Look at the roots on this beast.

[Cat_Driver]

She fought me hard, but I bet her adn got her out of the ground.
That's a 24" bucket and she still trailed off another few feet out of frame.

 

[Wagtail]

:thumbsup:

 

[bullbreaker]

Nice Tak ! ..............

 

[Citydude]

What species of tree was that?

 

[radios1]

wow, it looks like you were lucky the excavator didn't tip over with that kind of load!.:shocked:

 

[Thomas]

That's nasty one for sure...equipment for the right job. :thumbsup:

 

[stuckmotor]

Cat_Driver,
Do you ever dig up a petrified tree trunk out in Ca? Around 1957 my much older cousin had a gray stone log that he pushed up with his crawler. He broke off a piece with a sledge hammer and gave it to me. I don't know what ever became of it.

 

[Cat_Driver]

Cat_Driver,
Do you ever dig up a petrified tree trunk out in Ca? Around 1957 my much older cousin had a gray stone log that he pushed up with his crawler. He broke off a piece with a sledge hammer and gave it to me. I don't know what ever became of it.

Out my way here in the Coachella Valley of Ca. near the Mex. Border I have nothing but beach sand. We are a couple hundred feet BELOW sea level and use to be an ancient ocean hence the beach sand like the bottom an ocean. That big cement pipe you see is an underground pipe that feeds the entire valley with Colorado river water via aqua ducts and those large pipes. You can order water by the acre foot.

The tree was next to the pie so it got plenty of Colorado river water. I had the hardest time killing it because of that. One time I stripped off every branch and leaf and only left that stump. Sure enough it only took that one leaf to bring the tree back to full glory and even more branches.

I'm thinking it was a cottonwood tree.

Speaking of almost tipping over, there were a few times fighting with this thing I was worried.

Here's the catch. I could only "pick around" the tree with the excavator because directly under the tree was the main line from the phone company to all the homes on my block. I could never go DEEP and I always tugged and pulled only the stump. What finally did it was the blade on the excavator. I rammed it good and hard and it tipping over enough to loosen it. Then a little more fighting and it popped out.

Having said that, there is no guarantee the LOOOOOOOOONg roots didn't disturb the phone lines.

Petrified tree trunk out her but it's always weird to dig down and see million year old sea shells like you would find walking along the beach buries 12 feet under ground.

Here's the pros and cons of digging in beach sane. #1 it's easy to dig and it's easy on the equipment. #2 it's like digging a trench in a bowl of sugar. To get a 24" trench you need to dig a 6' wide trench because of all the cave ins. You also don稚 want to do any work in the ditch for fear of cave ins.

I just dug a 1,200 foot trench around the property sides for a 2" PVC line. I dug the trench and assembled the and built the PVC pipe up above the trench on solid ground the pushed it into the trench. That worked out sweet, I never had to go in the trench.


We grow Dates on the ranch.

 

[Fuddy1952]

She fought me hard, but I bet her adn got her out of the ground.
That's a 24" bucket and she still trailed off another few feet out of frame.

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Wish there was a like button. Great job sir!

 

[bindian]

She fought me hard, but I bet her adn got her out of the ground.
That's a 24" bucket and she still trailed off another few feet out of frame.

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How are you liking your Ta ke? I always wanted one. Then I found my CAT.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Frankenkubota]

Man eating, squid! Not man, eating squid.

She fought me hard, but I bet her adn got her out of the ground.
That's a 24" bucket and she still trailed off another few feet out of frame.

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[Tinhack]

It looked too clean so I was going to ask if you found that on the side of the road. :laughing: Then I read your explanation of the sandy soil. Still quite a feat! Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup:

 

[stuckmotor]

There's a sand ridge two or three miles from the farm. I've never known how so much sand got there in the midst of all our clay.

 

[Seven Gables]

Here's a few pics of some sweet cherry stumps I've taken out of my orchard. I've taken about 2000 out in the last 3 years, some smaller than these but also some quite a bit larger with 2' diameter trunks and even longer roots. These cherry trees are on a Mazzard rootstock some of which have roots that reach out 25+ feet in all directions . Really is enjoyable to see what the little 6ton Volvo is capable of .

 

[riptides]

Pretty large root system. I have one black cherry that I have been battling to get out.

 

[oosik]

Lordy - you have deep soil. A mammoth undertaking. Loooong ago I had a fierce wind storm and it blew over one of my ancient Ponderosa pines. Because I have such shallow soil over bedrock - the roots spread out like an octopus. It's the only wind blown tree ever, here on my 80 acres. It took me two years of cutting, dragging to get it all "pieced up" and to the burn pile. The butt cut was 37" in diameter.

 

[4570Man]

The soil is shallow here. At least you guys can burn the stumps. The shallow ones pack together and the dirt can’t be knocked out.

 

[TractorGuy]

That's a nice one.

I might as well show off a couple of mine.

This was a big Sand Pine.

And mother of a Sweetgum.

 

[oosik]

TractorGuy - looks like removal of that Sweetgum almost required tearing up the entire front yard. I guess I'm just lucky. My only type of trees here are Ponderosa pines. I don't have many that you would say are "in my yard". The few that I've had to cut down - just leave the stump and let time take care of it. This pine was cut down about six years ago. 38" on the butt. Another five years or so and it will be dust. It's about 150 feet from the house. It was the closest one I had. View attachment 682111

 

[TractorGuy]

TractorGuy - looks like removal of that Sweetgum almost required tearing up the entire front yard. I guess I'm just lucky. My only type of trees here are Ponderosa pines. I don't have many that you would say are "in my yard". The few that I've had to cut down - just leave the stump and let time take care of it. This pine was cut down about six years ago. 38" on the butt. Another five years or so and it will be dust. It's about 150 feet from the house. It was the closest one I had. View attachment 682111

I dug out a couple of cherry trees to the right of it but yeah, I was still digging out roots that would surface for months. The point it was at in the picture was where I gave up trying to get it out with a E32 mini Excavator. I wasted a couple hours rental time getting it to that point before I gave up. I finished removing it after I bought my NH575E backhoe.