VENDER FOR STUMP REMOVING TREE HOOK ?

[jeff9366]

Check out this U-Tube video.

Can anyone supply a vender for this simple, effective, TREE HOOK?


Removing Small Stumps And Roots On My Off Grid Homestead... - YouTube


If I find the attachment, I will pull from my center drawbar clevis hook.

 

[bcp]

The maker of that hook has probably been out of business for 100 years.

And someone needs to buy that man a drawbar hook.

Bruce

 

[mcfarmall]

Take that ball off the tractor drawbar and put a clevis on it. And lose the bent blue drawbar. This is not the correct application for it.

 

[RickB]

Informative video of how not to do so many things..............

 

[kebo]

Informative video of how not to do so many things..............

Including driving your tractor while standing up on the left side foot rest and looking back.

 

[justinramani]

I'm not sure why people try to use chains to remove stumps. If something goes wrong and the chain snaps, or the clevis doesn't hold the chain, is going to whip through the air and destroy anything in its path.

 

[jeff9366]

In the U.S. Navy's opinion, wire cable/rope will stretch and potentially whip in recoil.
In the U.S. Navy's opinion, if chain fails it will drop.
The Navy is very specific about applications for cable Vs. chain.
Perhaps not perfect safety, but close to perfect safety.

In many years of woods work I have never experienced 5/16" Grade 70 chain failing. 5/16" Grade 70 chain is stronger than the force my 5,400 pound, 4-WD tractor can apply to the chain.

That appears to be 5/16" chain in the video but it may grade LESS than Grade 70. Still, ample strength for the minor stumps shown in the video.

IF NOT CHAIN, WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST AS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE ?

 

[Gary Fowler]

In the U.S. Navy's opinion, wire cable/rope will stretch and potentially whip in recoil.
In the U.S. Navy's opinion, if chain fails it will drop.
The Navy is very specific about applications for cable Vs. chain.
Perhaps not perfect safety, but close to perfect safety.

In many years of woods work I have never experienced 5/16" Grade 70 chain failing. 5/16" Grade 70 chain is stronger than the force my 5,400 pound, 4-WD tractor can apply to the chain.

That appears to be 5/16" chain in the video but it may grade LESS than Grade 70. Still, ample strength for the minor stumps shown in the video.

IF NOT CHAIN, WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST AS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE ?

Totally agree, nothing better than chain for pulling mainly because it DOES NOT stretch and build up a reactive force like cable, rope, nylon straps etc does should it break. At most it may react by recoiling a few feet. As long as one uses the correct size and grade chain that exceeds the strength of the pulling component, there is not much likelihood of a break.

 

[bcp]

Chains can recoil long distance. Long ago I tried to move an old stump from where a dozer left it after removal. I had been dragging brush, so I only had two 1/4in chains, about 30 feet total. Chain broke near the stump, recoiled about 20 feet and broke the window on my 4x4.

A chain stretches before it breaks. That energy release can really send the chain flying. I think the stories of a broken chain just falling is when there is a bad link that fails before the chain stretches.

Watch the chains break in this chain test facility. I think chain break is about 2:05+ and 3:15+

Bruce

 

[justinramani]

In the U.S. Navy's opinion, wire cable/rope will stretch and potentially whip in recoil.
In the U.S. Navy's opinion, if chain fails it will drop.
The Navy is very specific about applications for cable Vs. chain.
Perhaps not perfect safety, but close to perfect safety.

In many years of woods work I have never experienced 5/16" Grade 70 chain failing. 5/16" Grade 70 chain is stronger than the force my 5,400 pound, 4-WD tractor can apply to the chain.

That appears to be 5/16" chain in the video but it may grade LESS than Grade 70. Still, ample strength for the minor stumps shown in the video.

IF NOT CHAIN, WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST AS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE ?

If it were me I would dig out the stump. I wouldn't pull it with anything until it was mostly free... Many ways to skin the cat.