Backhoe Ripper

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Looks like a great tool ! Lots of commercial excavation companies use rippers, not just for trees but just about anything where you need to bundle the force.

Just wondering: how many roots are left in the ground, and arent you afraid your shop foundation will settle when they rot ?

My father cut an oak at the end of the driveway when the mill in town, who brought hog feed in 50kg bags on a haywagon drawn by a 15hp Deutz, closed, and he had to order in bulk at a larger cooperation, whose trucks couldnt make the turn. Say somewhere in the 70s.

When i was a kid we layd pavers around it, so the top of the stump was flat with the pavers although it was still a hump..

In my early twenties the stump started sinking, and i paved pavers over it. Right now, theres a dimple in the street.

Off course this was a 2 feet oak stump, not some flywood roots, but i personally dont like the idea of decomposing organic material under a foundation: We always dig foundations at least 2 feet untill subsoil, though at my brother in laws house, on an old river arm, they dug 6 feet before finding subsoil without organic matter. Though we live in a river delta, no hard place in miles around
Minimal roots are left, I will still be grading down slightly which will remove most of the other roots.
The footers will still be 16in depth. Most of the roots will pull up while removing them.


As you can see, the rootballs are pretty complete.
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