The most dangerous trimming of the tree branch with a John Deere backhoe in my life..

[oldballs]

I've done something similar from the back of my truck. Cleaned up about 400 feet of Osage Orange last Fall IIRC.....

Oh well, it was the Fall of 2020.....and a duplicate pic.

 

[Smokeydog]

I've been thinking of building something like that, but taller so the tractor can move it and stabilize it while on the ground, but I could stand on the top, 10 - 12 feet high.

Bruce

I’ve thought the same thing. Got 10’ frames to put under it at times. Just the climbing up and down. The older I get the further the ground looks while your up.

 

[Thomas]

In my younger days I'd get a try....key word younger.

 

[Sportsman762]

I did this a few winters ago with a Ford 655D. Had a limb hit me in the face and throw my glasses off. Had to have my friend who was in the tractor lower the bucket so I could find my glasses. Not what I would call safe. But you have to do what you have to do some times. I had made a mistake of mis judging what the limb was going to do.

 

[WranglerX]

I did this a few winters ago with a Ford 655D. Had a limb hit me in the face and throw my glasses off. Had to have my friend who was in the tractor lower the bucket so I could find my glasses. Not what I would call safe. But you have to do what you have to do some times. I had made a mistake of mis judging what the limb was going to do.

That is usually when one gets hurt....

 

[Kessler Farms]

Just a little friendly advice, if you will undercut the limb slightly, it will fall straight down, rather than hinge down and bounce back. It's always dangerous, but you're making it much worse than need be.

 

[IXLR8]

My neighbors were both in their mid 70's when I saw them do something similar. The wife was in the bucket trimming tree's up high and her husband was at the controls of their front loader. When I realized what they were doing, I walked away, I couldn't watch.

 

[Smokeydog]

Sadly most of tractor fatal accidents around here involve trees. Wether cutting or bush hogging. Many Injuries go unreported.

 

[jkk04]

I have a lot of experience doing so but it's still too dangerous to cut the branches with a tractor bucket even if it was safer than a ladder
I wouldn't do again myself due to my age.

 

[5030]

Like Forrest Gump said... "Stupid is as stupid does.' If I did that, I'd never have did a video of it or posted it on here. To me, it just exemplifies how ignorant you are.