Smokeydog
Elite Member
With backhoes you learn real quick if you want the stump out it is better to dig around the tree then push/pull to use the tree weight pop the root ball out.
A low cut stump takes forever to rot out. If cut 4-5’ high rots out many times faster. Why?
Traded a smart grapple with winch that I modified to work both ssqa or cat2 3pt hitch to arborists to take down 18 large high hazard trees around the houses. One being a red oak just back of the log house. 36” bar couldn’t cut some places thru from one side at 4” above the ground. Stumps really flare out at the bottom. Kept a mound of leaves and dirt over the stump for 9 years. Added some nitrate irrigation from time to time. It had not rotted much. Waiting to expand driveway for a building needed the stump gone. Had downsized and only had the B26 backhoe. It takes time. Finesse vs strength. Little bucket can reach where big buckets can’t. Follow roots out till you can break them. Like picking the meat out of a black walnut. Not my only project so worked at when I had time and weather. Also used my M59 FEL long bottom bucket. Didn’t have a backhoe for the M59 at the time. Eventually able to roll that tractor sized stump down hill in the woods.
Had about 40 hours in 6 weeks. Think rain during that time helped break the grip of that Tennessee red clay.
Have bought quick attach ears $225 from the dealer to make a ripper for the B26. Tried to get the good folks at BXPANDED to prototype a ripper for the B26 but no. They make them for smaller backhoes. Ripper for M59 would be sweet too.
A low cut stump takes forever to rot out. If cut 4-5’ high rots out many times faster. Why?
Traded a smart grapple with winch that I modified to work both ssqa or cat2 3pt hitch to arborists to take down 18 large high hazard trees around the houses. One being a red oak just back of the log house. 36” bar couldn’t cut some places thru from one side at 4” above the ground. Stumps really flare out at the bottom. Kept a mound of leaves and dirt over the stump for 9 years. Added some nitrate irrigation from time to time. It had not rotted much. Waiting to expand driveway for a building needed the stump gone. Had downsized and only had the B26 backhoe. It takes time. Finesse vs strength. Little bucket can reach where big buckets can’t. Follow roots out till you can break them. Like picking the meat out of a black walnut. Not my only project so worked at when I had time and weather. Also used my M59 FEL long bottom bucket. Didn’t have a backhoe for the M59 at the time. Eventually able to roll that tractor sized stump down hill in the woods.
Had about 40 hours in 6 weeks. Think rain during that time helped break the grip of that Tennessee red clay.
Have bought quick attach ears $225 from the dealer to make a ripper for the B26. Tried to get the good folks at BXPANDED to prototype a ripper for the B26 but no. They make them for smaller backhoes. Ripper for M59 would be sweet too.
