Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Sawyer Rob]

A stump grinder will grind the stumps and it's roots, to below ground level...

It works very good...

SR

 

[hunt4570]

A stump grinder will grind the stumps and it's roots, to below ground level...

It works very good...

SR

How far below ground level?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Depends on the grinder, but 6" +...

SR

 

[ultrarunner]

Why - if it is pasture - do you not just cut the stump off flush to the ground and not tear everything up creating more work to fix it. The stump and roots will rot in a few years and the cows, horses, whatever will gladly pick around it?

This is how my Dairy Farmer friends in Austria clear.

No one digs up roots/trunks unless growing crops.

The trunks are cut flush and flat... almost like step stones.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
That's what I always have considered pasture... a place to graze animals. I was also wondering why it needed to be stumped; it seems like a lot of unnecessary work. It's not uncommon to to leave trees for shade and to give them something to scratch against.

 

[Molalla1]

Here, better video..

New Hot Tub - YouTube

Nice hunt!

 

[Creamer]

Maybe I am just too lazy but I took out a 30" diameter cottonwood in my backyard many years ago and left a 15' tall stump. There was lots of animal life in and around it including woodpeckers and then birdnests and owls and hawks perched on it. Then one day it fell down and was very rotten and there wasn't much stump left either. I covered it with dirt and extended my garden over it and now you would never know the tree was there.

 

[Jstpssng]

Maybe I am just too lazy but I took out a 30" diameter cottonwood in my backyard many years ago and left a 15' tall stump. There was lots of animal life in and around it including woodpeckers and then birdnests and owls and hawks perched on it. Then one day it fell down and was very rotten and there wasn't much stump left either. I covered it with dirt and extended my garden over it and now you would never know the tree was there.

My neighbor are big bird people, she gives tours every year showing off the local avian population. A few years ago they paid a tree surgeon to cut the top off the poplar tree next to her house. Within weeks the wood peckers started working it, now they get up in the morning and can watch the birds from their bedroom window.

 

[hunt4570]

Maybe I am just too lazy but I took out a 30" diameter cottonwood in my backyard many years ago and left a 15' tall stump. There was lots of animal life in and around it including woodpeckers and then birdnests and owls and hawks perched on it. Then one day it fell down and was very rotten and there wasn't much stump left either. I covered it with dirt and extended my garden over it and now you would never know the tree was there.

That must have been fun cutting that thing that high in the air!

 

[hunt4570]

Nice hunt!

Thanks..