Hickory tree stumps and dirt are very heavy

[Soundguy]

I work at a road construction company, and one time, one of our small dozers.. D3 or D4.. was stuck in a marshy area, and we pulled it out with a big long chain, and an 80hp 2wd large John Deere farm tractor, situated just outsid ethe muddy area.... worked better than we expected.

Used the tractor again later that year... The owner of the company had an air boat, and brought it out to one of our jobs that was along the intercostal, anyway, he towed the boat with an isuzu trooper... anyway, the place where he let the boat in proved too steep to get the boat out, and the isuzu trooper was actually sliding into the water, boat and trailer attatched... the tractor had little problem with that situation too.
The only other occasion I can remember us using the tractors to pull other motorized vehicles was when we were excavating some muck from a drainage retention area, and the pan ( large articulated drop-belly earth mover ) would stick halfway through its run. We hitched the John Deere, and a ford 3000 to the front of the pan to assist it. Worked fairly well.


Chris

 

[Dozernut]

Scott: Your story reminded me of when we were taking out a large tree. We dug all the way around the roots, then using a one ton truck pulling and the tractor pushing we finally got the tree over. It was too big and heavy to move so we got the chainsaw and started trimming. When we cut the crown off, that dang tree stood back up. That was an odd looking sight. The wife came home and saw it and thought we had climbed the tree and trimmed it. Wish now I had taken a picture.

 

[Scott_in_WVA]

I had a tree lay down that was in the fence line........What to do? Cut part of the tree off and it stood back up.Fence was ok.
I wish it was always that easy.

 

[theboman]

6" ? Was there a mile or two of fence connected to the tree? ha.

 

[Scott_in_WVA]

No fence,
Thats what bewildered me.........The amount of dirt and rocks in the roots was extremely heavy in proportion to the size of the tree.

 

[WVJEREMY]

Where in WV do you live? I live in Belleville which is south of Parkersburg and we mostly have locust trees to deal with.

 

[Scott_in_WVA]

Belleville........did you say Belleville? /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
No way..................!! I live in the suberbs of Belleville and Wadesville.

 

[Soundguy]

Perhaps the roots gre through a lage boulder. In the road construction I ndustry, I have seen that.. especially with pine trees.

Chris