Highbeam
Super Member
So I figured I had better test out this new version loader. I had a couple of tress cut down near my hosue about 3 weeks ago and one stump needed to go. It was a spruce tree about 18" at the bottom. It sort of looked like an overgrown Christmas tree, the old owners actually planted it as a seedling.
Pic #1 and #2: I trasfered the toothbar to this bucket and began to dig around the stump. You need to go all around the stump and since the bucket is 5 feet wide, you end up with a huge trench. With the toothbar not only can you scratch more meterial in teh bucket but you can actually hold a bigger mouthful making each scoop more effective.
Pic #3: I pretty much had decided that this whole idea of a "tap root" was a myth. Well maybe a myth in certain soils but with the sands at this property the spruce stump was very deep. Almost like a shaft heading down the same size as the tree for several feet.
Pic #4 and #5: Not to worry though, enough scooping and then reaching in to cut a few roots made this stump roll out. I knew that once I got a little wiggle out of it that the sands would release their grip. Really it is a loamy sand but pretty dang sandy compared to clay.
Pic#6 is the monster hole. The good news is that I was planning to strip material from around the house anyway so I could just fill the hole with the spoils from that operation
This stump took a healthy 5 hours to dig out over two days. Part of the time was running material away from the hole and some was spent doing some hand shoveling. Every time I am able to accomplish something like this myself I figure that I saved the price of hiring a man with his excavator to come out.
After the first few hours I stopped and decided I really needed to reseal the leaky threaded hose fittings near the quick disconnect bank up on the loader frame. The leaky oil from two hoses was making a huge mess.
The loader and toothbar worked flawlessly. Go Kioti!
Pic #1 and #2: I trasfered the toothbar to this bucket and began to dig around the stump. You need to go all around the stump and since the bucket is 5 feet wide, you end up with a huge trench. With the toothbar not only can you scratch more meterial in teh bucket but you can actually hold a bigger mouthful making each scoop more effective.
Pic #3: I pretty much had decided that this whole idea of a "tap root" was a myth. Well maybe a myth in certain soils but with the sands at this property the spruce stump was very deep. Almost like a shaft heading down the same size as the tree for several feet.
Pic #4 and #5: Not to worry though, enough scooping and then reaching in to cut a few roots made this stump roll out. I knew that once I got a little wiggle out of it that the sands would release their grip. Really it is a loamy sand but pretty dang sandy compared to clay.
Pic#6 is the monster hole. The good news is that I was planning to strip material from around the house anyway so I could just fill the hole with the spoils from that operation
This stump took a healthy 5 hours to dig out over two days. Part of the time was running material away from the hole and some was spent doing some hand shoveling. Every time I am able to accomplish something like this myself I figure that I saved the price of hiring a man with his excavator to come out.
After the first few hours I stopped and decided I really needed to reseal the leaky threaded hose fittings near the quick disconnect bank up on the loader frame. The leaky oil from two hoses was making a huge mess.
The loader and toothbar worked flawlessly. Go Kioti!
