johnrex62
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Now there are alternative methods that are safer and less expensive than using explosives. We don't use steam powered donkey engines for farm work much anymore either. :thumbsup:
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Now there are alternative methods that are safer and less expensive than using explosives. We don't use steam powered donkey engines for farm work much anymore either. :thumbsup:
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Iowachild
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The stump was way too close to my house on that property to use any "dramatic" methods of removal. Really if you look at the last photo in my posting you can see the bank behind the stump. I am digging out the bank to build a barn, so it's not like I had to get the stump out of a hole. It was still a bunch of digging and chopping, but easier than getting something like that out of a hole. In that same picture you can see the next two hemlocks that need to come down. I need to move the stump another 100 yards or so and the skid method gabby recommended might work if I can get the beast onto skids.
gabby
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It's not hard. Just tip the stump from one side enough to slip the first skid under it, then tip it from the other side to slip the other skid under it. Hook a separate chain around each skid and you're ready to go. You can make skids out of triple 2x12's so you will have strength and some elevation to help keep the stump from dragging in the dirt.
PhysAssist
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Hi All,
I'm finally delurking after having used your new and old posts for tns of things over many months- from deciding on buying our Kubota B2320 to tips for tractors that I applied to my log splitter and F-350 truck.
This stump thread, and in particular the skidding picture brought me back to my tween and teen years spending summers on my uncle's farm in rural upstate NY [just west of Batavia].
My uncle had a very large square framed section of ironwood with a curved steel plate [with a large oval hole in it to hook a logging chain through] mounted on the front [picture the front of a snow sled] and 2 large flattish steel or cast iron angle pieces mounted as "runners" running front to back on both sides.
They called it a stone boat and while it dated from a time when they pulled it with oxen and mules, we would hook it behind on of the many Farm-alls they had and load it up with boulders or tree stumps and unbelieveably it would float along even with the heaviest loads we could fit on it.
Mind you, these were 2 wheel drive and as long as they started slow and had adequate weight on the front, they pulled whatever was on that stone boat.
When we moved to our LSOH [little slice 'O Heaven] I made a much smaller one and used it behind my F-I-L's borrowed lawn tractor or B-I-L's 2WD Quad, and while I did overload occasionally, it worked pretty well.
Here are some pictures and a link to a horsey that sells them, but after reading all the carryall threads [and starting to fabricate my own], I think if anybody on here wanted one, they'd just whack one together.
For what it's worth,
Thomas
Product Listing - Frontier Equestrian
I'm finally delurking after having used your new and old posts for tns of things over many months- from deciding on buying our Kubota B2320 to tips for tractors that I applied to my log splitter and F-350 truck.
This stump thread, and in particular the skidding picture brought me back to my tween and teen years spending summers on my uncle's farm in rural upstate NY [just west of Batavia].
My uncle had a very large square framed section of ironwood with a curved steel plate [with a large oval hole in it to hook a logging chain through] mounted on the front [picture the front of a snow sled] and 2 large flattish steel or cast iron angle pieces mounted as "runners" running front to back on both sides.
They called it a stone boat and while it dated from a time when they pulled it with oxen and mules, we would hook it behind on of the many Farm-alls they had and load it up with boulders or tree stumps and unbelieveably it would float along even with the heaviest loads we could fit on it.
Mind you, these were 2 wheel drive and as long as they started slow and had adequate weight on the front, they pulled whatever was on that stone boat.
When we moved to our LSOH [little slice 'O Heaven] I made a much smaller one and used it behind my F-I-L's borrowed lawn tractor or B-I-L's 2WD Quad, and while I did overload occasionally, it worked pretty well.
Here are some pictures and a link to a horsey that sells them, but after reading all the carryall threads [and starting to fabricate my own], I think if anybody on here wanted one, they'd just whack one together.
For what it's worth,
Thomas
Product Listing - Frontier Equestrian
