Dirt Moving Pulled my first stump with my new to me KX121

[Code54]

I find that if I get fishing line and shoot an arrow about 40 or so feet up over a major limb, then pull a rope up then I dig around the bottom on 3 sides (Leaving most of the side I am pulling toward. Then give a pull with the tractor I can bring it down easily. I sometime do as LD1 and just use the mini and push it over but sometime they can really hold on and the tractor gets me a bit farther from the action. Sometime amazing how hard it is to get a tree pushed over! I take a lot of dead trees down so I don't like pushing directly on them a whole lot with the mini because there are a lot of dead limbs above me thus the rope thing....
That is a nice size stump and your 121 is a great machine for popping them out!

 

[Happy Gilmore]

You will learn going forward.....that if stump removal is in the cards......dont cut the tree down. Dig a little around it.....reach up high, push it over. Amazing what 10' of tree trunk for leverage can do.

Nice work on that stump.

I like that idea LD1.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

Got it roughed out, the blade sure is handy.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

I find that if I get fishing line and shoot an arrow about 40 or so feet up over a major limb, then pull a rope up then I dig around the bottom on 3 sides (Leaving most of the side I am pulling toward. Then give a pull with the tractor I can bring it down easily. I sometime do as LD1 and just use the mini and push it over but sometime they can really hold on and the tractor gets me a bit farther from the action. Sometime amazing how hard it is to get a tree pushed over! I take a lot of dead trees down so I don't like pushing directly on them a whole lot with the mini because there are a lot of dead limbs above me thus the rope thing....
That is a nice size stump and your 121 is a great machine for popping them out!

Another good idea Code54

 

[LD1]

I find that if I get fishing line and shoot an arrow about 40 or so feet up over a major limb, then pull a rope up then I dig around the bottom on 3 sides (Leaving most of the side I am pulling toward. Then give a pull with the tractor I can bring it down easily. I sometime do as LD1 and just use the mini and push it over but sometime they can really hold on and the tractor gets me a bit farther from the action. Sometime amazing how hard it is to get a tree pushed over! I take a lot of dead trees down so I don't like pushing directly on them a whole lot with the mini because there are a lot of dead limbs above me thus the rope thing....
That is a nice size stump and your 121 is a great machine for popping them out!

Yea, anything that makes it an otherwise dangerous tree, better safe than sorry. But with the reach I have with the backhoe, IT keeps me pretty far away already. Plus the 4-post metal cab is pretty stout.

I ripped out probably a hundred trees ranging from 10" up to ~30". Just use the ripper a few passes each side, reach up and push over.

Some were ~25"+ cotton woods (poplar family). Those were easy.
Similar sized ash trees....easy.

Maple....quite a bit tougher as they send big roots out in every direction. A 25" maple.....gotta start the ripper a good 2' away from the trunk, and even 2' away there are 8" roots to try to break.

But I think the hardest of what I had was the mulbury, and elms. None of those went willingly. But I dont think any of them took more than half an hour.

Which reminds me......if you plan on doing much more stump/tree removal.......you need to get yourself a ripper.

 

[k0ua]

Yea, anything that makes it an otherwise dangerous tree, better safe than sorry. But with the reach I have with the backhoe, IT keeps me pretty far away already. Plus the 4-post metal cab is pretty stout.

I ripped out probably a hundred trees ranging from 10" up to ~30". Just use the ripper a few passes each side, reach up and push over.

Some were ~25"+ cotton woods (poplar family). Those were easy.
Similar sized ash trees....easy.

Maple....quite a bit tougher as they send big roots out in every direction. A 25" maple.....gotta start the ripper a good 2' away from the trunk, and even 2' away there are 8" roots to try to break.

But I think the hardest of what I had was the mulbury, and elms. None of those went willingly. But I dont think any of them took more than half an hour.

Which reminds me......if you plan on doing much more stump/tree removal.......you need to get yourself a ripper.

I wonder if I could mount a 2 foot ripper on the right side of my old Kubota bucket? I was thinking about maybe a 2 inch hitch reciver (long one) and build a ripper that hangs down about 2 foot below the bucket. Easy to remove in a couple of seconds, do you think it would work?

 

[LD1]

What's the intended purpose? It's gonna struggle ripping roots of any size.

My backhoe has something like 13,000# force at the bucket and like 8500-9000# with the dipper. And there are times it struggles with 4-5" hardwood roots.

For plucking out saplings, or 6" trees, it might be useful though. But I would worry about racking the loader with it hanging off one end.

 

[Fallon]

I wonder if I could mount a 2 foot ripper on the right side of my old Kubota bucket? I was thinking about maybe a 2 inch hitch reciver (long one) and build a ripper that hangs down about 2 foot below the bucket. Easy to remove in a couple of seconds, do you think it would work?

If you back drag with your bucket it puts your curl cylinders in compression, where they are their weakest. With no lateral support they are very likely to bend. I lucked out before I knew better. Bucket spade on my pallet forks back dragging scraping & clearing out a trench to bury some drain pipe... fork popped of the frame before I bent a cylinder.

If you are talking about dripping going forward I'd be worried about wracking my loader. ESPECIALLY if it was not center mounted.

Your best bet would be a subsoiler or the like on your 3pt. It's designed for pulling stresses.

 

[Code54]

If you are talking about dripping going forward I'd be worried about wracking my loader. ESPECIALLY if it was not center mounted.

Your best bet would be a subsoiler or the like on your 3pt. It's designed for pulling stresses.

Have to agree - thinking a 3pt subsoiler/ripper would be the way to go.

 

[mike69440]

I wonder if I could mount a 2 foot ripper on the right side of my old Kubota bucket? I was thinking about maybe a 2 inch hitch reciver (long one) and build a ripper that hangs down about 2 foot below the bucket. Easy to remove in a couple of seconds, do you think it would work?

I think it would bend too easily.