Who needs a backhoe? Lol when you got a stump bucket

[Nb707]

Just purchased a Stump bucket yesterday because I needed to install a culvert over a farm creek the culvert is 2 feet in diameter by 20 feet long. The creek runs full-time and the previous landowner filled the creek bed with rocks and boulders to get farm tractors across to the other 10 acres. This stump bucket worked great at first I was going to rent a backhoe. But decided to purchase the stump bucket instead within an hour I had the thing all cleaned out with the my tractor and stump bucket. I have a little bit more work to do but I was quite surprised. Obviously it痴 not as good as a back hole but in this case it was pretty darn close. Versus renting a backhoe for $250 for the day and buying this stump bucket $550.00 now I can use it for other things.

 

[two_bit_score]

They can sure be useful.

 

[Doug62]

Which stump bucket did you go with?

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

My neighbor just used a stump bucket on her old Steiner to dig a trench for a gas line almost 200' long. It worked surprisingly well. The trench is only about 20" deep, but will suffice.

 

[Nb707]

Which stump bucket did you go with?

I bought the Tomahawk from a dealer at first I was skeptical but for me it works surprisingly well for what I need to do

 

[Xfaxman]

Using the stump bucket to make a shallow trench to drain a low spot:

Using the stump bucket to pop out an old cedar tree stump:

Using the stump bucket to remove a long dead tree trunk:

 

[Egon]

Okay, make that four feet deep.

 

[Xfaxman]

I have never needed a trench four feet deep.

Here is a one about 2.5 feet deep:

Water lines here are buried 2 feet deep. If I needed something deeper I would get one of these:

Or a trencher: