Why A FEL?

[Tom_Trees]

Harv, what are you using to help in the weed pulling? It looks like I might be doing it the hard way.

I loop a length of chain around the trunk and clip it to the grab hooks on my bucket, then lift while moving forward. Are you using forks set close together?

Tom

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>Are you using forks set close together?</font color=blue>

Yep. Forks plus chain wrapped all around. That pict came very early on in my tractor experience, and the associated episode resulted in the original Stupid Tractor Tricks thread. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Although I have used the fork/chain technique successfully a few times now, I'm not sure I would call it a great way to remove saplings. There have been other threads discussing better methods, some of which require implements I can't afford right now. I keep telling myself that the 3pt (and a suitable attachment) would provide better lift at a better angle, but when I only have one or two to do, I'm too lazy or in too much of a hurry to remove my boxblade and figure it out. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

 

[Tom_Trees]

<font color=blue>Although I have used the fork/chain technique successfully a few times now, I'm not sure I would call it a great way to remove saplings.</font color=blue>

Well, to steal a common expression, if all you've got is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Unlike the member whith the armstrong equipment, I have to turn some of this over to my Mexican co-worker, Manuel Labor. I'd rather use the FEL and some chain than the 3-inch mattock. I did try this on a 4 1/2 inch stump about three feet tall this week. Didn't lift the back end, but the front started to go down. I looked down and saw the front tires flattening out and decided that Manuel's gonna have to do the larger ones./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Tom

 

[Jeff396]

I had to read that twice....Manual Labor!!! Made me laugh out loud!!

Jeff

 

[Von]

Harv, You missed one, Its sure beats draging your deer in the fall!

 

[DFB]

Sure makes it easy to move the ol' wood chipper around the yard. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

DFB

 

[Jag]

Harv, the little 3pt tree puller I had made works great on up to 3 inch saplings. For now while clearing field edges and old fence lines...run the dozer taking out the big stuff, then the tree puller taking out the 1-2inch saplings, brush hog, then the disc and leveler. Getting to run the tractor two or three times over the same ground gives plenty of seat time, and gives a great looking job.

 

[Harv]

Von -
Good example. Guess it all depends on your hobbies, though -- the deer on my property just keep on walking. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

DFB -
Since it's so easy to move that fine-looking chipper, maybe I could persuade you to move it on over to my place for a while. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Vermont isn't that far from Californy, is it? /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

BTW -- did you pay extra to have it match the color of your tractor so perfectly?

 

[John_Mc]

Jag -

Got a picture of that 3 Pt tree puller? I'm clearing some trails (some of which were logging roads at one point) through a wooded area. There are a bunch of sections that are overgrown with lots of 1"-2" saplings. I've been brush hogging them, then trying to yank out the stubs with the box blade... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There has to be an easier way.

 

[PaulInMi]

It makes it handy to carry unusable apples out to the deer pile/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

Paul

 

[PaulInMi]

Also to dispose of useless garden tractors/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif.

Paul

 

[MikePA]

Good one! Getting ready to body slam a Craftsman tractor. You must have some kind of weight in the back to raise it up that high!

 

[Knight9]

Uuhhh....Mike....I'm pretty sure that was a doctored photo!!

Kevin

 

[MikePA]

Um, thanks, but I kinda knew that. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Jag]

JohnMc, there was a thread I started in April'01 under tree puller. You can run the search. Also a picture was posted earlier that I buildt mine form. It will work great for what you want.. There is a company that makes those to go on the FEL but I wanted more lift.

the link was

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/33-40600-treegetter2.jpg

 

[Knight9]

Whew....had me worried there for a sec! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Kevin

 

[MikePA]

No problem...we gotta stick together. Never know when one of us might have sniffed one too many diesel fumes. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[DFB]

Harv, way cool invite dude! Trailer's all loaded n' ready to go. You can wire the gas money Western Union.
I'd really like to get outta here before the snow piles up again. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Sunny Californy here I come. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif


Probably hafta think about sellin' them new tire chains though.


BTW, NC on the matching paint.

DFB

 

[PaulInMi]

Well, I didn't own the Craftsman and the Kubota at the same time, but if I did, I would've picked it up and threw it in the dumpster just I like I pictured here, thanks to all the problems I had w/it/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif.

Paul

 

[Bill_in_MI]

Harv,
Nice compilation of photos/projects. Here is one I may have posted before. I used to hate it when I would remember on Sunday night that the trash bins needed to be hauled down to the end of the drive. Two trips hoofing it if both were full. That all ended when I "discovered" that I could use my FEL with toothbar and 4-in-1 to make it happen without even leaving the seat of my tractor. I don't think I could survive without my fel.