TMcD_in_MI
Gold Member
I'm more of a cobbler than a fabricator and I could really use some ideas on how to build something. I have hundreds of small maple saplings growing in different places that are from a half-inch to maybe one-plus inches in diameter, and I want to pull them up. I could brush hog them, but I don't want all the small stumps. Those little buggers stay around a long time. I have a JD 4310 with a loader, but no grapple.
So far, I've been wrapping a chain around them a few times and pulling them out individually, but getting on and off the tractor gets old fast. What I am trying to see how to build is some kind of attachment for my loader that I could just guide onto the tree trunk and have it somehow grab on so I can pull the thing out, and then somehow release afterward. I am trying to avoid the expense of hydraulics, so I would like a purely mechanical device. Maybe something that would wedge itself around the trunk when I backed up, but could be released afterward.
Anyway, that's my idea, and if anyone can help me picture how to build such a thing I would be very grateful.
Tom
So far, I've been wrapping a chain around them a few times and pulling them out individually, but getting on and off the tractor gets old fast. What I am trying to see how to build is some kind of attachment for my loader that I could just guide onto the tree trunk and have it somehow grab on so I can pull the thing out, and then somehow release afterward. I am trying to avoid the expense of hydraulics, so I would like a purely mechanical device. Maybe something that would wedge itself around the trunk when I backed up, but could be released afterward.
Anyway, that's my idea, and if anyone can help me picture how to build such a thing I would be very grateful.
Tom