New XJ2025H

Plas62 · Dec 3, 2016

I got a total of six stumps out over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Here is a pic of the last one, #45.

It was some type of hardwood, possibly an oak and a real PITA to get out. Took about 10 hours total and I had to chainsaw through several roots to finally get it free. Stumps like this make you wish for a bigger tractor.

Plas62 · Dec 4, 2016

We finally had some rain this past week and I was able to burn :fire: Friday and Saturday.

Plas62 · Dec 26, 2016

I'm a couple of weeks late posting the before and after pic's of our property. I'll post the Before pic's in one post and the After pic's in another post.

Before July 2016

Plas62 · Dec 26, 2016

I've had the tractor for just over 5 months and am at 190 hours. So far we've dug out 47 stumps, had 15 stumps ground out, burned 6 good size piles of brush, removed an old Tie Wall and regraded.

Still a lot of work left to do in order to achieve the"Park" look I promised my wife when we bought the tractor, but we are starting to make a noticeable difference.

After December 2016

hutchman · Jan 11, 2017

Holly smokes ... you've been working that baby! Looks good! Pretty impressive!

So how long did it take to dig out that big stump in your first post? I've not attempted to dig one out that big before.

Plas62 · Jan 12, 2017

Thanks Hutchman

My first large stump took me about 20 hours, including filling the hole back in. But I was just learning to use the backhoe and tractor.

After all the practice I've had, I can now dig out one that size in about 8-10 hours, including filling in the hole.

It looks like you have the R3039, which is quite a bit bigger than my XJ2025. I would think it would take you about half the time it takes me to dig one out that size.

hutchman · Jan 12, 2017

Plas62 said:
Thanks Hutchman

My first large stump took me about 20 hours, including filling the hole back in. But I was just learning to use the backhoe and tractor.

After all the practice I've had, I can now dig out one that size in about 8-10 hours, including filling in the hole.

It looks like you have the R3039, which is quite a bit bigger than my XJ2025. I would think it would take you about half the time it takes me to dig one out that size.

I don't know, I have a friend that had taken on stuff like pushing trees over with his bucket high up on the tree and dug out big stumps and his tractor is bigger than mine ... a NH TC45. If I remember right, he said it took him 7-8hrs. to deal with a big stump.

Funny story ... he couldn't lift the stumps so he would roll them with the FEL. One time he was going up a hill and the bucket slipped of and the stump rolled back into the tractor and smashed up the hood, headlights etc.

I've learned a lot of "what not to do" by listening to him. He's the one that I've mentioned before that has broken some hydraulic cylinders on his backhoe ... and I recently joined that club by breaking my bucket curl cylinder.

You got any pecan trees?

Plas62 · Jan 13, 2017

I don't have any pecans trees that I'm removing. Most of the stumps I am removing are pine, thank goodness. There are several hardwood stumps that I have to remove scattered about and these are the worst.

I have had several stumps that were to heavy to lift out of the hole with the BH, once I got them broke free. On those stumps I push the stump around to a corner of the hole to get it out of the way and then dig the hole deeper until I've got the hole deep enough that I can move the stump to the deep part of the hole and bury it. Sometimes I have to re-position the stump several times in hole to get it out of my way while digging the hole deeper

I have had to roll/push several of them fortunately none of them have gotten away from me yet.

My tractor is currently at the dealer. When I talked with the dealer about replacing my muffler which had broke at the weld. I told him I had noticed a lot of slop in my BH boom and that I would like them to look at that while they had it in the shop. They found that one of the bushings had broken and was missing on the bottom pin of the boom. There was also wear on the two pins of the swivel assembly. I do grease the BH regularly after every 8-10 hours of use

They are replacing the pin and bushings on the boom, the two pins on the swivel assembly and the muffler under warranty. I have them replacing the teeth on the BH bucket, on my dime while it's in the shop as they are pretty worn.

Going forward I will most likely have someone come in and stump grind the largest pine stumps and the hardwoods in order to minimize the wear on my backhoe.

tomplum · Feb 12, 2017

We just took delivery of the same tractor. I must say that your post shows how capable this tractor is. Keep us up to date and thanks for the good info in all your posts.