mike69440
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- Central NH (God's Country)
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- 2005 L39 Kubota, 2020 Polaris 570 Sportsman, 2006 RTV 900, 2019 RTV1100C, 1997 Komatsu PC75UU2E w/ Thumb & Blade, 2013 Mahindra Max28XL Shuttle plus many attachments
Stump removal with my Komatsu_1997 PC75UU2
Stump removal with my Komatsu_1997 PC75UU2
It is a small Excavator, 18,000 Lbs, really only about as strong as a commercial backhoe.
This is my technique for surgical removal of trees. It works with hardwoods 6" to 8" diameter and birch and pine to 10" diameter or a bit larger.
1. Decide which way I want tree to fall.
2. Dig to break roots right next to trunk 220 degrees around the tree OPPISITE the side that you will fall the tree.
3. Get bucket under the root ball and lift. The roots still in the ground will make the tree tilt in the direction you wanted it to fall.
4. As I have now loosened the tree, and it is leaning a bit, I grab it with the thumb and rip it out.
5. Watch out swinging the tree, it is like a 30 to 40 foot baseball bat.
6. Move tree to where you want to cut it, buck it and cut up for firewood holding tree off ground at a comfortable working position.
7. Take a break.
8. Repeat.
A large excavator (+30T) with a thumb could log really well and handle large trees, but few larger machines have thumbs, plus bad things could happen quick.
For large trees. I wrap a strong chain as high as I can reach with a 24 ladder then cut them and pull them with a 100 foot cable. When the tree starts to go, I swing the boom to pull fast as I知 backing up. I have had the tops of the tree brush the cab. A good scare, but the branches are small at the top. Around here, 90 to 100 Ft tall is a big tree. 99.99% of old growth has been cut.
Thanks, Bart I am finding a commercial machine is real a kick to operate. I bet that Case Super M is a blast to work with to.
crazyal I see what you mean about pushing trees over
I made a deal with the wife- since we needed to warm up the engine before the oil change.
She could learn to drive it and pop out a stump or push over a tree.
This one lost a top during a violent storm last year.
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I think she did very well.
Oils changed and took out 3 more trees and grappled them out with the Rhino for fire wood-
the stumps and dirt are my only real problem now?!..(getting them out of the ground) was only part of the job.
But we are having fun.![]()
Stump removal with my Komatsu_1997 PC75UU2
It is a small Excavator, 18,000 Lbs, really only about as strong as a commercial backhoe.
This is my technique for surgical removal of trees. It works with hardwoods 6" to 8" diameter and birch and pine to 10" diameter or a bit larger.
1. Decide which way I want tree to fall.
2. Dig to break roots right next to trunk 220 degrees around the tree OPPISITE the side that you will fall the tree.
3. Get bucket under the root ball and lift. The roots still in the ground will make the tree tilt in the direction you wanted it to fall.
4. As I have now loosened the tree, and it is leaning a bit, I grab it with the thumb and rip it out.
5. Watch out swinging the tree, it is like a 30 to 40 foot baseball bat.
6. Move tree to where you want to cut it, buck it and cut up for firewood holding tree off ground at a comfortable working position.
7. Take a break.
8. Repeat.
A large excavator (+30T) with a thumb could log really well and handle large trees, but few larger machines have thumbs, plus bad things could happen quick.
For large trees. I wrap a strong chain as high as I can reach with a 24 ladder then cut them and pull them with a 100 foot cable. When the tree starts to go, I swing the boom to pull fast as I知 backing up. I have had the tops of the tree brush the cab. A good scare, but the branches are small at the top. Around here, 90 to 100 Ft tall is a big tree. 99.99% of old growth has been cut.