Pulling down a huge stump with mini tractor... Video*
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Huge stump? Looked like not much left too it and only half of it made it to the pile. Don’t mean to be a flip but my case 224 garden tractor coulda pulled that 
Haha yeah I know... I am going to doing a comparison video between by b6000 and a 4-wheeler but a saw an opportunity haha.
I live in a swampy area so I want to see how good they are. My friends argue that I should get a 4-wheeler for the farm to help with gardens and food plots... I don't think anything beats a mini tractor!
I live in a swampy area so I want to see how good they are. My friends argue that I should get a 4-wheeler for the farm to help with gardens and food plots... I don't think anything beats a mini tractor!
Your tractor is better off for your use then the quad. Last stump I pulled took the truck and tractor.
Dug up
Tractor pushing up to get chain under stump to get the right pull,back hoe dug into ground to keep tractor from falling into the hole
Little more weight and hp to get it out the ground
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Dug up
Tractor pushing up to get chain under stump to get the right pull,back hoe dug into ground to keep tractor from falling into the hole
Little more weight and hp to get it out the ground
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Think I'd have put a blanket or a tarp on the chain in both pictures. Nothing worse than a broken chain coming at your truck or your back at warp speed to do a lot of damage to your truck or your back. Not that the stump would have broken a chain. You probably could have pushed it over by hand, was totally rotted.
I quit fooling with stumps a while ago. I call the local tree guy and he comes with his stump machine and grinds them below grade and I cover them up. Charges me 50 cents an inch of diameter.
Looks like a chain on the rotten stump to me. A strap on the big stump. Even a strap can be a zinger if it breaks in the middle.
I've broken a lot of chains pulling downed trees, stuck trucks and stuck dozers. and never had one snap or recoil. Actually once a link fails and opens up, the load on the chain is released and the chain just falls to the ground like a wet noodle.
Broke a few cables too, tow cables and hoist and drag cables on a dragline. As the cable progressively fails it unloads and the weave unwinds, but I never had one snap back more than a few feet.
Straps are a different animal because they stretch considerably when loaded and can snap back when they fail.
If the stump grinder man actually charges .50 per inch dia. he doesn't think much of him time, fuel, truck or machine!
I had a very close call with what flip is talking about. Doing something stupid and shouldn’t have been. Got my truck stuck and used the tractor to pull it out, chain on the draw bar of the tractor and other end on the tow hook on the front of the truck. Tried to pull easy on it and it didn’t budge (was pouring and needed to get truck out before it really got wet). Backed the tractor up and took a run at it to jerk it out, ripped the tow hook off the truck, my SMV sign on the tractor took the hit and shattered saving it from hitting me.
motionclone
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Kind of surprised you dont own a 2000 HP turbine powered stump annihilator custom built with Valerian Steel teeth.
dlsmith,,, we must be useing different chains. I broke one and it flew into the tailgate of my f250. Cost me 370 dollars to get it fixed. next time it happened, I just left the damage, it's still there.
I too, was always under the impression that it was impossible for a chain to store energy....as in a stretched rubber snubber, rope, or tow strap.....so when it broke or snapped it would basically go bang and fail and fall harmlessly. A google search came up with this video to illustrate what happens or could happen when a loaded chain reaches its limits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OBOlK1oEXY
This video changed forever what I had formerly believed. New respect gained for using a chain properly to tow or pull on an object.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OBOlK1oEXY
This video changed forever what I had formerly believed. New respect gained for using a chain properly to tow or pull on an object.
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As an offroader/rock crawler I have been present at the breaking of dozens (maybe hundreds) of chains, cables, straps, seat belts, ropes, industrial lifting slings, etc over the years. I have seen broken chains take out back windows, dent sheet metal, break out teeth, break fingers, and in one case go completely through a tailgate.
Having said that, I have noted that the heavier chain, (3/8" link wire or larger) seem to fly shorter & with less energy. I think it is just because they are so heavy, they just drop. One might think that the heavier chain will store more energy than the light chain, but I have not found this to be true. The lightest chains seem to be the most likely to store energy and do damage when they break. Your results may vary.
Having said that, I have noted that the heavier chain, (3/8" link wire or larger) seem to fly shorter & with less energy. I think it is just because they are so heavy, they just drop. One might think that the heavier chain will store more energy than the light chain, but I have not found this to be true. The lightest chains seem to be the most likely to store energy and do damage when they break. Your results may vary.
i was terrified just watchin, i kept thinking that old dead rotten stump is going to spring back and put him into a low altitude orbit
the chain deal, i have always tried to put something to deaden it regardless
the chain deal, i have always tried to put something to deaden it regardless
