Lil Foot
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It wasn't a stump
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He had everything that he needed. I live in New England where the rocks can range from small baseball size to bigger than a car. I have had a few heave up the blacktop and the blacktop has to be cut out in as large as a 4 x 4 foot square to dig them out. When that happens the cost of removal can run into a couple thousand dollars for the equipment, manpower, and materials required to make the repair. Over the years, we have had to have at least 4 of them removed because the crown has grown so high that it presents a plowing issue. Presently we have one that is starting to develop. It starts in the winter when the cold heaves the rocks upward. The only cure is to keep removing them when they become a problem.
Lil Foot
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We have a county dump about 30mi from the cabin, and they have one day a month where the first 1000lbs is $1.00.
I save all my crap like that concrete chunk for my once a year trip to the dump on dollar day.
I save all my crap like that concrete chunk for my once a year trip to the dump on dollar day.
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Maybe I’m wrong but seems like he would have had a better chance of breaking it loose and less chance of damaging the tractor if he’d used the 3 point with something really short such as one of those simple drawbars that spans the lift arms. Push, pull, lift with the 3 point to break it loose, then turn around and finish pulling it out with the loader if more stroke needed, as was the case here. Even if he didn’t have something like that for the 3 point, those horizontal drawbars cost about the same as dinner at Applebees, just pick one up.
All that pulling with the bucket and loader twisting around was almost painful to watch. That bucket hook is swell for lifting, but it’s not a great drawbar. Could be I’m wrong due to bias caused by a lot more hours with a 3 point than with a loader but that was still painful.
All that pulling with the bucket and loader twisting around was almost painful to watch. That bucket hook is swell for lifting, but it’s not a great drawbar. Could be I’m wrong due to bias caused by a lot more hours with a 3 point than with a loader but that was still painful.
Some people are SO anal. Why bother with it? It's not in the way or affecting anything. Just wanting to play with his tractor?
Meh, the guy was determined.
I've actually had the experience, the dentist got on the chair to look down, see and extract a tooth. I was 14. From that day forward, I hate going to a dentist.
Lil Foot
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If the guy who put that pole in the ground used that much concrete for a clothesline pole, how much would he have used for something serious like a foundation pier?
Needs a demo hammer and to take about 4-6” inches off the top. But, I have been that guy that “needed” to fix it…
Looked like a guy getting it done to me. Work with what ya got. Looks like he has access to gravel. Maybe a little hard on his FEL and bucket but your allowed to be if it’s yours. You could see the bucket top flexin in the video I think. Cutting a bit off the top would be a pain and a temporary fix of it’s the frost or mother nature pushing it up over time it’s gonna happen again. Only thing I saw wrong was the colour of his tractor. Definitely lots could be done differently but that’s usually the case for the average person getting it done.
I too agree that he used what he had to get done what he wanted!
My comment just referred to how some youtube people spend so much time showing nothing rather than something...
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I would have just left it also. Like NE above there are major glacial deposit boulders here in Mid-Eastern PA also - I jokingly label them "softballs to suburbans".
Never had any come up through the drive in 14y but definitely the yard. Major reason why BH77 is great in my slice of the world
Rocks? Stumps? Children's toys...
More than a century after the end of the Great War, here in Flanders Fields -like all along the Western Front- we still have thousands upon thousands of tons of all kinds and calibers of unexploded ordnance in the ground: high explosive, phosgene, penetrating, mustard gas, white phosphorus, shrapnel,... Consecutive frost-and-thaw cycles make it slowly rise to the surface; depending on the location, farmers who plow more than 14-15 inches deep can take serious risks; any construction work that involves digging can bring up some nasty surprises, and there's not a year that goes by without at least one serious accident.
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More than a century after the end of the Great War, here in Flanders Fields -like all along the Western Front- we still have thousands upon thousands of tons of all kinds and calibers of unexploded ordnance in the ground: high explosive, phosgene, penetrating, mustard gas, white phosphorus, shrapnel,... Consecutive frost-and-thaw cycles make it slowly rise to the surface; depending on the location, farmers who plow more than 14-15 inches deep can take serious risks; any construction work that involves digging can bring up some nasty surprises, and there's not a year that goes by without at least one serious accident.
‘Iron harvest:’ A Belgian team unearths unexploded ammunition from WWI - The World from PRX
Shells, bombs and hand grenades are still found across Belgium on a daily basis. Every year, a special unit removes over 150 metric tons of unexploded ordnance.
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