My tractor is pretty tiny -- NH TC18 (18 HP) with a 12LA loader. I cut the scarifier beam off a damaged 6' box blade and used it, along with the scarifier teeth, as my digger. (see attached). It works pretty good. I can pop 3" to 4" pines out of the ground, and worried a pine with about a 6" trunk by loosening the roots, pushing on the trunk, and finally flipping it over by the roots. Mostly, I use it on the noxious Braziilian pepper trees that threaten to take over Florida.
Looking for Tree Removal Ideas
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MicroPilot
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Is that mounted to the bucket? If so, how?
Suburban600
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I have a Farmtrac 60...50 hp 2wd tractor with a loader and a 6' bush hog with a slip clutch. I put the loader at about 8 or 9 ft up the tree, 10 year old pines, and while applying down pressure and bending the tree over I drive over it and cut it up with the hog. If I can't bend the tree over then I cut it with my husky and run over with my hog to cut off the limbs at about 9 inches.
A year or so later I run over the mess with my antique dearborn disk plow and then the next year or so I disk it up with a bush and bog.
Works ok. Lots of fun. Choose your poison...time or money...a bulldozer could do the whole project in a couple of hours...but doing it the way I do gives me some time to really thing about what I'm doing and where I'm going with my project.
I also do the portable brush pile thing by cutting trees like in places I can't take the tractor...it is 2 wd /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif...and make a brush pile on my loader forks and take it to my burn piles.
Jim
A year or so later I run over the mess with my antique dearborn disk plow and then the next year or so I disk it up with a bush and bog.
Works ok. Lots of fun. Choose your poison...time or money...a bulldozer could do the whole project in a couple of hours...but doing it the way I do gives me some time to really thing about what I'm doing and where I'm going with my project.
I also do the portable brush pile thing by cutting trees like in places I can't take the tractor...it is 2 wd /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif...and make a brush pile on my loader forks and take it to my burn piles.
Jim
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Works ok. Lots of fun. Choose your poison...time or money...a bulldozer could do the whole project in a couple of hours...but doing it the way I do gives me some time to really thing about what I'm doing and where I'm going with my project.)</font>
Do I see a BIG smile in between these lines? Welcome to TBN. John
Do I see a BIG smile in between these lines? Welcome to TBN. John