Removing Stumps

[Qapla]

Look like you have learned the right technique to getting those stumps out. Good Job.

Just curious, is one of those garage doors the one that jumped it your way?

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Yep, the one on the left. If you can see the one on the right, it is down just like the left was when I hit it. The one I hit will be replaced next week.

 

[petes]

I pulled a stump last week that was just a little bigger. It took me about an hour, but I bet I was more tired than you were.... I used a shovel, root axe and when I got tired of digging and hacking, chained up the stump to my F250 4x4 to break it loose (had 3 tires slip on concrete!). I did (try to) use the FEL on my B7100 to lift it, but it was too heavy with all the dirt in the rootball so had to knock it around and whack away the dirt with a pick until I could lift and carry with my FEL (500lb cap).

Still beat the heck out of when I hand dug a ~2000lb cottonwood stump. It took a couple days (had to rest) of digging and root chopping. I ended up with an 8-10ft diameter hole, 3-4ft deep, then used hydraulic jacks and my Subaru wagon (seriously!) to get it out of the hole.

Playing in the dirt is fun... or at least it sounds like fun after all the blisters have healed!

 

[Mousefield]

I have dug out a few stumps, most I didn't need to but what the heck, it was seat time. :licking::licking: Got some time on the backhoe and learned a bit on the best way to dig up stumps. Found that I need to dig a bit a way from the stump to be able to break the roots, doesn't work to well if you dig right next to the stump.

 

[LarryD]

Hey Mousefield, I'm just a little south of you, wanna come practice your technique here? :thumbsup:

 

[Mousefield]

Hey Mousefield, I'm just a little south of you, wanna come practice your technique here? :thumbsup:

I'd love to but my passport has expired.

 

[The Haymaker]

Funny I came across this thread while hunting for "todays seat time". I've been recovering a small piece of land that is on a steep slope. It was all small trees and a bunch of some thorny, nasty, flowering things. Anyway, at the bottom, just right to make me always have to turn on the hill, was a 24" pine stump that blew over 4 or so years ago.

Had the forks on to set a new snowmobile bridge for the ITS trail that crosses the property and got a little side tracked with the stump. I don't have a backhoe, but the forks work just as good. Work around the stump and break any roots by inserting the forks under them and lifting, rolling the forks forward, and driving forward slowly. Then get under the stump itself and do the same thing. This is the biggest I have done so far. Don't think I could've done it with a fresh kill.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

I have dug out a few stumps, most I didn't need to but what the heck, it was seat time. :licking::licking: Got some time on the backhoe and learned a bit on the best way to dig up stumps. Found that I need to dig a bit a way from the stump to be able to break the roots, doesn't work to well if you dig right next to the stump.

Wow! That's a big one...:thumbsup:

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Here is today's work. I finished it in about 3-4 hours total.