Grappling fun - A Picture Thread....

[4570Man]

Burying them around here doesn't work out because they were already on top of solid rock.

 

[dragoneggs]

My experience is it takes a bunch of fires to get a big stump to burn and if there's very many on the pile you can't get it to burn at all. On my recent land clearing I burnt all the stumps smaller than about 12" and hauled off the rest.

I only put one big ole stump on the pile at a time. And yeah it takes a few burns to 'bury' it. But I can't legally burn huge fires. Limited to 3ft by 3ft by law but I measure that as size of fire not pile. The regs aren't clear. :laughing: After a day burn the stump is a good base for the next few lights.

I quit burning, just too much work. Either I bury them (when I rent an excavator to take out key stumps I'll just dig a hole where they were and drop them back down) or I dump them elsewhere (now that I have a tractor that has more grunt, and a grapple!).

Maybe you have too big of equipment. You must not be wrestling big evergreen stumps with a BX sized tractor!

 

[4570Man]

Having to big of equipment isn't possible. I had to fight several big ones pretty hard with a 15,000 pound CTL. I couldn't turn the some of the big ones over with my tractor. Loading all of the big ones was a hopeless effort with the tractor. I had to use my backhoe to dig as much dirt as possible off as possible before the CTL would load them.

 

[dragoneggs]

Having to big of equipment isn't possible. I had to fight several big ones pretty hard with a 15,000 pound CTL.

Now you're talking! I'm humbled with only my little BX beast.

 

[4570Man]

Now you're talking! I'm humbled with only my little BX beast.

I know the feeling. I've never had that small a tractor but the big ones kicked my L3240s butt.

 

[EverythingAttachments]

Here's a picture from today's grappling adventures (pretty sure that this trunk was right around 2k lbs; I moved an even bigger tree trunk, but the tractor really struggled; one side of the trunk (a "Y") was kind of sliding on the ground- since I can't say that it was truly dead-lifted I can't claim it as a grapple trophy!):

:shocked: No words. :shocked:
Travis

 

[Citydude]

Doing some thinning and off to the burn pile. I used to carry a grapple full down to the pile until I seen the use of a trailer here on TBN. Welding a hitch on the back of my Farmi has saved me miles of back and forth with my tractor.

 

[wsc9tt]

EA Wicked Grapple can just barely pick up my large square bales.

 

[EverythingAttachments]

EA Wicked Grapple can just barely pick up my large square bales.

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That's a mouthful for sure! Nice view!
Travis

 

[Xfaxman]

Doing some thinning and off to the burn pile. I used to carry a grapple full down to the pile until I seen the use of a trailer here on TBN. Welding a hitch on the back of my Farmi has saved me miles of back and forth with my tractor.
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Yep, I have been known to load the 8x16 deckover, then hook on and pull it to the burn pile.