How To Pull Stumps With A Harbor Freight Farm Jack by  

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1:14 "well I'm gonna start cranking this and see what happens". I remember my teenage years.

Went to Harbor Freight n the look from the clerk as I asked for the Farm Jack was hilarious as I waited in my nurses scrubs! Followed your video and I was proud as can be when I pulled the stump out! Thanks for posting your video!

Tried this out on a few stumps in my yard. Worked like a charm.

built this from your video five years ago and pulled many stumps not too large of course..... A belated thanx

Thanks for the idea. Paid $48 for the Harbor Freight farm jack with at 20% off coupon. Pulled two stumps this weekend that were 4 times the diameter of the stump in this video. Had to dig down to expose and cut the roots with a sawsall. When a sufficient number of roots are cut, you can get under a sturdy one with the jack and pull the stump out. I didn't need any tripod legs. Just be careful and make sure the jack is centered underneath one of the cut roots. Go slow and back it off if the jack wants to move sideways.

I need this tool in my life. It's PERFECT for ripping out stumps for when I'm cutting out shrubs and expanding my food plots for the deer on my property.

I was looking for farm Jack's specifically to do this and saw this (pulling some honeysucke)! Glad to see it works before I bought one. Didn't think about stabilizing it with boards! Excellent idea!

Good job. I'm in the market for a farm jack, and this one might work. Only thing I'd do different is: 1) Place a large wooden, or metal, plate under your base; might keep it from sinking too far and maybe keep jack from falling to the side. 2) Definitely check out any utilities that are nearby. Those dang roots could pull up a water/gas/elec line as strong as they are. Thx for the vid.

Mr Joe Robison! by far the best! and honest video no pre preps to make it look good, I can tell the force of the pulling power the way you made by a simple triangle footing support for the extraction Thank you for posting the awnswer that I was looking for Ma Friend!

Thanks for the video. We made a wooden tripod and it came out so easily. It allowed the jack to do it's job.

EXCELLENT ! I have that exact same jack and now know an EASY solution to my problem. I'm impressed on how hard it pulled.

100% success thanks to your video. That Farm Jack paid for itself!

I came to your video when searching to see if a farm jack could help me remove my old fence posts. I never thought about using it for small stumps - so thanks for the vid! Great job.

These Jacks are super handy! I've got one, and use it very often around the farm. Please be careful, as these Jacks tend to fall if the pins on the lifter doesn't fully engage. This comes from past experience.

Thanks for sharing this nifty and effective solution! I’m going to give this a go! By the looks of it, this should save me a lot of time and effort.

I bought a H/F farm jack after seeing your video. I used the bi-pod legs idea as well and it worked just like you said. Thanks very much. It was so much easier than the last root I dug out!!

I used the farm jack, pickaxe, chain, and a pruning saw. No 2 by 4s to stabilize. Took out 12 similar sized stumps in a day in the rain by myself. Thought I was gonna have a heart attack but it was very effective. Strong Jack. It helped to put a platform of some kind of wood under the base of the Jack to keep it from sinking into soft ground.

Well done and thank you for sharing. Once you sever those main roots these stumps give up the ghost. Thanks for the stabilizer idea. It’s a game changer.

Very Helpful and informative!, I have about 3 dozen Cedar Hedge Stumps to pull out, so guess I’m getting me a Farm Jack at the Local Princess Auto Store First! Well Done and Thank You!, Saved me a LOT of Back Breaking Work. I appreciate your Tips & Efforts.

ABSOLUTLEY awesome. Gonna definitely use this

I have dug out loads of stumps just using a spade , pick and crow bar and can testify that it is damned hard work , this certainly looks to be a better way !

Awesome idea, awesome video. Excellent production quality, script, and narration. You sir, are a master!

That works great for small stumps. Very ingenious. I once built an A-frame out of wood , with a chainhoist attached, which worked pretty good for pulling small to medium stumps.

An Epiphany came to mind about a Tree pulling jack......🤔 SHAZAM!! #GetnitDone💪🏼✌️Thanks...

Excellent work. I pulled many tree roots and wooden posts like this.

Great idea to stabilize the jack! I've spent years wrestling unstablized ones. Never again!

Thank you for the video, great job.

Tomorrow should be a nice warm day, so I WILL get that tree stump out of our front yard!! Thanks for showing and explaining how to do it!!!

Good job. I like the extra 2 by 4 making a tripod base. It is more stable than other videos pulling out stumps.

Thank you so much…so very helpful. Tripod =lifesaver!!

Fantastic idea! Thank you for the info!!

This was the move. I just made a video on how I put mine together but you put me on the right path.

Gonna do this exact set up. Great video.

Thank you. Worked amazing. Something extremely satisfying when you hear the roots rip and the stump begin to ascend from the ground

Good, clean job.

Nice review - thanks.

I am getting ready to remove a section of cedar fence. This will save a ton of time and wear on my back. Thank you for the great video. I can't wait to see more - subscribed.

A brilliant idea, Thank You.

Awesome Joe! I have the 2 of the same evergreens in my front yard...I am just going to hook them onto my F250 and yank them...but thank you for letting me see the roots!

Very nicely done sir

Awesome use of a handy man jack.

Thank you for making and sharing this video. It's very good. I need to perhaps purchase such a jack to help me remove a mailbox post that is broken at the top (for replacement). I'm trying to dig it out with a crow bar and shovel. But it's hard going, and don't want to make a huge hole. (Wish I could borrow one from my neighbor). Thanks for the video. It's short, clear, and to the point. Very nice. God Bless you and all your family.

I've thought about buying one of those jacks for quite some time. Now I know I definately want one......

Thank you for the tutorial video it helped out 🤘🤙

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Thx for the vid!

I'm totally surprised it didn't just sink into the ground! Worked fine, nice job. Those jacks were what many of the 1960s cars used stock equipment..

Awesome on the tripod. I have a bunch of deck post to remove

Good Job! Like the music.

Great video, thanks

This is great for smaller stumps , but anything twice size would have thicker roots. Would be nice to try it on something like that. Thanks for the upload

That frame is a good idea. A couple of ideas I would like to suggest: 1-place the jack base a a 2"×6", 2-use wing nuts on the threaded bolt to easy the legs on and off.

Very helpful, thanks

Thank you so much for this video you just saved me a lot of money, that would have gone to hired help

I've taken out several 12"+ stumps with a hilift, but I dig around exposing the roots, cutting them, then wrapping the chain around the roots to lift.

Great video. Thanks for posting it. What size chain do you recommend?

HELLO! LOVE HOW THIS WORKED!

I always use the same 3 simple tools when removing tree stumps; *my neighbors: "Moe, Larry, and Curly."*

Cool!!!!

Thank you

Awesome

I'm impressed with your tripod idea

thumbs up stump removal and thanks for checking out my channel.

Slick!

smart. thank you

Man I love this thing, made It so easier for me to get rid of the broken fence post .

very cool

Brilliant idea with the 2x4's. Going to Home Depot right now to pick a 2x4 and hardware! I've used a farm jack on a stump before, and I attached a 4 foot length of pipe on the jack handle - which provided a lot of extra leverage.

I'm removing 16 stumps. I'm glad i saw this before beginning.

Heh, Heh. Pretty cool considering I've had to dig around a stump that size with a hefty skid steer just to pull it out. I'm impressed!!

Awesome.. Harbor freight here I come… ty

Wheel trick is a good one too. Just remember to wrap a carpet around your chain.

Nice...

Brother where are you at.. let me wash that house 😂😂

I'm working on seven of those today.

It's also good for pulling T- post out of the ground

tomorrow's project! thanks

Niiiiiiiice!

On your 2x4 stabilizer boards, do you have the bolt holding them together loose? It seems if it was tight, it would pull the boards parallel to the jack rather than at the proper angle. I just purchased two boards tonight to set this up tomorrow and in looking at it, it seems it would need to be loose or they would draw too close together rather than spread out as in the video.

Next time at HF, pu a digging bar so you can loop the chain under the roots; I’ve had times when the chain slips off the stump!

Not a bad idea!

Now that's a way to pull out a stump.

How did you prevent the chain from sliding up? You have mentioned the hooks, but I cannot see where they been attached.

The music is jacked up

When I made a tripod on my farm jack two weeks ago the boards were not spread like yours They were very close to the jack which caused me to loosen the bolts to spread the boards out to make a more stable tripod. How did you get your boards further apart to make this stable tripod? thanks

Awesome video!!! well explained.

Great! I have 20 or so stumps a little smaller to remove. This going to help. Thanks

I bought a 42" farm jack from Harbor Freight after watching this. It is bigger and sturdier than I expected, but I think it would have been a good idea to buy an even bigger one. There is a 48" and larger at Tractor Supply. The reason to buy a bigger one is that you can use up all of your 42" travel pretty easily, with slack in the chain, size of stump, sinking into the ground, etc. Just when things are going good, you have to stop and start over to get another few inches of travel. At Harbor Freight, they kept these jacks hidden away in the back and I had to ask someone to get it.

What are you using to secure the chain to the jack? The chain I have keeps sliding off anytime there's any tension on the line.

Man thanks

BEAST MODE!!! 💪🏼🌳 Any questions? Didn't think so. 🤘🏼😎

We call those handyman/widowmakers

How did you keep the chain from slipping upward on the trunk of the stump?

I tried getting my grandma out from her favourite chair this way, but I broke the jack 😢 😂😊 Later on I tried getting my wife out from the kitchen to help, but her chain was to short 😂

Did you just wrap the chain around the stump or did you made a hole and hook it in with the chain?

What's wrong with the siding in the background? Use that farm jack with care. When I was young (14 -15 ) I worked at Guber's Fillin Station. A guy was lifting the front corner of his 5 ton dump truck (to heavy for the farm jack.) the handle got away from him and came up and cracked him right under the chin. Knocked him out colder then a piss ant. I'll never forget the sound of that handle smacking his head. Funny the stuff that sticks in your head Thanks doug.

its been almost 50 years since I lived there, but that sure sounds like a suburban Philly accent....

Whats the thickest trunk you think you can pull with that rig?

It looked to me like the foot of the jack was digging in so every pull of the lever was lowering the base of the jack and working against you. Maybe I was just seeing things. This could be addressed by screwing the base into a 3’ 2”x6”. But that’s hairsplitting... it worked great.