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Re: T-man and stumps
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Posted by Dsl on April 09, 2000 at 10:44:07 from (216.58.4.107):
In Reply to: T-man and stumps posted by Lew on April 08, 2000 at 20:30:14:
Just remember that tracked machines can go over backwards, too, so using one of them, and some of the questionable methods described here still equals 'funeral'. A guy I bought a tractor from a couple of weeks ago told me that he saw his best friend roll a crawler over backwards on himself(uh-huh--fatally) just loading it on a trailer. He had run crawlers for years professionally, too. DIG out big stumps, don't pull them out. The army, renting our land for years for a paratrooper and heavy equipment training ground, drove D9's up the side of big trees to uproot them. A young fella at the time, I seriously questioned the wisdom of standing a 25+ ton crawler on it's rear idlers.
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