Stump bucket built for my b2601

Vigo

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Equipment
B6100, B8200
Jan 9, 2022
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San Antonio Texas
I'm just going to share my stump bucket technique which i've apparently written out way too many times so im copy pasting here:

Even with the right one, it is all about technique. The shortest thing i can say is you are likely not going to pry ANYTHING directly out of the ground in one shot unless it is tiny. You will have to dig around cutting/breaking roots around the perimeter before going for the main stump. The approach i use to get it in the ground is point it down at a steep angle, like 60-90 degrees down, push down until the front of the tractor comes up, hit the brakes and try curling the bucket up to see if it will scratch and start to dig forward a bit. May have to let off the brakes and let the bucket curl the push the tractor backwards a bit. As the bucket gets closer to 30-45 degrees down, put the front tires back on the ground, if you got 4wd pull up on the loader just a little to load the front tires for traction, and then drive forward. As the bucket digs in and tries to go lower and lower you'll have to lower the loader arms with it to keep it from just wedging your front tires down harder and preventing it from digging any deeper. Don't try to bury the whole bucket (but good luck if you try, lol), no more than around halfway in is probably best for the initial groundbreaking. Then curl to see if you can pry it up. If you can't, push your loader down until the front wheels come up again, and continue trying to curl. That puts your max weight down on the back of the bucket, and the ground under the middle of the bucket becomes a fulcrum and you are using the bucket for 'leverage' in addition to just hydraulic curl force. If that doesn't work you can try slowly pulling backward and see if the bucket edges will 'saw' whatever you're stuck under. If none of that works you'll just have to try less depth.