Grappling fun - A Picture Thread....

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Burying them around here doesn't work out because they were already on top of solid rock.
 
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My experience is it takes a bunch of fires to get a big stump to burn and if there's very many on the pile you can't get it to burn at all. On my recent land clearing I burnt all the stumps smaller than about 12" and hauled off the rest.
I only put one big ole stump on the pile at a time. And yeah it takes a few burns to 'bury' it. But I can't legally burn huge fires. Limited to 3ft by 3ft by law but I measure that as size of fire not pile. :D The regs aren't clear. :laughing: After a day burn the stump is a good base for the next few lights.

I quit burning, just too much work. Either I bury them (when I rent an excavator to take out key stumps I'll just dig a hole where they were and drop them back down) or I dump them elsewhere (now that I have a tractor that has more grunt, and a grapple!).
Maybe you have too big of equipment. You must not be wrestling big evergreen stumps with a BX sized tractor!
 
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Having to big of equipment isn't possible. I had to fight several big ones pretty hard with a 15,000 pound CTL. I couldn't turn the some of the big ones over with my tractor. Loading all of the big ones was a hopeless effort with the tractor. I had to use my backhoe to dig as much dirt as possible off as possible before the CTL would load them.
 
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Having to big of equipment isn't possible. I had to fight several big ones pretty hard with a 15,000 pound CTL.
Now you're talking! I'm humbled with only my little BX beast.
 
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Now you're talking! I'm humbled with only my little BX beast.
I know the feeling. I've never had that small a tractor but the big ones kicked my L3240s butt.
 
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Here's a picture from today's grappling adventures (pretty sure that this trunk was right around 2k lbs; I moved an even bigger tree trunk, but the tractor really struggled; one side of the trunk (a "Y") was kind of sliding on the ground- since I can't say that it was truly dead-lifted I can't claim it as a grapple trophy!):
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:shocked: No words. :shocked:
Travis
 
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Doing some thinning and off to the burn pile. I used to carry a grapple full down to the pile until I seen the use of a trailer here on TBN. Welding a hitch on the back of my Farmi has saved me miles of back and forth with my tractor.
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EA Wicked Grapple can just barely pick up my large square bales.

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Doing some thinning and off to the burn pile. I used to carry a grapple full down to the pile until I seen the use of a trailer here on TBN. Welding a hitch on the back of my Farmi has saved me miles of back and forth with my tractor.
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Yep, I have been known to load the 8x16 deckover, then hook on and pull it to the burn pile. :D

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