Follow up on removing stumps (PICS)

I posted earlier about removing a few stumps from my garden area.

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Pulling didn't work, so I tried the burning method suggested by guys on here.

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After a few burns and chopping it up in between, they are now gone.

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More work than I had thought it would be, but I'm ready for spring now.

even with a backhoe, stumps can be a real pain :wink:

in the real old days you would cut the tree and use the trunk with a chain to twist it out .

The stump was not nearly dug out well enough..doesn't look like any roots were cut off and why is that Drawbar in the High position..??

I use my OLD David Bradly chainsaw with the 10AC (1/2") chain for stump cutting...easy to file and murder on Roots..!!

Ron..

Since you posted this the last time I found this picture of a pine tree root I pulled out with a Massey Ferguson 165. I'd left the trunk about 6' long and hooked the chain up high for leverage, then cut off the trunk before this picture.

(quoted from post at 19:08:44 12/16/11) even with a backhoe, stumps can be a real pain :wink:

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I've found that with a little digging around the stump and the tree cut off as high as I can cut it the ole hoe pulls em right out!

Rick

Yep, I have learned a lot. This tree was cut down over a year ago, and I wish I had left a longer trunk to get some lever action with it. Hitch should be in the lowest position, and more digging and cutting of the roots.
I have since taken out 2 other stumps with the B and have had a lot less problems using those ideas. Thanks guys.

You're right about the leverage. I cleaned up an old hedge row between the 2 fields, that now have houses in them. I ratchet strapped a ladder to the tree, secured a choker in an appropriate place where it would not shear off the top, removed ladder and placed some tension on the line, so as not to drop the trees in the neighbors yard on the other side.

It worked so well, a few I did not have to cut, the darned carpenter ants had gotten in a few of these, or I would have left them alone. With enough extra chain, to clear the tractor from the path of the falling tree, from the drawbar I literally pulled this one right over, though I was facing down a slope, surprised but it came out easily.

I used to clear pipe and utility easements in NJ, was assigned an old 955 Catepillar, and the bucket was nice, sometimes I would dig around them, use the bucket height to push em over, some were just too dangerous, I would commandeer an excavator working on site, to the dislike of the of the foreman, my @ss under these trees, I did as saw fit or told em to hire a tree service outfit, some of them were downright huge old oaks and the like, and they can be hollow on top, from ants or otherwise, still look healthy/normal always dangerous work.