Renting BH Any Tips?

   / Renting BH Any Tips? #11  
I would do the excavator route as well. I had a Cat 315 with thumb for 2 days to clear the stumps out of my roughly 2-3 acres. I figured when I was done, Id bury them and then have a little time to rough in a driveway. This was my first time in an excavtor and it probably took me a good hour to get comfotable. It took quite a bit longer to pull the stumps that I thought were small and would just pop out of the ground. I ended up only clearing where the house was going to sit and getting those buryed. Some turned out to be so big that I tipped the machine when spinning with the stump in the air.
 
   / Renting BH Any Tips? #12  
I would do the excavator route as well. I had a Cat 315 with thumb for 2 days to clear the stumps out of my roughly 2-3 acres. I figured when I was done, Id bury them and then have a little time to rough in a driveway. This was my first time in an excavtor and it probably took me a good hour to get comfotable. It took quite a bit longer to pull the stumps that I thought were small and would just pop out of the ground. I ended up only clearing where the house was going to sit and getting those buryed. Some turned out to be so big that I tipped the machine when spinning with the stump in the air.
 
   / Renting BH Any Tips? #13  
The first thing you need to keep in mind is your rental is based upon time measured two ways. It's calender time, one week, and hour meter time, forty hours per week. So if you work the machine twelve hours a day for seven days you are going to have to pay extra for all the hours above forty.

I've found pulling stumps fun. My first observation was that the roots aren't all created equal. So my first concern was to try to guess which side of the stump would have the weaker roots. That's the side I want to lift. Then I try to use the stump as part of the leverage process against the stronger roots.

Ideally I cut the weaker roots and then pull the stump up and out peeling out against the stronger roots. If you try to lift the stump out putting the bigger roots in a shear it takes a lot more power and work. However if you use the stump as a handle to pull the bigger roots out of the ground there's a lot less resistance.

Keep in mind the tree has designed an anchoring system to prevent it from being up rooted by high winds. Since you're working with the stump you don't have the leverage the wind has with a complete tree. So you have to defeat the design of the root system. The best way to do this is to cut one side loose from the anchor. And then pull the severed trunk up and over the remaining anchor. The anchoring system is designed to resist tension and shear. You want to attack it's weakness, compression.

Hope this helps, have fun.
 
   / Renting BH Any Tips? #14  
The first thing you need to keep in mind is your rental is based upon time measured two ways. It's calender time, one week, and hour meter time, forty hours per week. So if you work the machine twelve hours a day for seven days you are going to have to pay extra for all the hours above forty.

I've found pulling stumps fun. My first observation was that the roots aren't all created equal. So my first concern was to try to guess which side of the stump would have the weaker roots. That's the side I want to lift. Then I try to use the stump as part of the leverage process against the stronger roots.

Ideally I cut the weaker roots and then pull the stump up and out peeling out against the stronger roots. If you try to lift the stump out putting the bigger roots in a shear it takes a lot more power and work. However if you use the stump as a handle to pull the bigger roots out of the ground there's a lot less resistance.

Keep in mind the tree has designed an anchoring system to prevent it from being up rooted by high winds. Since you're working with the stump you don't have the leverage the wind has with a complete tree. So you have to defeat the design of the root system. The best way to do this is to cut one side loose from the anchor. And then pull the severed trunk up and over the remaining anchor. The anchoring system is designed to resist tension and shear. You want to attack it's weakness, compression.

Hope this helps, have fun.
 
   / Renting BH Any Tips?
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#15  
Someone will be on my tractor and on another tractor moving the stumps out of my way once I move on where they can get to them and I will be burning them sometime later. Its a big backhoe made by case, I considered a excavator but most all are already rented weeks in advance and the people who rent them rent them for a month or more so its hard to get one just for a week. I was planning on spended 1200 bucks for the backhoe and at the moment don't want to spend alot more. I will definately shop around.
Thanks
 
   / Renting BH Any Tips?
  • Thread Starter
#16  
Someone will be on my tractor and on another tractor moving the stumps out of my way once I move on where they can get to them and I will be burning them sometime later. Its a big backhoe made by case, I considered a excavator but most all are already rented weeks in advance and the people who rent them rent them for a month or more so its hard to get one just for a week. I was planning on spended 1200 bucks for the backhoe and at the moment don't want to spend alot more. I will definately shop around.
Thanks
 
   / Renting BH Any Tips? #17  
If you can't find the excavator then the BH will work just slower is all.
 
   / Renting BH Any Tips? #18  
If you can't find the excavator then the BH will work just slower is all.
 
   / Renting BH Any Tips? #19  
Brandon - I'm in the excavator camp as for the tool of choice. Next would be a larger TLB to pop the stumps faster. Others have given good advice on working the roots on each side to get the stump to loosen. Once loose then pop and move on. Try to line up the stumps to get maximum use from the same position. Good luck.
 
   / Renting BH Any Tips? #20  
Brandon - I'm in the excavator camp as for the tool of choice. Next would be a larger TLB to pop the stumps faster. Others have given good advice on working the roots on each side to get the stump to loosen. Once loose then pop and move on. Try to line up the stumps to get maximum use from the same position. Good luck.
 

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