Thread: Pulling out Tree stumps with a 4WD OKA

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
Yep, the bucket is not very efficient. He is making some sort of tooth or spike to go in place of the bucket.
The idea is that he bought 2 blocks of about 14 acres and will clear a space and build/landscape on the best one, then contract clear for others in the area, and there lots of those.
His second block, and it's clearing, is a potential retirement fund.
It is not what I would want to do at that stage in life.
Cheers

I would have thought the easiest and cheapest option would be to float a huge 'dozer in ... have it rip all the stumps out ................ Then use your little tractor over the next few years to drag all the stumps to a spot to burn ............ then level the paddocks with the tractor ......... Maybe by ripping them, then dragging a smudge bar over them.

This is what the pine plantation up the road from my house has done. A dozer spent quite a bit of time in there. It ripped all of the stumps ... but then they just planted the next crop without removing any of the stumps.

seeya,
Shane L.

Some time ago around 2000 0r 2001 we had a mature size Pacific pine taken down. They got mill logs from the branches. They brought in a tracked stump grinder and got rid of the stump.Reminded me of a old ransom tractor. Dad used to use explosives for the bigger stumps when he could. When he could find a anchor point greater than the stump he would use the blitz he had . With four pulley blocks set up it could pull over a hundred tonnes. Did on one occasion find a tree that was not up to the task of being a anchor and had to straighten the cab out. As posted don`t go small on the stump grinder. There are people that is all they do.
Cheers Hall

Also the shreddings are good mulch and the combination of shreddings and dirt is a good beginning for garden soil. Sand and a top dress is less likely to subside.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

The Red Roo one as in the vid is $240 per weekend special , pick up Sat and return Monday morning.

I rang the hire company to book it , the rate was $240 for a day, but weekends they are not open on Sunday so you get to keep it for Sunday also, but Monday is a holiday so don't have to return it until Tues morning now, so got 3 days hire for $240. I have a few stumps to do in the back yard. When I rang them they said "your the land rover parts guy, it's booked see you Saturday morning.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I would have thought the easiest and cheapest option would be to float a huge 'dozer in ... have it rip all the stumps out ................ Then use your little tractor over the next few years to drag all the stumps to a spot to burn ............ then level the paddocks with the tractor ......... Maybe by ripping them, then dragging a smudge bar over them.

This is what the pine plantation up the road from my house has done. A dozer spent quite a bit of time in there. It ripped all of the stumps ... but then they just planted the next crop without removing any of the stumps.

seeya,
Shane L.

This is how I would do it. A 20 tonne dozer is not expensive to float around and will make short work of stumps. First give them a shove with a corner cutting edge and if not moving rip around them then give them a push with the centre of the blade dug in a foot or or so.

Originally Posted by Saitch

Know a powder monkey? My dad used gelignite pretty effectively on the bigger stumps around his property.

Be better with anfo I think. The house could be too close as well.
400m stand off?

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