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00:19 5/1/2024 CC showing full credit! (I realize it's provisional pending final resolution in 90 days, but still glad to see it. What's in your wallet? haha)

Ted Corriher's waterfront home.

#2, then #3, but waiting up to 90 days for the $$

Catawba attachments has a wicked 55 clone that is maybe 50 lb heavier. Same "free shipping" deal, $2600. Good: they have a few in stock. Bad: as soon as I post this, they will sell those and be backordered for 4 months by the time I get my $3k back on my CC. :cry: :ROFLMAO: They are 8 miles...

I ordered the wicked 55 from EA jan 3 2024. I was told delivery would be "in April". During April I tried contacting them to get a status update. Got absolutely no response to phone (mailbox full), email, or web form, but my order still was showing as "processing". Then I did a web search a few...

Addenda #2 : I have dug some big stumps (18" pine) using the backhoe to break surface roots and work them loose. Thank you all for the advice on not using the loader.

Sad addenda from the OP.... I finally ordered the wicked 55 from EA jan 3 2024. I was told delivery would be "in April". During April I tried contacting them to get a status update. Got absolutely no response to phone (mailbox full), email, or web form, but my order still was showing as...

This, exactly.

Ok, well, that settles it, I'm gonna go buy a $50k mini-excavator so I can dig up stumps. :ROFLMAO: Others have said and I agree, that a compact with backhoe is perfectly capable of digging stumps, just have to take your time and conservatively work within the limits of the machine.

Won't a post hole digger on a 25HP PTO drill through most roots? Only the corners and line braces will be round posts, all others steel t-posts. Other than at the 4 corners, the post locations can be adjusted slightly to avoid non-drillable roots. Also there is a big pine just inside one corner...

I plan to dig small-to-medium stumps with the backhoe, and flush cut or maybe grind the big ones. Thankfully, there's only a couple of biggish trees in the way. I whacked most of the brush and saplings last spring, and now that I have the tractor I need to widen so I can run a flail mower or...

Vivid imagination. :LOL: OP says brush pile, not a steep hill, 6' linear distance up the side, dumping bucket while raising boom.

2 acres are adjacent to other wooded property, but I think it's a legal requirement for ag zoning.

I need to cut a fire break around 2 acres of thick woods and install a 6' perimeter fence. The property was maintained until about 25 years ago. There are large mature oak, pine, and magnolia plus decades of undergrowth, mostly saplings/suckers and briar vines. Level flat ground, sandy loamy...

That's a cute little MF. As I posted earlier in this tread, I have looked at the Homestead unit online. Since my Kioti is a little bigger and heavier (5500 lbs), I wondered if a grapple specifically designed for a sub-compact might not go the distance.