the way.
Atlest Australia forced a law that a belt round your waist, connected to the handlebars must be used (this didn’t stop the saw from throwing, but throwed the operator out of the way)
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That is my bad, St Walpurga is a germanic tradition supposedly celebrated in sweden according to AI. It sounds like the christian hijacking of older holidays. There are two other older traditions on the same day.
-Sigrblót (Start of Summer) This was a historical Norse sacrifice to Odin for victory in spring voyages and to Freyr/Freyja for fertility. It was often held around the first full moon of summer.
-Beltane (May 1st) is a Celtic fire festival marking spring’s peak and summer’s start, celebrating fertility, passion, and the return of light. Symbolizing the union of opposites, it is a “thin time” to connect with the spirit world, honor nature’s abundance, and ignite personal creativity or “inner fire”. (it is offset 6 months from the end of summer samhain, or halloween which is kind of the opposite celebration.)
Of these, I think you name it Sigr, as a the Norse Sacrifice of lawn’s to Odin. Tearing up the old dead lawn for rejuvenation of new fertile grass. Sigr can be a acronym for Sacred Indigenous Grass Rejuvenation.
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It seems my mind clears up some
Saint Walpurga must be equal to Valborg in Swedish, “Valborgsmäss”= celebration with may-fires and fireworks, the evening/night before 1st of may. 
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look for a corn binder. I know they shock corn in africa. It seems like someone would make a walk-behind cutter and binder. Most of the sapling biomass equipment is modified corn choppers. In fact the neighbors used to use a pull behind forage chopper to clean up brush…
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Cut, split and stacked another 6-7 true cords of firewood last week. Drying season has arrived. Fortunately I was rewarded afterwards with 36 hours of nightshifts during the weekend to get some rest.
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Very nice pile of fuel Goran. I envy you with your screw chunker.
Do you find with the mesh bags that the wood dries enough or do you just chuck dry wood?
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Hi Bronlin, i chunk both raw and dry wood, drying in the net bags works well, especially if i leave some space between and around them.
Otherwise it’s the only thing the net sacks are good for (think net-fishing, and everything gets tangled in) well, they are cheap, and holds up for atleast 5 times using.
I have an idea about drilling lots of holes in plastic pipes, putting a computer fan in the end, powered by solar, and put in the stacks of bags, to see if it helps drying?
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I am sure they will bone dry in a 55 gallon container with holes in the bottom, the lid on, and the bung removed or just the top loosely on. It traps the heat to drive the moisture out. It is essentially a fireproof solar kiln. It only takes a couple of days stuffed with brush and semi rotted wood. But it isn’t packed as tightly as what you can get with your fabulous chunker. I would just drop a couple of bags in and see what it does after like 3 days.
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I carried the sacks of firewood in today, we’re probably going to have quite a bit of rain for a while to come.
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Happy Easter everyone!
Three big birches cut down at in-laws place.
Lots of big and thin stuff.
A lot of chunkin’ in the future.
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I’m wondering about your saws Goran. Do they all run? I am messing around with my 8 gas saws and trying to get them all running and tuned. Most of them have been unused for some years but parts are still pretty much available for all of them. It made me think about your collection.
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