Stump Wars

[scoutcub]

Thinking I should start a new reality show. I bought a 62 acre parcel that I call my "stump farm". The seller had it logged right before selling, stumps and tops all over the property.
I should sue him, he's costing me all kinds of money....I've had to buy a dozer, excavator, and now a tractor with a grapple to deal with the tops. Dam him!!!:laughing::laughing:

Some of these stumps are taking me a few hours with a 14 ton excavator.....eish!

 

[schoolsout]

We're about to clear 10 acres of some not-so-large pines....bring your equipment down to SC when you're finished

 

[DIRTROAD]

Be careful, I broke the stick on same size track hoe digging stumps one time. $7000 for a new stick!!!

 

[scoutcub]

We're about to clear 10 acres of some not-so-large pines....bring your equipment down to SC when you're finished

Hmmm....then I'd have to get a nice class 8 tractor, lo-boy trailer.....CDL......hmmmm....sounds interesting....:laughing:

 

[scoutcub]

Be careful, I broke the stick on same size track hoe digging stumps one time. $7000 for a new stick!!!

true....the machine had a crack I had welded when I bought it, I think about that when I'm yankin on a stump, and let off before I stress something. Don't need no big repair bill.....

 

[Bob77064]

Sorry to hear you were left with that mess. Looks like you have some good equipment to work with.

 

[tonyoz]

Scoutcub, did you ever consider grinding those stumps? One of the main benefits is about 90% less cleanup and no big holes to backfill. A Rayco C140 with a stumpgrinder or similar would eat the excavator time wise.

 

[rsewill]

If you don't go with a grinder get yourself a heavy duty grapple which can act like a shear to cut your way through the stumps.

 

[fishfactor]

I watched a friend stumping with a hitachi 700 excavator a few months ago. He made me feel like our CAT 315 was a tonka toy. He could stump a 50' wide path of mature hardwood stumps at one time and it never seemed to strain.

 

[Hollow]

Find somebody with an explosives license and have some fun with it!

 

[Grayson Klassen]

I have 30 acres of standing aspen, i want to clear a bunch of it and totally wish I had an excavator. A friend has a dozer (D5) I may try once I drop a what of trees.

Trouble with Aspen is no one wants it for firewood or nothing.

 

[scoutcub]

I have 30 acres of standing aspen, i want to clear a bunch of it and totally wish I had an excavator. A friend has a dozer (D5) I may try once I drop a what of trees.

Trouble with Aspen is no one wants it for firewood or nothing.

That's a lot of Aspen! Can't use it for boardwood? Too small? I've been able to push some trees over with my Dozer, which is a D3/4 size....depending on which model and the size trees, a D5 should do a bit better. But the excavator rules.....put the bucket against the tree, and start pushng....over comes the tree, with rootball.
Good luck!

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Hmmm....then I'd have to get a nice class 8 tractor, lo-boy trailer.....CDL......hmmmm....sounds interesting....:laughing:

HEY FRANK!

I'm Closer than SC, stop here first.

David

 

[MossflowerWoods]

If you do start tv show, you can shoot one episode here...

My personal stump war has morphed and evolved as I get new and different equipment.

Right now I'm in the "Ratchet Rake Revolution" phase. I discovered with my temporary pasture area that the stumps left by the mulcher that are completely at ground level do not bother the horses at all it seems. So I am only grinding the ones that stick up, or in places that I need to level, etc.

The grapple works on the tops and big chunks of slash, and then the small stuff seems to "rake" pretty well with the RR. Yes, it gets caught on the ground level stumps, and larger roots, but some of those roots it breaks them enough that by using the cutting end of my tamping rod I can just pop those roots right out. But it seems to leave behind some places almost clear enough to toss some seed out and pray it grows.

I'm NOT making a field I could grow crops on, no plow will ever survive, but it should make just fine "Poor Man's Horse Pasture" and grow some orchard grass.

LstInThot's backhoe was awesome popping out a cedar and locust stump, but filling in and packing down those holes is complicated so I'm not sure my fantasy of buying a JD 110 TLB as my second tractor has validity. Not yet at least....

I am considering renting a dozer for a weekend to shove together a couple HUGE burn piles from the heaviest layers of slash & debris.

Looking to the not so distant future, the next phase of my stump war will be clearing at least SOME of the trails the loggers left into decent riding trails for horse, mountain bike, and maybe even dirt bikes (not as likely, but maybe a few friends like LstInThot & his kids).

I don't have a TV, and when I did I don't watch reality TV, but I am living "Stump Wars" and it is kinda fun (plus great seat time). so consider me a fan!

Be well Frank,
David

 

[Grayson Klassen]

That's a lot of Aspen! Can't use it for boardwood? Too small? I've been able to push some trees over with my Dozer, which is a D3/4 size....depending on which model and the size trees, a D5 should do a bit better. But the excavator rules.....put the bucket against the tree, and start pushng....over comes the tree, with rootball.
Good luck!

I had a few loggers come look at it and for what I need to clear at current prices which are about 31$/ cubic meter (ton) it just isn't worth it. To log it myself requires too much equipment, so if I log it I will cut and stack it in 8 footers and deal with it later I guess.

Yes luckily aspen tend to send their roots out more than down so stumping with the cat should work out, but an excavator would be great, with a thumb even better.

 

[plowindeeper]

get a big dozer with a -v- cutting blade cuts stumps off at ground level

give them ten years to rot, and do a control burn, then just do a run through with a dozer

quick easy and cheap

 

[scoutcub]

HEY FRANK!

I'm Closer than SC, stop here first.

David

If you do start tv show, you can shoot one episode here...

My personal stump war has morphed and evolved as I get new and different equipment.

Right now I'm in the "Ratchet Rake Revolution" phase. I discovered with my temporary pasture area that the stumps left by the mulcher that are completely at ground level do not bother the horses at all it seems. So I am only grinding the ones that stick up, or in places that I need to level, etc.

The grapple works on the tops and big chunks of slash, and then the small stuff seems to "rake" pretty well with the RR. Yes, it gets caught on the ground level stumps, and larger roots, but some of those roots it breaks them enough that by using the cutting end of my tamping rod I can just pop those roots right out. But it seems to leave behind some places almost clear enough to toss some seed out and pray it grows.

I'm NOT making a field I could grow crops on, no plow will ever survive, but it should make just fine "Poor Man's Horse Pasture" and grow some orchard grass.

LstInThot's backhoe was awesome popping out a cedar and locust stump, but filling in and packing down those holes is complicated so I'm not sure my fantasy of buying a JD 110 TLB as my second tractor has validity. Not yet at least....

I am considering renting a dozer for a weekend to shove together a couple HUGE burn piles from the heaviest layers of slash & debris.

Looking to the not so distant future, the next phase of my stump war will be clearing at least SOME of the trails the loggers left into decent riding trails for horse, mountain bike, and maybe even dirt bikes (not as likely, but maybe a few friends like LstInThot & his kids).

I don't have a TV, and when I did I don't watch reality TV, but I am living "Stump Wars" and it is kinda fun (plus great seat time). so consider me a fan!

Be well Frank,
David

David -

Sounds like I need too bring the dozer AND Excavator!! But then you'd have to buy a dump truck.....or my pickup and a dump trailer.....

Will it ever end???:laughing::thumbsup::laughing:

Frank

 

[MossflowerWoods]

David -

Sounds like I need too bring the dozer AND Excavator!! But then you'd have to buy a dump truck.....or my pickup and a dump trailer.....

Will it ever end???:laughing::thumbsup::laughing:

Frank

Just bring the dozer for this trip. :thumbsup:

SLHawkins has a dump truck I suspect we can borrow...



David

 

[Ken45101]

I discovered with my temporary pasture area that the stumps left by the mulcher that are completely at ground level do not bother the horses at all it seems. So I am only grinding the ones that stick up, or in places that I need to level, etc.

What happens when those ground level stumps rot and leave a hole for a horse to step in? That's my fear with leaving any larger stumps.

Ken

 

[Hollow]

What happens when those ground level stumps rot and leave a hole for a horse to step in? That's my fear with leaving any larger stumps.

Ken

Once it gets to that point you'll have to disc the field to fill in the holes.