Save yourself some time by not digging a hole on each side of the stump. Just run your bucket into the ground on each side of the stump to break the roots loose and then drop the dirt right back where it was. Your method takes to long. A lot depends on the moisture content of the ground, the soil appears to be very dry in this video. Otherwise the 320 should have no problem popping those small stumps out.
Not bad at all for a "rooky" just dont overthink it. No need to dig that much on stumps that easy with a 320. Should be a one swipe deal most of the time. Sink that bucket behind the stump and roll it out. Pine is easy that 320 will do it no prob
he has the thumb down first mistake, pull stumps with thumb up, and sink in the bucket then leverage out the stump. I am pulling 3ft. Diameter sycamore with a little JD, 200, in half the time it takes him to pull a pine.
mhoovers52 Why can't he put the manual thumb up you just remove the link pin to the turn buckle and fasten it up on the arm. That comment shows you don't know what your talking about I prefer the manual thumbs because I do burning. They don't make a thumb you can't put up on the arm out of your way!
mhoovers52 If you can't take the truth, then that is your problem, I simply haven't had the time to film or post videos, working 7 days a week, trying to move frogs. This one jumped in the cab with me! i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj132/chainsawprof/20160219_135124_zpsush7ocwm.jpg it not fun until your at a 45 degree angle with a huge stump sinking in Quicksand, or falling in on a 3 ft. Diameter cast iron coal mine drain. Or cracking though the tree roots your walking on into a 4 foot deep hole where water has washed out from under the tree roots. I am working to clean up old coal mine land in hell, would love to be in easy pull pines. Dig down snap the tap root, pop them out, with the thumb down you can't get deep under to the tap root! Dam I am tired of mud, leaches, and mud excavator slide rides on slick dolomite clay. Had the excavator stuck three times today, lucky was able to pull stumps back down flip them and walk back out on top of them using them as pads. Maples are going for that!
mhoovers52 PS, if nothing else you can chain and boomer the dam thumb out of your way, but it looks like the thumb on his machine is designed to be pinned back against the arm!
Yessir most folks would think that there's nothing to operator an Excavator. Well I can imagine you can tell them a thing or two now, after having this one for a few days. You've done well with the short time you've had this one. Good job 'Rookie' ! ( Now I'm not saying that as a 'poke' at you, but in respect of what you've now learned. )
The strength of an excavator is the bucket, not the stick or boom. First sink the bucket behind the stump and curl it. Those small ones should come right out. If you don't want the machine rocking dig from the side. With big stumps dig a trench on one side the crawl around and pull the stump into the trench. If it wont go dig on either side then pull it. I have dug thousands of stumps with backhoes, best is my John Deere 510. I got on a big excavator and though it would be a breeze., uh, no. I pulled on a small stump and the thing just tilted over. Of course not having the bucket and stick on the same lever like God intended every time I tried to curl the bucket and crowd the stick the boom would jump out of the ground, grrr. I have dug a lot of pine lighter stumps, pulling them is like pulling teeth with an eight foot long tap root. With the backhoe I dig the trench, move to that side and start curling the bucket and crowding the stick. If it did not come right out but was moving I would start pulling up with the boom and rocking it side to side with my left control. With the long boom and inertia of swinging the entire machine that wont work with an excavator.
+Robert Ralph video is fine and its a nice machine, but I like to take the trees out before the dozers come in, because the stumps dont get lost and then you have the leverage to just push most of them over whole, and handle them whole with a thumb. Even a heavy dozer can waste a lot of time trying to push big trees down. I am in steep mountain country and like to rough in roads with an excavator, then clean them up with a dozer and backhoe.
also stump grinders do not get the entire stump.. so your bottom plow or chisel could/would catch on some of the leftovers. Also, in time the stumps decay and leave narrow and deep sinkholes all over the land. Not good for walking across whether human or equine/bovine.
Isn't it amazing how well entrenched some stumps are? I've had ones that I thought would be hard and they were easy, then I've had some that were real buggers to get out without making a minefield of the place. Your tips were very good, especially about being on a good footing when you start... unless you like rocking and rolling LOL.
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This is why I would never post a video, too many know it all but don’t have a job to go to and have too much time on their hands to sit around and criticize other people’s videos.
