OMG ...right? They also had to make the tools to do it by hand first. I bet they damned well took care of those tools unlike my guys who think cleaning and oiling a tool is ridiculous.
Yea, I noticed that the backend of the Rooster was lifting off the ground on some of them when he was trying to pull them out. Still, a great tool. Wish I had something like it at my old house.
Cool. I just watched a video using draft horses and a fulcrum to pull stumps. Man animals and men had it tough. Amazing what our ancestors accomplished.
I thought I had seen every excavator attachment made. I have never seen one of these. That is a cool tool right there. That sure would make burning the stumps a lot faster. I live in the Southeast and have pulled quite a few stumps with my machinery. I pulled one up that was taller than a Toyota Tacoma pickup (had to dig on that one a bit). Oh and I really like the rake on the Deere back there too. Actually came close to getting one of those for my Kobelco.
Love the concept of being able to break the stump up while it is still in the ground. Digging stumps and hauling them whole is ineficient and expensive as hell. Great video!
That thing is cool, much more manageable pieces to handle and a lot less soil displacement too. Always amazed at just how strong a stump can really be.
What an unreal tool for the job. My friend had a feild to stump on his piece and this would expedite the process nicely. How do the teeth hold up to rocks? We grow em big out here in Maine.
That is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen! Of coarse it won’t help me with my small suburban backyard stump removal. But it surely was fun to watch. Thanks, and I hope you weren’t stung.
I know from experience how much force it takes to move a stump. We had a 100 ton Koehring Harvester coming to a dead stop in low gear. The operator asked us mechanics to come out and take a look at the machine. When we saw the machine come to a dead stop we had never had this problem before. When the machine went in reverse it was fine. When going forward it would run okay for a little bit and then stop. I went to the front of the machine to see if there was any issues with the front drive axle. Then I noticed the poplar stump that was sticking out of the ground about a foot and a half snagging the tow cable which was hanging a little low and sure enough that stopped that machine right now.
Live in Central Oregon. We have lava rock rock everywhere. Tree stumps are just as costly to demo. I just purchased a heavy duty Blue Diamond Auger then got a Spiral Stump Spliter...amazing. What used to take 1 to 2 hrs w/ a Cat E70 and Rockhammer...now I can split stumps w/ my Terex TSR50 in 20 minutes. a 3 ft dia fresh stump...30 minutes into 8inch shreds so a 8000 lb mini can finish it off. We get charged $150 per stump to dump. No one can use them. But if you shred them...cheap dump fee...and it goes out your tail gate.
I think that I shall never see .... a poem as lovely as a tree. I wish, of course, that there could be .... a tree that's left for me to see. A lumber firm from out of town .... has chopped the whole darn forest down. But I'll show up those lousy chumps. .... I'll go and write a poem called "Stumps"!
Saw teeth reminds me of ridge on back on some dinosaur reconstructions. Claw harkens to dinosaurs also. People who don't work around trees always underestimate how extremely heavy (dangerous) a little 6" dia "branch" can be, and similarly no idea how much force it takes to remove stumps. Splitting stumps in 2 or 4 is very smart.
That's one mean and aggressive looking tool. When I was young I used a 580 CK backhoe to dig out stumps on my parents property in the Olympic Peninsula. Equipment like that sure makes short work of laborious work. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work machines.
Sorry, Pal. I went through that for WAY too long. Get out the little green book and commence to begain.You act goofy enough to work in a quarry. Me too, or DID since it started in the 70's off and on. Look at my account picture and you'll get that warm fuzzy feeling that you're about to get scorched. I did, several times.
My last jag was 13 1/2 years between c.d.l. and when the dump trucks were full and it was too cold to pour concrete. I just despise the politics of it now. Hope you can stay at home for a good full time job. I'm snagged trying to clear house sites at high end developments. Goofy people with WAY too much money.
I would suspect that you have it a little bit easier with the ground having a very high sand content and those trees didn't look that old either. Do you think you'd have a tougher time with an older tree with better established roots in a more earthy landscape? Great design, looks fun.
If the stump was from a live hardwood tree, you would need to go after the roots first, then roll it out of the hole. Then drop it in the bed of the boss’s pickup.
Para Dux Agreed, I call bull on thumb with bucket pulling much out but dirt. I have ran a excavator and the thumb and bucket is good for some of these tasks but the 3”or so wide blade concentrates the pulling force over much smaller surface area. The bucket would just sit there and bog down and pull the excavator up like it was doing in a few spots with just the hook and ripper blade. Much more efficient at ripping up the stumps to then have the other machine come and pick up the trash. Nothing more frustrating when running a thumb and bucket and just having a machine with 60K pulling force just working hydraulics to a standstill...much better use of physics with the smaller width blade.
When I was a boy, Granddad would just build a huge pig pen around the field that he had cleared. In a couple of years or so, the pigs would have gotten the ground ready for ploughing cultivation, and he would plant potatoes or some other hardy crop. He was from the old country you see.......: ) He had to pull the remaining stumps with the horses however. It was amazing what the pigs can do with their noses. I liked your video, it brought back many memories for me. Thank you.
Screw 'em ... you live in the State of Anarchy !! We once blew a "reluctant" stump on Cypress Island, Wa a QUARTER mile (it sank a pleasure boat) this was about 1959 This is the same site as the infamous "Fish Farm Escape of 160,000 Atlantic Salmon" I read it as an escape from a Gulag in the Soviet of Washington
@@molyoxide164 It is certainly unnecessary, messy, and cumbersome. I want to see a bucket take a similar stump up side by side. Then I will make my decision final. Lol
Seems to me that might work better to dig around the stump breaking the root and then pulling the stump with that butt scratcher .Many ways to skin a cat tho
We use a different rig. It tips out small and medium stumps then a hydraulic thumb type appendage snips the stump up. Large stumps have to tear out roots first.
Wait until you see some of the wood. There's a walnut thats around 36" at the base. It's not black walnut like you get but it's dark. A Pacific Yew that's 28" with a massive crotch section. Some coooool stuff I'm hoping to pick up this weekend.
@@NorthwestSawyer sounds like a fair exchange. You destroyed their home, they give you some temporary discomfort. I once lifted my off road helmet visor to get cool air in about 150 metres away from home after hours of hard off road adventure biking. Doing maybe 40kmh. Bee flew into my helmet, stung me in the corner of my eye, the side closest to my nose. Nearly crashed trying to pull it out (reactionary). Looked like I had gone two rounds with Mike Tyson, minus blood. Bloody sore.
I was just thinking man its so much work to remove stumps we must find a way to build with trees still alive like build on top of them or some other way which we don't know yet......possibly never.
This thing made a hell of a mess... all that swinging & digging you could have used a bucket & dug it out & it would have been ten times cleaner of a job.....
Although it's a lot more fun just setting a charge and blowing the stump out, I have to admit this way is a lot more sensible and faster than digging a hole for the charge. Makes a lot less small pieces of kindling wood too.
My dad told me about how his dad would often use about a quarter stick of dynamite from the local hardware store on big stumps to blow them out of the ground right into a trailer. Sadly can't do that anymore because of government meddling.
