smfcpacfp said:
I just wonder what you guys think of giving the tree a push with the bucket high to get it moving in the right direction.
No way.
It could kill you pretty easy, the leaning tree can snap over the top of the tracotr. But most of us will never die, so that argument will fall on deaf ears.
If it leans the wrong way, it can be much havier than it looks, and your tractor will not be able to push it. This at best leaves you at a stalemate. How are you going to rescue your tractor?
What if the tree snaps at the base & comes over on your tractor?
Let's say it falls over the right way when you push it. The base often (enough) will whip back past the stump as the top snags on something. Or, the tree comes down & the butt end whips up into the air. Either of these can mess up the front grill or loader of your tractor.
I know nothing will happen to you or me ever; but, what about your tractor? Do you really want to mess it up?
You can get a chain/ cable longer than the tree is tall. (My great-unkle lost his leg to trying to pull a short limb off a tree with a short chain. They cut 1/2 the limb, pulled, and din't know the tree trunk was rotten. Whole tree fell over, top knocked him off the tractor and under the steel tractor wheel. Ground his leg off.) Always make sure the chain/ cable is long enough.
Then pull the tree over much as you did with the come along.
Don't push it with the loader bucket.
--->Paul