How best to get rid of all these small stumps.

[airbiscuit]

Is this going to be a fairway or the rough? If the latter, just use a rough cut mower for a few years. If the former, then you are back to removing stumps.

 

[EddieWalker]

For those offering advice about waiting for them to rot away, are you seeing the same hardwoods that I'm seeing? or are these pines that will eventually rot away in ten years and not hardwoods that will remain there a lot longer?

Renting an excavator is the fastest, easiest way to remove stumps. The bigger the machine, the easier it is. My neighbor had his timber thinned with everything they removed chipped. There where tens of thousands of 6 to ten inch stumps to remove and he hired a Cat 345 excavator to pop them out. He was getting them out about one per minute and it took weeks to get them all out!!!

If you do not want to rent an excavator, Egon's video shows a good options if you want to buy a sub soiler or a single shaft ripper. Do you have a box blade with ripper teeth?

The trick to getting stumps out is cutting the roots. A ripper will do this on small stumps and then it will be easy to pick it up and haul it away with your grapple.

 

[jcummins]

For those offering advice about waiting for them to rot away, are you seeing the same hardwoods that I'm seeing? or are these pines that will eventually rot away in ten years and not hardwoods that will remain there a lot longer?

Renting an excavator is the fastest, easiest way to remove stumps. The bigger the machine, the easier it is. My neighbor had his timber thinned with everything they removed chipped. There where tens of thousands of 6 to ten inch stumps to remove and he hired a Cat 345 excavator to pop them out. He was getting them out about one per minute and it took weeks to get them all out!!!

If you do not want to rent an excavator, Egon's video shows a good options if you want to buy a sub soiler or a single shaft ripper. Do you have a box blade with ripper teeth?

The trick to getting stumps out is cutting the roots. A ripper will do this on small stumps and then it will be easy to pick it up and haul it away with your grapple.

The sub soiler could be a good option. I do have box blade with ripper teeth. Problem with grapple, it is to wide to do the proper job, but I've uprooted many trees with it. In fact the biggest tree i took out of this area i grubbed out with the grapple.

 

[Dftodd]

X2 for renting a large stump grinder. One that's self propelled and articulated. I had over 70 plus stumps ranging from 6" up to 30" left over from cleaning out an over grown 1/2 acre on my property. The 6" stumps will take longer to walk the machine to it then it will to grind them down.

It took me around 10 hours to get everything ground down. But very easy to clean up and seed afterwords. Cost was around $300 a day.

 

[jcummins]

Is this going to be a fairway or the rough? If the latter, just use a rough cut mower for a few years. If the former, then you are back to removing stumps.

Lawn...one way or the other stumps need to be taken out.

 

[jcummins]

I wouldn't waste time... unfortunately, you would have been better off if you had pulled them rather than cut them.

I'd rent as big a stump grinder that you can find. Take a warm weekend, and have at it. Or, as has been said, rent a mini-ex.

You will be fighting them for 10 years, otherwise. There will be 'that one stump' that won't die and won't rot.

You are just going to have to grind them down below grade... or you could always bring in more dirt and raise grade above them.

I'd worry about the wear and tear on your equipment trying to remove them.

Yep...in hindsight, did it wrong.

 

[flingwing1969]

No getting out of messy when digging out stumps. Having that grapple puts you ahead of the game for clean up.

This is the sad fact of this but fixing it is what your tractor is for. I've never done it myself but others report very good luck with using their bucket, equipped with a tooth bar and just skimming along a couple of inches under the subsoil. Might be worth investing in a tooth bar and giving it a shot the worse that could happen is it doesn't work and you still have a useful improvement for your bucket.

 

[Egon]

A D-6 plus with a root rake is another option but equipment like that may be hard to find.

 

[jcummins]

A D-6 plus with a root rake is another option but equipment like that may be hard to find.

Going to get a sub soiler for this project. Besides have an idea of pulling in some electrial wires too for extension to my dock.

 

[flingwing1969]

Going to get a sub soiler for this project. Besides have an idea of pulling in some electrial wires too for extension to my dock.

Sounds like a good plan. Always nice to have an excuse, uh reason, to buy a new attachment or tool, eh?