Pulling stumps

wroughtn_harv · May 28, 2002

I'll try to take some more pictures today. A bud up the road from the shop has some six inch caliper trees he's talking about removing. If the time happens I'll see about trying the little thingy dingy whatchamacallit whoozit on something more substantial.

wroughtn_harv · May 28, 2002

You didn't notice how all those works of art pictures are taken from some distance?

The thingy dingy is crude and rough. But can you imagine walking in to the house and answering your wife's "what'd you do today dahlin'?" with "Had a great day sweetheart, spent two hours making a thingy dingy."

There's a couple problems there just begging to come out and dance all over the house. The first of course is trying to define thingy dingy and just how it works to someone smarter than yourself. Then there's the inevitable mention of just how much income was generated by the construction of the thingy dingy or if it was just playing, again, still, yet.

billboe · May 28, 2002

But can you imagine walking in to the house and answering your wife's "what'd you do today dahlin'?" with "Had a great day sweetheart, spent two hours making a thingy dingy."

I think you'll have a more difficult time if you came in and said "Had a great day sweetheart, spent two hours playing with a thingy dingy." /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Michael_S · May 28, 2002

Hey Harv,
I'm just a hop and a skip south of you down Hwy 78. If you want to test it on something larger, I've got about 50 oaks between 6 -18 inches in diameter to pull.

Just talked to a dozer operator today about pushing 'em out.

wroughtn_harv · May 28, 2002

Check out this mimosa!

wroughtn_harv · May 28, 2002

Well Mike I do have some changes. Bigger tractor and bigger chain along with a little safety thing I figured out today.

This mimosa all my tractor would do was spin wheels. I broke the quarter inch chain. The loose part of the chain did come at the tractor, not deadly fast, but it did land near the tractor.

So valuable lesson number one, use a long 5/16 chain. Long enough where you can attach the business end at the bottom for exerting pull and the loose end should also be attached to the tree so if it breaks it'll stop at the tree.

With tail tucked firmly between legs I called a bud with his Dodge dually, fourwheel drive and limite slip both axles.

I hooked him up. We had three folks standing saying there was no way in hell that truck was gonna do anything but dig some big holes.

It never spun a wheel. The thingy dingy worked like a hose at a water balloon fight.

And yes, I made that bumper. Bud's got a new Dodge due in any day. If he unloads Flour Power (the name I gave for his strut truck) he swears the bumper goes to the new one.

Ozarker · May 28, 2002

Just a suggestion................. I always white out licenses plates before I post a picture of a vehicle on the internet.

jdrotert · May 29, 2002

OK, What would it take for you to make me a bumper just like that one for my new 1-ton Ford. IT's BEAUTIFUL!!! And it'll fend off all those deer that tend to get in the way!!

wroughtn_harv · May 30, 2002

OK, What would it take for you to make me a bumper just like that one for my new 1-ton Ford. IT's BEAUTIFUL!!! And it'll fend off all those deer that tend to get in the way!!

A ton, more than you want to pay (grin)

Actually my bud wanted a killer bumper and he's a young guy who's climbed up under my wing. And to turn him down would be unfamily like you understand.

The ducks on the grill are a standard aluminum item at your local wrought iron supply house. They have little steel tabs cast into them when they're made so they can be glued to a steel item. Bud is a hunter deluxe and so when we were finishing it up he happened to be cruising through one of my catalogs and went bananas over them.

The way I originally made it I had some sleeves over the top bar. Some wild bent tubes come off the sleeves and went to a bar that fit over the hood and touched down on the wrap arounds on the sides.

It was neater than not having a boss.

It looked like you couldn't open the hood without removing the bumper and grill guard. But in reality you tilted the over the hood part forward and then the hood came right up.

Like I said in an earlier post the concept came from seeing the super kewl grill and bumper guard Stinger makes for the Hummers.

It would be cheaper to have a local make it for you. The main tube is three inch schedule forty (3 1/2 o.d.) The front hoop is inch and a half schedule forty (1 7/8 o.d.) and the wrap arounds are inch and a quarter schedule forty (1 5/8 o.d.).

I looked at your web page and there's something you might consider since you have such dahlin' kids. Make sure you find out just how your air bag sensor is activated. If you make a killer bumper and in a crash it prevents the air bag from inflating it could be, a killer bumper.

BTW in the old days I raced desert on a Yamaha 465. Now that was fun. I belonged to a grand prix club. We raced over circuits that were generally half asphalt and half open country.

Now I make things.

Awhile back we had some pains that were of a nagging scarey sort. So I went to the doctor. He xrayed the old neck. The first question was about just what had I done in my youth. But I had fun. And to be truthfull, I'd change very little. And nothing about being on two wheels at speed. Even the time I woke up forty five miles away from where I'd crashed and with a broken Bell.

bgott · May 31, 2002

"Make sure you find out just how your air bag sensor is activated. If you make a killer bumper and in a crash it prevents the air bag from inflating it could be, a killer bumper."

Airbags are activated with an inertia switch, actually two of them and maybe more on some cars. You need to trip both of them to inflate the airbag. They are basically switches activated by a little ball held in place by a spring. If you hit something hard enough to knock the little ball loose it completes or breaks, I can't remember which, a connection between contacts. The bumper won't affect how the switch works unless you screw it up installing the bumper.