Hooking up a chain

[PA hayseed]

Top of the ROPS.
Just kidding.
Don't do that.

That made me laugh

 

[PA hayseed]

Pull a 24" stump, no problem! Just leave the stump long.....about 20 feet long and chain or cable at the top!

'If you give me a lever and a place to stand, I can move the world.' - Archimedes (born c. 287 B.C. - died 212B.C.) ..or something like that...

Here the problem isn't flipping tractor backwards. It's the more you pull , the less traction you have (on back tires). Use 4 wheel squeal. I've always ran out of traction before the rear tires lifted. The longer the cable, the less the lift, better the traction.

Yeah, archimedes was a mechanical genius. That is how I learned about levers and fulcrums, which I still use to this day. People say you can't move that and it makes me think it out.

 

[CobyRupert]

OK - Coby. All my trees - and I DO mean every one of them - is a Ponderosa pine. I have many hundreds on my 80 here. How in the name of H*LL am I going to cut down an ancient Ponderosa pine up 20 off the ground. It's tricky enough just cutting them at ground level.

FWIW - I had to fall & burn one this summer. Pine bark beetle infestation. I don't have a pic of the stump but it is 36" on the butt - 8" up off the ground. If my neighbor saw me climbing that pine( BTW - it was 117 feet tall ) to cut it off at the 20 foot level---------- the men in the white coats would have been waiting at the bottom to take me away.

I don't know what you would plan on using to pull a 20' tall stump like that over with. I know my Kubota M6040 @ 10,100# wouldn't stand a Ghosts chance in H*LL.

Hee hee.
Yeah, don’t cut the tree to leave 20’ stump. Just leave tree attached when you pull it over.
....but a 117’ pine with 36” on the butt?....yeah, you’d need something really big to pull it over. Probably a couple of them.

Archimedes says maybe you’d better leave the stump 80’ tall!

Think of all the big trees that get blown over, root ball and all. And that’s just air.

 

[CobyRupert]

This is really not OK...the pulling force on the tractor is still at the level of the 3PH pins regardless of the level of the end of the arms...

You get twenty lashes for saying height of 3 PH doesn’t make a difference.

Tree Is Not Going Down Without A Fight - YouTube