JHOLLAND1
Titanium
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- Oct 8, 2005
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- western washington state
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A few sticks of gelly will cure your stump problem,just try not to land one on the neighbours roof.
This brings back memories - I tried pulling stumps with a little tractor like that and it was a dangerous waste of time on my property even with 24,000 lbs of pull . . . the stumps just sat their and didn't so much as make a popping sound.
I then bought a TD7E with a 6-way blade and used it to dig around the stumps (far larger than shown in this video) After a summer of weekends working about 24 hours each weekend I only had gotten about 40 stumps out (the largest were between 8 and 14 feet across and some had been dead since the 1902 Yacolt burn and the largest stumps were actually snags often 30 - 50 feet tall and it took a bit of rigging to get them to fall over where you wanted them to land. I got to the point where I could get a fresh 20 inch diameter tree stump out in less than an hour . . . but anything bigger than 36 inches and the time went up by the square of the diameter after that.
I burned the first big pile of stumps over a week long period - largest fire I have ever had to manage. Took 15 gallons of diesel and a road flare to get it started properly and then you couldn't get within 60 feet of if for a couple of days. I just kept pushing it in with the dozer as it burned down.
After that I decided it was going to take way too long to get the rest of the stumps out and I hired a local Cat skinner with a D9 dozer with a Semi-U blade and stump splitter on the back. A stump that would take me 8 hours to dig out, tip over, and push out of the crater I had made . . . this big dozer could spit into 4 pieces in about 10 minutes and then push them out onto the surface and then go onto the next one while I would take my dozer and grab the quarters one at a time and move them to the burn pile. Tag teaming we cleared more stumps in one weekend than I had cleared in an entire summer.
I cleared 15 acres and the next weekend we moved about 60,000 cu ft of dirt to make a building site . . . fun times when you are young and don't know what you don't know.
How do you get big stumps to burn? I've pushed out some big ones, 8 ft or more in diameter balls, left them dry for a year, pushed big piles of brush around and over them, burned the piles and the stumps are left behind almost untouched.
How do you get big stumps to burn? I've pushed out some big ones, 8 ft or more in diameter balls, left them dry for a year, pushed big piles of brush around and over them, burned the piles and the stumps are left behind almost untouched.
In the video are they running a cable directly from the winch to the stump, or is there a block and tackle out of sight (kinda see a few cables early in the video)?
Don't burn them. Hack off the longer roots then post them for free on a woodturning forum. (cutting the big ones in half can help) Root balls can have some interesting figure. It's tough to get most turners to pay for them unless there's something clearly exciting about it, but they'll usually take free all day long.
It's amazing how densely packed the dirt is between the roots, isn't it? Can't even dig it out with a machine properly.I've got a pile of stumps out back. I must have started that pile 12 years ago. It has 6-8 stumps is all. The stumps in are well blackened from the yearly brush fires that get burned on around and over them. Heck it took better than three years just to get the rocks and soil to drop loose. ;-)
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This is my 1952 Fordson, with a 12ton Boughton winch. Very useful tool but when it comes to stumps I'd rather have an excavator.
How do you get big stumps to burn? I've pushed out some big ones, 8 ft or more in diameter balls, left them dry for a year, pushed big piles of brush around and over them, burned the piles and the stumps are left behind almost untouched.
It's amazing how densely packed the dirt is between the roots, isn't it? Can't even dig it out with a machine properly.
Nowhere in the category of big stumps, but I have pulled thousands of mesquite bush stumps. Mowing them down did nothing, spraying them with diesel and roundup knocked them down for a few months, then they would come back, the thorns on those suckers would go right thru a leather boot. Found a grubbing attachment for a tractor, it was made to go on 3pt hitch, I modified it so it would slide onto the fork carriage of JD loader. Bush might only be 5 ft tall, but the tap roots were 10 to 15 feet long. I spent 2 long summers clearing mesquite, hope to never do that again.
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