Ok, this is a bit of a technique question...
I have a 45hp Mitsubishi BD2G dozer and have some dead Blackjack trees I need to push over. The drought this summer was really hard on the trees in my area and we've lost bunch. I've pushed over a bunch of dead willow trees with the dozer and didn't have any problems at all, but willow roots are shallow compared to the Blackjack trees.
To complicate matters, all the trees I need to push over are in locations that are barely accessible to the dozer. I can get to them from only one angle and don't have more than about 40 feet to maneuver behind me.
I've tried digging right up to the trunk as far down as I can go with the limited space, and these trees won't budge. It's like they're made of solid rock or something. We'd just cut them down and pull the stumps out later, but we dulled 3 chainsaw blades trying to cut down 1 of the trees. I've never dealt with wood that is this hard before. Our land is very sandy and it's almost like these trees pull the sand up into their trunks and partially petrify while they're still alive.
Any ideas how to go about this? I wish I had a back-hoe available, I'd trench around the tree and cut the roots that way.
I have a 45hp Mitsubishi BD2G dozer and have some dead Blackjack trees I need to push over. The drought this summer was really hard on the trees in my area and we've lost bunch. I've pushed over a bunch of dead willow trees with the dozer and didn't have any problems at all, but willow roots are shallow compared to the Blackjack trees.
To complicate matters, all the trees I need to push over are in locations that are barely accessible to the dozer. I can get to them from only one angle and don't have more than about 40 feet to maneuver behind me.
I've tried digging right up to the trunk as far down as I can go with the limited space, and these trees won't budge. It's like they're made of solid rock or something. We'd just cut them down and pull the stumps out later, but we dulled 3 chainsaw blades trying to cut down 1 of the trees. I've never dealt with wood that is this hard before. Our land is very sandy and it's almost like these trees pull the sand up into their trunks and partially petrify while they're still alive.
Any ideas how to go about this? I wish I had a back-hoe available, I'd trench around the tree and cut the roots that way.