CDN Farm Boy
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Yes, definitely a nice setup but the hoses look rather exposed. I'd put some 45s or 90s on the cyl port to get that loop of hose down away from the trees
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Yes, definitely a nice setup but the hoses look rather exposed. I'd put some 45s or 90s on the cyl port to get that loop of hose down away from the trees
woodchipper
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Great video demo. The hydraulic hoses are definitely not well routed!! A small sappling may not damage exposed components, but suffice to have one heavyer tree to bump on them tu create a real fluid mess... I would also like to see a brush guard added!
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The Brush Grubber came up in this recent thread: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/333560-tree-post-puller.html
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Here is a tree I grubbed earlier today.
Your video shows how fast pulling trees can be. :thumbsup:
I have their Long Arm Puller, it works good on the V417. Buckthorn Puller - Custom built Skid Steer attachments to fit almost any need you may have.
Eastern Red Cedar
View from the seat, clamped on the 5 inch diameter trunk.
Pulled.
Shook the dirt off.
It measured 15 feet tall.
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LouieJunior
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Xfaxman,
Nice machine. I would have difficulty getting a hold of any trees with low branches like those cedars. My targets are mostly willows which grow straight and fast. If you bush hog 'em, they grow back like the medusa! After I pull them out I collect them with my grapple for burning -- or I sometimes chip the trees whole.
Nice machine. I would have difficulty getting a hold of any trees with low branches like those cedars. My targets are mostly willows which grow straight and fast. If you bush hog 'em, they grow back like the medusa! After I pull them out I collect them with my grapple for burning -- or I sometimes chip the trees whole.
mark02tj
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I have the BrushGrubber BG-08. It will do a great job and work exactly as designed. But, if you're a gray haired ol' fat guy like me, it will work the livin' crap out of ya!!
When I first bought mine, I was using my Jeep Wrangler to pull out honeysuckle with it. So it was this.... Backup to the general area, get out of the Jeep, grab the BG-08, wrestle the jaws open, snap it around the base of the honeysuckle, climb back in the Jeep, pull out the honeysuckle and drag it to the general area where you want to dump it, get out of the Jeep, wrestle the BG-08 jaws open again to take it off the honeysuckle, stow the BG-08 and strap so I don't back over it and then repeat... and repeat... and repeat.... Using the tractor is better, but it's still work.
I'm in the process of building something to go on my FEL. Material is bought and cut. Just needing to start on the welding.
Check out this thread and look at the picture in post 2 and the video that C4Ranch linked to in post 8. That's basically the way I'm going. Hopefully it will be as efficient as what LouieJunior bought for $1400.
Speaking of LouieJunior - I will THANK HIM publicly for saving me $700 by posting up about the first BrushGrubber Tree/Post Puller thing he bought. When I bought my tractor, that was what I was originally going to buy. LouieJunior posted up about the limitations that thing had and answered a PM or two that I sent him. Nothing like the voice of experience to help out!! :thumbsup:
When I first bought mine, I was using my Jeep Wrangler to pull out honeysuckle with it. So it was this.... Backup to the general area, get out of the Jeep, grab the BG-08, wrestle the jaws open, snap it around the base of the honeysuckle, climb back in the Jeep, pull out the honeysuckle and drag it to the general area where you want to dump it, get out of the Jeep, wrestle the BG-08 jaws open again to take it off the honeysuckle, stow the BG-08 and strap so I don't back over it and then repeat... and repeat... and repeat.... Using the tractor is better, but it's still work.
I'm in the process of building something to go on my FEL. Material is bought and cut. Just needing to start on the welding.
Check out this thread and look at the picture in post 2 and the video that C4Ranch linked to in post 8. That's basically the way I'm going. Hopefully it will be as efficient as what LouieJunior bought for $1400.
Speaking of LouieJunior - I will THANK HIM publicly for saving me $700 by posting up about the first BrushGrubber Tree/Post Puller thing he bought. When I bought my tractor, that was what I was originally going to buy. LouieJunior posted up about the limitations that thing had and answered a PM or two that I sent him. Nothing like the voice of experience to help out!! :thumbsup: