Tips on getting large stumps out of the ground?

[future_vision]

I have a few stumps this size and a bit bigger. I've done completely around them but they do not budge. Any tips how I might be able to get them out? I'm running a CAT 306 which I believe is around 15,000 lb. I want to say that I pulled a stump out bigger than this with roughly the same size excavator before, but I don't remember exactly what I did.

 

[4570Man]

A 306 would pull that right out the hole without any tricks needed.

 

[SPYDERLK]

I have a few stumps this size and a bit bigger. I've done completely around them but they do not budge. Any tips how I might be able to get them out? I'm running a CAT 306 which I believe is around 15,000 lb. I want to say that I pulled a stump out bigger than this with roughly the same size excavator before, but I don't remember exactly what I did.

Get the bucket teeth as far under as you can with the bucket only about 1/2 curled. Now apply downforce and curl simultaneously. Leverage should pop it.

 

[anomad]

Pine tree... Probably has a huge tap root going straight down.

 

[TMGT]

I have a few stumps this size and a bit bigger. I've done completely around them but they do not budge. Any tips how I might be able to get them out? I'm running a CAT 306 which I believe is around 15,000 lb. I want to say that I pulled a stump out bigger than this with roughly the same size excavator before, but I don't remember exactly what I did.

Red oak? They can be tough, I just pulled a 24+" (before flare) red oak out with my 8k lb backhoe, the biggest problem you have there is how low the stump is cut.

Just keep at it, sometimes they have some stout roots going straight down and takes a bit of wiggling. Try using the bucket to pry on the edge of the roots ball.

I try to uproot the tree if I know I'm taking the root ball out, if not I try to leave at least a 4ft tall section for leverage. Not that that helps in this case though.

Thats the stump from above tree after knocking as much dirt off of it as I could.

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[oldnslo]

Anfo and fill in the hole vs digging a hole.

 

[dodge man]

For those who don’t know, ANFO=ammonia nitrate fuel oil. In other words explosives.

 

[Rockbadchild]

that's how I would do it if one wouldn't budge, I would dig a big hole behind it, snap the roots around it then push it in the hole.

 

[future_vision]

Get the bucket teeth as far under as you can with the bucket only about 1/2 curled. Now apply downforce and curl simultaneously. Leverage should pop it.

I think I need to give that more of an effort. Dug completely around it and pretty deep. Just won't budge. Sounds like I just need more persistence

 

[paulsharvey]

Wiggle, push-pull, move 90 degrees, push-pull, dont beat, and once it's starts moving, like others said, curl it out

 

[4570Man]

I think I need to give that more of an effort. Dug completely around it and pretty deep. Just won't budge. Sounds like I just need more persistence

Are you using the rental 306 or your tractor backhoe? That shouldn’t be a hard job for a 306. An excavators strength decrease dramatically with reach. Drive the blade right up to the rootball.

 

[garry1p]

Pine trees have a long deep tap root, you just have to keep digging,otherwise let it rot forever or burn it.

 

[KennyG]

Pine trees have a long deep tap root, you just have to keep digging,otherwise let it rot forever or burn it.

This is a variable depending on the species and location. I've just taken out four old pine trees that were dying. None of them had significant tap roots. I dug around them and pulled them with my little 25 HP John Deere. They weren't huge, 1 to 2 feet in diameter.

With limited power, I've had luck putting tension on with a ratchet hoist to another tree and them lifting and pulling with the tractor.

 

[Runner]

This is doing you no good now, but leaving a taller stump gives you more leverage to pull with on the next one.

 

[Barker806]

Dig Forest dig! You need to break up the soil under the stump. Once you get the stump or rock to wiggle it will come out. Try spinning the stump after you get a bit deeper.

 

[terraformer]

Pour a pile chicken litter or other manure on it and wait a year.

Burn it out.

Cut off flush to ground.

 

[Little Red Tractor]

If you have the space and ONLY if you know what you're doing, the ANFO solution works--but has some built in problems. Filling in the hole can be tough. My grandfather cleared property with dynamite, but that was in the 1930s when you could just buy it at the local hardware store.

 

[TORQUIN]

When I dig stump with my 9' Kubota back hoe, I just keep digging around it until I can lever it around to loosen it up. Sometimes it takes a while. I have only been unsuccessful a couple of times, with 30+ diameter stumps. The tap root varies, depending on the tree species.

Chris

 

[Runner]

When I dig stump with my 9' Kubota back hoe, I just keep digging around it until I can lever it around to loosen it up. Sometimes it takes a while. I have only been unsuccessful a couple of times, with 30+ diameter stumps. The tap root varies, depending on the tree species.

Chris

Once you get that stump moving, even a little bit, you've got it by the azz.

 

[future_vision]

Are you using the rental 306 or your tractor backhoe? That shouldn’t be a hard job for a 306. An excavators strength decrease dramatically with reach. Drive the blade right up to the rootball.

I'm using the 306. Was going to give it a go before work today but time didn't work out. I'll give it a try in the morning,