Backhoe Pushing trees over with tractor b3200

[TroyR57]

Hey yall its been a while since I've posted, so going back about four weeks, I was able to do a little work with my new to me B3200. I was taking out some large trees, when a little sweetgum took out my tractor hydralics. I have the light material bucket on the tractor, along with a extension on the front edge which makes it a large fulcrum. I had dug around the base of the 14 inch diameter tree, and place my tractor in line with the way I was trying to push it over. While trying to push it over, I heard a large pop, and hyd oil was coming out from under the right fork of the front end loader, I had blowed the metal hyd line to the curle cylinders. I tried to change it out myself, but it was just all tangled up under the frame, so $400 dollars latter I was back in business. It seams that pushing with the backhoe, and the fel bucket down, caused to much pressure for the system to handle, and it was on the back side, this was the return, of the system. Which I guess saved the pump. Photos will be in another post, as my computer can't find file names ever on the first post to tractor by net. I have no ideal why?

 

[TroyR57]

Hope the photos are here, first is digging around tree, then pushing, then how the fel was position, and the location of the boken line is under the 4 in 504. PS, this tree is still standing. It has now died, and it looks like I will have to cut it down first, but waiting a little while before deciding. Also I am posting the trees taken down in reverse order, their are three more to follow.

 

[TroyR57]

So now for the rub, some photos of a larger tree, that I took out with out any problem, execpt lots of time. A 30 inch sweetgum.

 

[TroyR57]

The largest of the trees taken down. Note all the trees had a lean in them, so that I knew there was only one way for them to fall.

 

[DAY]

Check out another post going on today, about Farming with Dynamite. . .:thumbsup::laughing:

 

[MLD]

Ok I'll be the one to ask. Why didn't you cut the tree down first? I realize that you get a tremendous amount of leverage with a standing tree and it will rip
the stump out as in your photos, but that leverage could also kill you. Some how some way, if it can happen it will happen that's been my mantra when I'm doing anything in the woods.

MLD

 

[Ken45101]

You have ROPS on that tractor, but not FOPS (Falling Object Protection System). Pushing over big trees like that can result in branches from other trees coming down unexpectedly. Operators have been killed by such branches.

Unless a tree has an extreme lean, don't be so sure about which way it will fall. Sometimes the trees do not follow our expectations.

Ken

 

[bikerdib]

There is also the issue of a hidden root that has not been cut which goes under the tractor. As the tree goes over the root flips the tractor. Remote chance of it happening but not impossible. Trees that size have a lot of weight advantage over a B3200.

But isn't it amazing the amount of work these little tractors can do...

 

[beppington]

Wow Troy! That's great! Now come do mine. I don't have a BH

 

[vic4news]

It seams that pushing with the backhoe, and the fel bucket down, caused to much pressure for the system to handle, and it was on the back side, this was the return, of the system.

I also dig and push over trees with my BH when I want to remove the stumps.
If the hoe can't push the tree, the relief valve on the hoe should open. Not sure why your your fel line would have given out?

Vic