Strength of Ballast Box Receiver?

[Smokeydog]

Yes the ballast box would need some strengthening to pull stumps or even a loaded small trailer. Be careful.

 

[WinterDeere]

I just don't see anyone pulling many tree stumps with a CUT or SCUT. I really think anyone asking about this has just never tried it. I have a 3033R with a 320R loader, which has more lift capacity than any SCUT and most CUT's, yet it won't pull anything much larger than a dogwood. If you have a real tree stump, mature ash, oak, maple... you need an excavator or a stump grinder, not a CUT.

That said, if you really want to try it, they make digging tools designed for this purpose, to go onto your loader QA. They don't work all that well, but it beats just blindly pulling.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

My tractor is not going to move big stumps at all, but anything up to about 6" in diameter is in play. For stumps that are a little bigger, the subsoiler is usually effective when used patiently.

It works very well on stumps that have a lot of trunk on them. I will say that. If you can apply force to something 7 feet off the ground, it gives you a lot of leverage.

I want to use the hook on the box for shrubs and very small stumps, like maybe up to 3".

 

[5030]

If you can apply force to something 7 feet off the ground, it gives you a lot of leverage.

Exactly what I do if I cannot access the stump with the grinder. My 10K weight Kubota's pop them right out, root ball and all. Then I have to backfill the crater however. Like Charles Atlas said, you can move the world with a long enough lever.... Same applies to a tree. 7 feet up gives you one helluva mechanical advantage.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Exactly what I do if I cannot access the stump with the grinder. My 10K weight Kubota's pop them right out, root ball and all. Then I have to backfill the crater however. Like Charles Atlas said, you can move the world with a long enough lever.... Same applies to a tree. 7 feet up gives you one helluva mechanical advantage.

The big problem for me is cutting a tree that high off the ground. Generally not safe. I guess I could get a long chain and pull trees down without getting close enough to be hit when they fall.

I really hate stumps and rocks. Rocks are the worst because you can't tell whether the rock is the size of a coffee table or the size of a house until you get it out of the ground. I've been working on one that may be three miles wide underground for all I know. Maybe my house is sitting on it.

 

[5030]

No rock issue here. We are on sandy loam.

 

[WinterDeere]

Like Charles Atlas said, you can move the world with a long enough lever....

I'm not sure who Charles Atlas is, but he was plagiarizing Archimedes.

 

[5030]

The person that moved the Pullman railroad car by pulling it...

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Yesterday I received a hook for my ballast box receiver, and today I installed it. Sadly, however, I am already thinking of another idea which will make it necessary to remove the hook.

Has anyone here tried sticking a Harbor Freight hitch cargo carrier on a ballast box? It looks like a carrier would be good for holding a couple of chainsaws, fuel, a few tools, a strap, and a little water. I don't know if it would flop too much to be useful, though.

 

[LittleBill21]

wish you luck, I have had certain shrubs stop me dead in low range 4x4, stuff smaller 2 inches, other stuff easier, but i actually find it easier to just use the backhoe to pull them, the chains get tiring after a while.

I also weigh close to 4k in pounds