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Old 07-12-2007, 12:34 AM   #7 (permalink)
3RRL
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Default Re: 3R Home and Barn Project

One of the first things I had to do was pull this giant Oak stump which would be in the front living room. Matt, my son helped me cut it down last year so now I got the backhoe and dug a giant hole all around it. You know how big the Kama is, so figure how big that hole is. From these pictures it looks like you can almost put the whole 8,000 pound tractor in it.



That is where I used the backhoe with the thumb and saw it was tearing the metal out of the dipper stick. The Oak was right up against the rock formation so you guessed it ... tons of rocks to dig out. Plus, this thing had some 6" diameter roots as big as branches! The Nardi Backhoe cut through some of them but I had to swing the ax to cut some too. I finally got enough cut and dug where I could pull it over and out of the hole with the 554 Kama. This is also where I found that huge grub I posted back then.



Man, that thing is BIG and HEAVY! But Huge Kama ate it up with the dual grapple set up. Here is a perfect example of how the two grapple jaws clamp down independent on an odd shaped object. A big one at that.

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