Stump pullin'.....

[crazyal]

I'm not sure about a smaller hoe but you wouldn't do much by swinging your boom into a tree to try to knock it over. I guess if it was small enough you could but my swing cylinders just don't have that kind of strength or speed. Once you extend your hoe out a ways you loose a lot of mechanical advantage too.

I have used the hoe to push down trees. If I center the teeth of the bucket on the tree 5 or 6 feet up and push it I can take down hardwoods up to 12" in diameter (bigger if I work at the roots first) but I have the advantage of weight, a smaller machine may not do it as easily.

Of course before I do that I use the dozer. Angle the blade and dig a trench on each side of the tree and then raise the blade as high as it goes and push. Of course once it goes you just back up a little and push the tree and stump where ever you want it, but that's a whole different story.

 

[Taiser]

I had fun taking out my stumps. I'm leveling the front property for grass so leaving them in was out of the question. Mine were nowhere near as big as yours. They all averaged about 14-18" in diameter, maybe 200-300 lbs at most for the biggest ones. Mostly poplar. Each one took about 30-45 minutes to get out. Not unreasonable but my soil is 100% fine sand/loam, no rocks at all.

I dig out far and work my way in, because like a previous poster mentioned one tiny root seems to hold pretty good. It's a blast to do. Could not imagine doing it by hand with a chainsaw (my nieghbor did though), althought I did curse once in while trying to figure out what was left holding the thing in the ground !

 

[nastro]

Well, I could not resist jumping in to the conversation. I read it at first right after the first post was made but I did not have any pictures. I have been in the process of removing hundreds of stumps on the back forty. i am trying to clear for a pond on one side of my creek and some critters on the other side.

At any rate, the stump in the pictures took the better part of a day to get out. It was not the toughest but so far the biggest. The toughest grew over a pile of boulders that were to big for the hoe to break or move. I got lucky right after a good rain storm and it peeled right off.

 

[nastro]

Oh and I forgot, my grapple shipped out today, should receive it some time early next week. I will tell you all how it works. I still have not decided if I am going to add a valve to the hydraulics or if I am going with the electric diverter valve.

Brian

 

[Edstir]

This is a picture of my $1000 stump if it opens. I do not really know how to attach photos and hope this works.






C:\Users\ED\AppData\Roaming\Yahoo!\Mail\attach\stump1[0].jpg

 

[Taiser]

Hmmmm graple would be real handy, do they make one for the B7800??

 

[Jabroni]

This is a picture of my $1000 stump if it opens. I do not really know how to attach photos and hope this works.

It didn't work. To add the jpg, move down just below here and click on "Manage Attachments", upload your picture there, close the window, and you'll return to your post.

 

[Taiser]

OR

Get a free Photobucket account.

Here

Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket

Upload your pictures there and right below it will be a "tag". Copy and paste the tag to your post and the picture will pop up! Photobucket also automatically resizes your picture too so we don't get those MASSIVE pictures that make us scroll !

Photobucket also lets you do movies now too. God I love the 'net!

 

[Edstir]

Thanks I found the Attachment and have my $1K stump attached. It took 2 days for the contractor to remove it in two trips. His hoe was tipping over when he tried to pick it up. It broke in half and thats the only way it would fit on the truck.

 

[Qrazy]

NOW THAT is a STUMP!