Stump was a little too big for the Kioti

[JoelD]

I dug on this stump for about 3 hours, was at 5.5 - 6 feet when we called in the heavy artilery. A CAT 311, 26000 lb excavator. As you can see from the video the mini-boss ran the show as usual.

In about 8 hours yesterday my brother and I dug out 5-7 stumps and cut all the trees up.

I had my baby Sthil and he had his sthil magnum, man what a saw. We only had one pair of chaps therefore could only run one chainsaw at a time.

The front of the house looks totally different, will do all clean up work with the Kioti. The box blade will come in super usefull.

Fun day yesterday.

YouTube - Picking up Stump with Excavator

Joel

 

[deputyrpa]

Nice stump manipulation!! But that's cheating!

I am going to dig a ~0.25 acre trout/swimming pond with a Kobelco 360 in May. It would take two weeks with the Kioti, but a day or two with a 2.5 yard bucket! I'll take some pics.

 

[gmsssi]

Bigger than this?

 

[JoelD]

GM, that is a stump to be proud of.

Deputy, you got it right, with the correct machine the job is amazingly fast, with the wrong machine, near impossible.

Looking forward to those pictures.

Joel

 

[JoelD]

GM, not sure if you could see the video.

I figure the stump along with the rocks it had grown around and attached it's self to weighed somewhere north of 2000-3000lbs.

Super big and heavy stuff.

My tractor never stood a chance.

Joel

 

[Gittyup]

I took out one about the same size as Big Dog's with my CK25. Photos are posted on here somewhere. It took me about 8 hours to dig it out. And it was all the CK25 could do to drag it downhill to the ditch. Then I got a big excavator to come take out another one about the same size. The excavator had it out and was tossing it around like a rag doll in about 15 minutes.

 

[JoelD]

I took out one about the same size as Big Dog's with my CK25. Photos are posted on here somewhere. It took me about 8 hours to dig it out. And it was all the CK25 could do to drag it downhill to the ditch. Then I got a big excavator to come take out another one about the same size. The excavator had it out and was tossing it around like a rag doll in about 15 minutes.

LOL, your description is very accurate.

Those machines toy with trees, it's amazing the power they have and the amount of work they are capable of doing in a short period of time.

The 36 inch bucket seemed huge.

I just did not want to kick the snot out of my machine, my rocky soil makes stump removal very difficult.

Joel

 

[deputyrpa]

LOL, your description is very accurate.

Those machines toy with trees, it's amazing the power they have and the amount of work they are capable of doing in a short period of time.

The 36 inch bucket seemed huge.

I just did not want to kick the snot out of my machine, my rocky soil makes stump removal very difficult.

Joel

I hear ya', but us poor folks (land rich) can't justify the scratch for that kind of iron.

I put 14 hours on the DK this weekend starting to stabilize my roads and trails. Spread out some cobbles on a culvert crossing, some farm road trouble-spots and dug several drainage ditches and turnouts. The cobble is hard to handle, and the rocks at my place are brutal too. Go figure....30 feet of clay in the field and 100 feet away - rocks galore. A shot-load of them in just one 30 foot ditch a couple well over a ton. Here are some pics.

The offer is still open Joel....only 5 culverts and 480 tons of cobble to go!

 

[Gittyup]

Man, I'd like to have some of that cobble. Makes good cheap road base. What is it anyway, shale?

I had to move like 100 tons of basketball sized rip-rap mixed in with fill dirt. Now that was some hard stuff to get into a bucket! It just all locks together so tightly that it's hard to break out a bucket full (at least with my little CK25). I won though. Got it all moved without tearing up anything. Loader and tractor worked tirelessly.

The only reason I had the excavator here was part of a contract to install a pool. The tree was right where the pool was going. At the same time I was having a concrete porch built over my septic line, which also happened to run right under the first maple that I took out with my CK. I wanted to put in new septic lines before putting the porch on it, and this had to be done before the pool excavation. So, I had to remove the first stump myself, unless I wanted to pay for the excavator twice (wasn't happening). After that stump and a couple more big ones, I'd had more than my fill of stump removal. Now I will only do little ones, if any at all. Trenching is a lot more fun.

 

[deputyrpa]

The cobble is a mix of sandstone, limestone and granitic kneiss origin. It's pretty hard. There's a pic below for reference. The stuff only cost me an arm and a leg, but the roads and trails will be set for many years to come. I blew all my confiscated and subsequently returned tax payments.....and then some. OUCH!!!

I can't imagine handling basketball-size stones with fill. That little CK must have impressed you that day!

I have yet to remove a stump (I have hundreds to practice on), but I can tell ya' ditching in these rocks isn't fun. The field ditches are like butta'