Digging stump techniques

[Have tractor did travel]

You can also curl your bucket some and hook the edge of the roots with the side of the bucket near the pin, then lift the stick/boom some while you uncurl your bucket.

ucket. You can really multiply your power doing that and it won't lift the machine off the ground.

What a great idea. Thanks for that

 

[m7040]

I have a smaller minix but you may be surprised what it will do. From lifting tree logs, stumps and rocks and of course digging out tree stumps. Smaller trees up to a foot or two in diameter can be pushed over with the right leverage and if not then digging is the answer. With the excavator a big hole is quick and filling it in with the blade is also quick

 

[thunder86]

I can totally understand your point. So.... maybe look at the tree. If it's looking like it's got a natural lean or heavy side AND you can make THAT the falling side, maybe it's worth a try. If it's leaning the wrong way and you're trying to push against it.... then go with your gut feel.

One of my thoughts is if I'm standing at the bottom of the tree with no 'guarantee' that it's going to fall in a given direction, I'd rather have some horsepower behind me helping to assist/force it into that direction.

Remember, most trees are standing vertical (note, I did not say plumb) Point being, most of their weight is vertical so the power to assist/adjust/force it to a direction isn't as high as the same tree that has a natural lean OR, might be falling over and hung up in another tree at which point you pretty well know which direction it has to fall so you just figure out how to safely do it.

(did I just use the word safely and pushing trees over in the same sentence? Geez.... someone bit** slap me)

Nice lol. Yeah I’ve removed serval trees and gotten decent at it since I’ve bought my property. I went and got a older guy that’s a retired forester to help me and they’ve landed where I wanted every time after his advice.
One time though I had a big tree I knew was gonna hit another smaller tree but figured it would be ok and it would just wipe it out weight wise. Well…. It did come down but not the way I intended. It hit the other tree, stopped and the base went flying back the rest of the way until it was down. My feet had about a 1 foot space between that tree trunk and a creek.
Always something your not anticipating, that would’ve taken my tractor clean out. But yes a leaning tree, clear path of travel, on the small side to get a feel for it, I’ll try it out on some.