Pulling Trees and Stuff

[boggen]

take the backhoe off the 3pt hitch. so you have access to the 3pt hitch, and more specifically to the swining draw bar. it will be located directly below the PTO shaft on back of tractor.

some dealers may low ball ya, if you get a backhoe at same time you get tractor, and not give you the extra lower lift arms, swinging draw bar, check chains, etc... you may have to spend a little cash for the basic 3pt hitch stuff.

 

[rswyan]

Here is how I remove trees, well pines mostly, usually 6-8" diameter but occasionally up to 10". First, I only do it when the soil is a bit wet, not when bone dry. Approach tree in first gear, low range and make contact with the bucket about mid height, maybe 6' up the trunk, then give it gas until the tree starts to lean a little. Reverse. Lower bucket and hook bucket edge under root ball that is now sticking up a little. As I give it a little gas, still in first gear I rotate the bucket back. This usually works like a fulcrum and pops the tree out of the ground. Done. No tree. No stump.

Do that quite a bit myself ...

Ya just gotta remember to check for any widow makers before ya start pushin' ... and keep an eye on the top of the tree while you're doing it ... just in case there's something there that wasn't apparent before you started.

 

[Brum]

1948 Ford Tractor Pulls Out a Stump (The Wrong Way) - YouTube

 

[Stonehaller]

I had a tall 20" diameter poplar on my wooded property that was leaning towards the road. There was not enough room in the woods to drive the tractor in the direction that I wanted to pull the tree so I used the backhoe to pull it. I extended the hoe and put a chain around the bucket teeth. My original intent was to pull the tree enough so it would fall away from the road when I started cutting, but once I started pulling with the backhoe I realized it could it could pull the tree right over. I had to take the slack out the chain a couple times. From a distance safe from any falling branches I was able to pull the tree over through the branches of the neighboring trees right to the ground. I have used the same technique several times since then.

 

[MESSMAKER]

Maybe I don't understand but why can't you just hook a chain to the drawbar mount, or does one not exist? I would think the sub-frame mount would have something you could get a chain around.