Stump removal

[roadhunter]

CAD, that is an interesting setup for burning stumps in place. Does the barrel make it draft like a rocket stove and burn the stump from the top down?

 

[Dadnatron]

I had an hour left on a rental mini excavator after finishing up putting in culverts so I took it out to a stump in the middle of a pasture thinking "I'll just pop this out of the ground". It was a Very old stump given the weathering and rot. No idea what it was, but I ended up with a hole about 12ft across and 6ft deep before that sucker could be loosened enough to take it out.

First time I've ever used an excavator to pull out a stump. Easier than a shovel by far... but it was no 'pop this thing out' like I thought it would. I think the ex size was 3T, so it wasn't huge.

 

[ovrszd]

I hired a large Linkbelt excavator to do some work recently. Hey, while you are here dig out this 24" Honey Locust stump, been dead 3 years. Took him 20 minutes.... depending on variety stumps come out hard.

 

[prichard]

I hired an operator and a dozer. She took out 20 trees and rough graded the house site. It was fun watching her knock the trees down stump and all.

 

[ovrszd]

I hired an operator and a dozer. She took out 20 trees and rough graded the house site. It was fun watching her knock the trees down stump and all.

Yep. Best time to remove a stump is when the tree is attached.

 

[farmer2009]

BIL rented a 25 ton CAT excavator a few years back. Was not impressed with its ability to remove stumps. Even stumps down around 20" took some digging. Most were 5-10 minutes per stump some longer. Now tree removal was fast. He could clear stumps just as fast with the D5.

 

[k0ua]

Yep. Best time to remove a stump is when the tree is attached.

Amen, I can pull over trees with my tractor and a chain, that I could never dig out/push over the stump.
If you get a chain up high enough in the tree, you can pull over some pretty good sized ones even with a tractor the size of mine. Especially a day or so after a good soaking rain. Trees become weaklings after a good soaking rain.

 

[yellowdogsvc]

I like your style. If you really want to turn wood into a valuable soil amendment that last for hundreds of years in your soil try making biochar with your wood waste. Letting wood rot does put some organic matter in the soil but it is typically short lived as the carbon is released back into the atmosphere where biochar lasts thousand of years and can make some serious improvements to your soil..

This is an excellent idea

 

[prichard]

Amen, I can pull over trees with my tractor and a chain, that I could never dig out/push over the stump.
If you get a chain up high enough in the tree, you can pull over some pretty good sized ones even with a tractor the size of mine. Especially a day or so after a good soaking rain. Trees become weaklings after a good soaking rain.

Hence the reason for the dozer. We haven't had rain in months and according to the weather guessers we likely won't have any for a couple more months. I would have prefered doing it myself but by the time I rented heavy enough equip for current conditions and took time off work it wasn't worth the cost difference.

 

[blooper]

Cheapest way around here is to hire an excavator. Blueberry growers this year paid about 7/800 per acre (cdn) for stumping and clearing. Most operators do around an acre a day.