Backhoe met its match

ror105 · Apr 7, 2013

B2320 and BH65 can't make this 100' pine any smaller. Now I need to rent an excavator. The Cat skid steer in the background would not budge it either.

Gale Hawkins · Apr 7, 2013

Like they say every force meets its match sooner or later.

sandyc · Apr 7, 2013

Just a thought. Dig a deep hole on one side and then roll that sucker into it and fill in over it.......

J F · Apr 7, 2013

Dynamite? :laughing: Great picture, shows just who's boss, huh?

LazyBoy · Apr 7, 2013

Pine trees can have a DEEP tap root, if you can dig a deep trench on one side to expose most of the tap root you may be able to push/pull it over, then pull it out?

ror105 · Apr 7, 2013

I'm on my way back to the house with this. We'll see how deep those tap roots are.

Grandad4 · Apr 7, 2013

sandyc said:
Just a thought. Dig a deep hole on one side and then roll that sucker into it and fill in over it.......

Had almost the same suggestion... go deeper and wider so you can get to the underside better. With the BH sitting at the edge of your hole, you don't have the reach to get underneath the stump any further, but you're not out of options by any stretch. Make a ramp down into the crater, then drive the backhoe down the ramp so you can dig more underneath the stump. Eventually you'll remove enough material that the stump becomes unstable and you can topple it. That is one big honkin' stump, so be careful where it falls!

Then you can grub more soil away until you can move the actual stump, probably pushing and pulling with your equipment.

RFB · Apr 7, 2013

Please be carefil when working under the stump. We had a professional logger "disappear" from a worksite. They did not find the body for years. He sat in the shade of an upturned stump to eat lunch; it reverted backed into its hole with no trace of the event.

ror105 · Apr 11, 2013

Well between the L35 and the cat skid steer, we got it out. Neither one of them could pick it up so we used both backhoes to clean enough dirt off to lift. The Cat rocked all the way back to the side of my hill where I dropped it.

Then since the L35 was here, we've replaced the 36" diameter pipe that serves as the bridge to my house.

Wow a lot of work