Thread: Pulling out Tree stumps with a 4WD OKA

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

I had a 10 mt tree cut down the other day it has a 10 metre root spread. I am left with the stump to grind away. In conversation with an owner of an OKA he reckons if they had of left some trunk he could have tied a rope around it and dragged out the stump. I immediately called Frogcrap. I had my brother inlaw over who used to operate a Drott and he agrees the root ball would be massive and you would have to excavate around it and cut the roots to budge it. If an OKA could pull it out of the ground then the said OKA would never be able to self recover itself out bush as it would pull out every tree it was attached to when winching.
Pic of remaining stump. My walking stick is 1.2 metres long for scale.
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As the saying goes id like to see that

I have heard that the "iceberg" rule of thumb when dealing with trees is, that the amount of branches above ground, equates to the same volume of roots below ground, obviously a lot are small fibrous types, that would break easily, but I'd still like to see an OKA try.

No chance at all an OKA would go close to getting that out.

We pulled heaps of trees down and got rid of the stumps,when i was a kid.

Stump grinding is the go,unless you want to spend hours with a costly machine.

Must be a bloody good OKA .A day digging with chain trencher and bucket ,the skid steer the crane and the Defenders rear 11000 lb hyd winch and 2 blocks needed to uproot this sapling

The OKA wouldn't stand a chance, even a Land Rover would struggle.

Hi,
A friend has just bought what was part of a eucalyptus plantation after harvesting.
The backhoe bucket takes quite a while to dig, cut and persuade each stump to come out.
There is several hundred of them!
Cheers

I have seen 2 x D9 cats struggle with one water mallee stump OKAs must be better than I thought

Pulled bigger stumps than that with a hand winch! One of the best was made by Trewhalla Foundry - I still have a wallaby jack, by memory it's one of theirs, too.