3 PT stump grinder

[ampsucker]

for the work involved, i agree that letting nature take it's course is the easiest and cheapest if you have the time to wait.

to hurry the natural process, the other source of nitrogen is KNO3 or potassium nitrate. that is what is in the bottles of stump remover you find at the store. drilling holes in the stump is essential, then fill each hole with nitrate and wait. refill each couple of months. after a year or two, you can burn the stumps out or just blade or hoe them out.

depending on what you are going to plant, you might be able to get a partial crop by working around the stumps the first year. at least plant a cover crop of legumes to enrich the soil while waiting on the stumps.

amp

 

[Charlesaf3]

Interesting idea on the phd auger but I don't think it would work.

Going around the stump with a subsoiler, as suggest on here once, isn't bad.

But the back is the way to go. Still takes a while even with that - my solution, I have a lot of stumps, buy a bigger backhoe! New M59 on order

 

[DreaminGreen]

what about a stump remover like this.
YouTube - John Deere 8100 and Rotor S stump grinder

 

[Reg]

I used a "regular" PHD today.
Just a bottom of the line Landpride PD15.

I hit roots, but because it was my first time using one I was ready to pull up - and did.
Then I got the hang of drilling roots, neat trick.
Then I drilled much closer to a much larger tree and got a MAJOR root, that tree has to go fairly soon anyway, but we needed a hole right there, so kept going.
Just like a drill bit it kept gnawing away and, just like a drill bit, grabbed when it got all the way through.

I'll probably get a slightly larger one soon, this one was borrowed.
I'll look into augers specifically for boring wood, but this generic one seemed pretty good at roots - I guess they have to be.

For the number of stumps I'm ever likely to need to take out I'm thinking a post hole digger might be adequate.

 

[Reg]

what about a stump remover like this.
YouTube - John Deere 8100 and Rotor S stump grinder

Duhh, SURE.

What about BUDGET ?
{Couldn't buy one of those on MY toy allowance}
It seemed to shake that (bigger than mine) tractor around a bit.

 

[DreaminGreen]

I was suprised with a machine of that size that it shook it like that. Must be an incredible amount of torque.

 

[scuvnut]

I watched the video and that thing is wild. However, those who posted about the machine shaking bought up something I thought of.

Taking out stumps with 3 point stump grinder really bounces the tractor around an aweful lot - I tried one on a NH TC40 and seems these things should come with stabilizers like a backhoe...very bouncy.

 

[Reg]

It makes sense that it shakes and bounces.
It isn't "all in the wood all the time".
As it cuts through it gets to gaps between root branches, perhaps rotted voids, whatever else, then it "hits" again when it gets across the gap.
Chip size (speed and feed) is probably figured to get the most work practical out of this thing and I'd expect there to be some sort of spec on HP (torque at specified revs) and machine mass.

Whatever, it is a nice toy.

 

[cheesehead]

My Kubota L3130 was purchased primarily to help me clear some land I purchased. I listened to people tell me to rent a grinder as purchasing a unit was a waste of money. Rental for a week (Vermeer SC-252) was running $750 (daily rental was $250), and the engine used 1.25 gallons of gas per hour. If I ran the machine 9.5 hours per day I could grind 300 stumps, but I never wanted to grind another stump again.

Naturally, this was a poor way to go. First, I had over 500 more stumps to go. Second, there was always another stump to remove. Last, I wanted to work at my pace rather than use my vacation grinding stumps.

I thought about a backhoe, but what does somebody do with 500 stumps in metro Orlando and the craters they leave behind? As for letting nature handle it, some of the stumps on the property were there from clearing on the fenceline 10 years before my pucrchase. In other words, the sandy conditions weren't helping the situation.

I purchased a Worksaver SG-26 from Iowa Equipment and the rest is history. Those stumps are all gone and the neighbors regularly benefit from my investment too. The more horsepower you have the happier you'll be with this implement.

 

[scuvnut]

I thought about a backhoe, but what does somebody do with 500 stumps in metro Orlando and the craters they leave behind?

I purchased a Worksaver SG-26 from Iowa Equipment and the rest is history. Those stumps are all gone and the neighbors regularly benefit from my investment too. The more horsepower you have the happier you'll be with this implement.

In Florida....no idea what you would do with 500 stumps. Up in Connecticut, I'd thrown them in my Outdoor wood furnace and heat my house for a winter...or two!