Backhoe stump grinding vs. backhoe

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Wait!

Are you saying to make the holes in the ground around the stump?

I've seen big hogs in a large fenced in area, and they devastated it. It looked like a D9 got hold of it. I guess there's an organic solution to everythig. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[slowrev]

If you are not going to till the area that has the stumps, then a grinder is fine. Just grind below ground level and spread the sawdust out and you are done, no stump to try to get to burn up, no hole to fill, etc. Of course in a couple of years or so you will have a slight dip where the underground part of the stump rots away.

 

[farmerpsv]

Thanks everyone,
this is the greatest site, you always get 100 different angles and experiences. lots of food for thought.
paul

 

[jwcinpk]

There is another option I'm surprised none else has mentioned. If you have a dozer come in and push the stumps out then they disturb a lot of topsoil. However, there is an attachment that goes on the back of dozers. I cant think of the name of it, but it works like a plow. It just drags up roots stumps etc. Not alot of topsoil is disturbed. Well not alot removed anyway. What is disturbed can be spread back out. Thats the route we will go on the land we are clearing. Just a suggestion.

 

[theonlybull]

a root rake on a dozor, or even better, an excavator will work great for removing stumps. the excavator can rip the stump out, pick it up and shake most of the dirt on it, then deposit them in a pile for burning...

 

[AndyMA]

I wish I could burn stumps. Here in Mass and Conn you are not allowed to burn stumps. In fact you can burn nothing over 4" diam and 4' long. What do I do with my big stumps. Dig a big hole and burry them with a bunch of the rocks I also need to get rid of. I try and put about 2 feet of fill over the stump and pack tightly around it with the backhoe. I wouldn't build on top of it, but some of the ones I buried this way 15 years ago haven't sunk. I think once you take the air away most of the decaying stops. I also have a Husky stump grinder that looks like a 372 chop saw with the wheel kit and a carbide blade (teeth about 3/4" across). It only weighs about 65 # and will go anywhere to grind. Sometimes I dig out huge stumps to about 2 feet down and then grind off the tops before filling in the hole. It all depends on what I've going to do with the area.

Andy

 

[normde2001]

The dozer work I referred to earlier, and what I had done, wasn't to remove stumps, but entire trees. He pushed them over, and pushed the tree, by the rootball, into a big pile to be burned. He cleared about 3 acres of trees for $200, an absolute artist with that dozer.

 

[adegiulio]

3 acres of trees for 200 dollars!?!? That is huge! Can he drive his dozer up here to NY?? Tell him to take I-95 for about 5 days, then take the NYS thruway for a day. I'll be expecting him by next Friday.... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[em14]

I would use a dozier. The dozier is one of the best ways to clear farm land. Backhoe on a farm tracter will take a lot of time . Dozier can slot one side of tree and then push from the other side and in very little time the tree is down and in the burn pile ...