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This Is Stump Grinding 101

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BeeMaster2:
Ace,
That device will not touch these stumps. I once tried to rip out a 3 inch heart wood yellow pine stump, the original tree was much much bigger, by dropping my box blade on it and tried to pull it out with a 2355 58 horse John Deere. I tried pulling several times and the only thing that happened was I damaged the tractor where the 2 bottom bars hooked onto the tractor. Took a long time to get the hydraulic fluid from leaking around those points. I noticed that on the new tractors, they totally redesigned how they are connected.
Jim Altmiller

Acebird:

--- Quote from: BeeMaster2 on March 19, 2023, 11:49:08 pm ---Ace,
That device will not touch these stumps.

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Jim I no longer have the tractors or the device.  I am sure I have the same pine trees that you do here and I had to deal with them with my tiny John Deere.  Most of the trees here in FL have a rats nest root system because the top soil is so thin.  If you are using a back hoe dig a trench 4-6 ft out from the trunk and wash out the roots with a pressure washer or hose.  Use a chain saw at the trunk to cut off the horizontal roots.  once these are gone you can cut off the tap root or just 6 inches below grade.  You mentioned this land will be used for pasture not a garden so you don't have to go that deep.
The three point is designed to pull more then the capacity of the tractor.  When that happens the wheels spin.  Actually it is an advantage because it loosens the dirt on the top roots.  Yes I have buried the wheels on the tractor many times which is why you need two tractors.
There was a time when people cleared land with horse and oxen.  The difference between now and then is effort and time.

Michael Bush:
My Grandpa used to plow fields full of stumps with a team of mules and a "stump plow".  I haven't seen one, but he described it as being designed to plow right through the stumps.  It didn't pull them but it split them apart more every time you plowed through them.  He told the story about how his uncle plowed through one and it closed back up behind him and closed on his homespun britches (linsywoolsy).  He just hung onto the plow and the mules kept pulling and finally, my uncle said if his galluses hadn't broken he would have pulled that stump.  I guess the point was the strength of the linsywoolsy.

iddee:
It wasn't long ago that they weren't pulled. A cup of salt peter and brown sugar, a piece of fuse, and the stump was out of the ground.

Michael Bush:
My grandpa would have used a bit of fertilizer and some diesel.  Or gone to the hardware store and bought a stick of dynamite...

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