Where do you hook your chain for pulling trees?

[lzicc]

Just for fun, here is my crazy wife on the lift limbing the trees. She is so awesome.

 

[Egon]

If the situation allows, don't cut the tree and then try to remove the stump.

Cut some roots, then push or pull the tree over, and the stump comes up attached to the tree trunk.

That's what windstorms usually do, and they have had lots of experience.


Bruce

That method works well. I've done it that way quite often.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I was just over at my neighbors trying to pull out an oak stump(24" minimum in diameter) that was cut at about 18" above grade. I had dug around it with my B26 TLB but it seems to have a bunch of vertical roots that I cant get to. I had my LS P7010 with chain hooked to drawbar, RPM at 1000 (just above idle) and in low range 1st gear just creeping and broke my 3/8" grade 70 chain. It just separated the link at the hook. The chain popped back a bit but not a lot. The loose links didn't reach back to the stump even.
I am going to try digging out some more with the backhoe, but if that doesn't work, I am looking for suggestions.

 

[BX23D]

I was just over at my neighbors trying to pull out an oak stump(24" minimum in diameter) that was cut at about 18" above grade. I had dug around it with my B26 TLB but it seems to have a bunch of vertical roots that I cant get to. I had my LS P7010 with chain hooked to drawbar, RPM at 1000 (just above idle) and in low range 1st gear just creeping and broke my 3/8" grade 70 chain. It just separated the link at the hook. The chain popped back a bit but not a lot. The loose links didn't reach back to the stump even. I am going to try digging out some more with the backhoe, but if that doesn't work, I am looking for suggestions.

that,s why one should use a chain rather than a cable. breaking cables tend to whip!
my suggestion would be a stump grinder.

 

[Egon]

Keep digging Gary. If you go done one bucket with you'll get to the point where you can slice off the tap root with the bucket and curl.

 

[hslogger]

If you like your tractor and value your life, forget the chain. Go to block and tackle systems using a deadman and your tractor connected to the tree. DISTANCE yourself and your machine. Hint. You don't need to hang a block right close to the tree. You can hang a chain or cable however far you want from the tree and then put your blocks on at that point. Work slow, work smart.

 

[Stargazer]

c4 or rdx would be my choice!

 

[davrow]

c4 or rdx would be my choice!

Ya beat me to it, Stargazer.

My wife and I are always saying to each other, while watching TV, "Why does everyone have C4 except us?"

 

[JRL305]

Here's how I do it. I just push the trees over with the tooth bar on the loader bucket, then drag them out where I can cut them up.

 

[Stonehaller]

I was just over at my neighbors trying to pull out an oak stump(24" minimum in diameter) that was cut at about 18" above grade. I had dug around it with my B26 TLB but it seems to have a bunch of vertical roots that I cant get to. I had my LS P7010 with chain hooked to drawbar, RPM at 1000 (just above idle) and in low range 1st gear just creeping and broke my 3/8" grade 70 chain. It just separated the link at the hook. The chain popped back a bit but not a lot. The loose links didn't reach back to the stump even.
I am going to try digging out some more with the backhoe, but if that doesn't work, I am looking for suggestions.

Try hooking the chain around a root on one side, wrap the chain around the other side of the stump so you are twisting the stump as you pull. The twisting can help break tap roots.

 

[zoltanthegypsy]

If you like your tractor and value your life, forget the chain...

I'm 10 years old, sitting with my bud outside his dad's blacksmith shop. We're watching a cat using a chain to pull a maple stump next door.

Suddenly a huge BANG and a great big dent in the metal shop wall behind us. I'm told the flying link missed my head by a foot or so. Would have pulped my brains like a ripe melon.

Just sayin',
Z.

 

[Tollster]

Not sure what size stump your pulling, but I learned a trick a long time ago, hook your chain low on the stump, then roll a tire over against the stump, route the chain cable over the tire, then hook on to the lowest point, closest to your axle, not on the 3 point. Then give it a good tug, it will pop out like a cork as the directional forces are up, and not side ways.. It also does very little damage to the ground if its in a well manicured area.

 

[lzicc]

I'm trying to visualize how this would work.

Not sure what size stump your pulling, but I learned a trick a long time ago, hook your chain low on the stump, then roll a tire over against the stump, route the chain cable over the tire, then hook on to the lowest point, closest to your axle, not on the 3 point. Then give it a good tug, it will pop out like a cork as the directional forces are up, and not side ways.. It also does very little damage to the ground if its in a well manicured area.

 

[bcp]

This is a bush, not a stump, but it illustrates the idea.

Bruce

 

[motownbrowne]

Just for fun, here is my crazy wife on the lift limbing the trees. She is so awesome.
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Sorry to be the safety police, but she's using a hand saw, right? One without an engine I mean. No chainsaw PPE in sight. Just checking.

 

[lzicc]

She is using a gas powered limber.

 

[RaydaKub]

Again, I'm digging some of the roots out first depending on the tree size. My main concern is a good place to connect a cable to on the tractor itself while the BH is still attached.

Here is a picture of some of the trees I'm talking about. These, I pushed over with the FEL.

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I'm still confused. The backhoe you have would finish that job pretty quickly. Why bother to pull or push at all?

 

[RaydaKub]

that,s why one should use a chain rather than a cable. breaking cables tend to whip!
my suggestion would be a stump grinder.

Chains can whip also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnzjGNEXFo

 

[CobyRupert]

Here's pictures of 60' + pine trees, probably 12" diameter and their good size root balls that I pulled over with a cable. Place cable as high as I would dare to go up on ladder (~16' or so).
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” -(paraphrase)-Archimedes (c.287 BC – c. 212 BC)

 

[DianneInVA]

I took the bar off when the BH is installed. Laughing at the tree to chain ratio...