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What happens when a young man has his own backhoe, firetruck and his father's chainsaw...and a 9 foot high sweetgum stump?
Madness....
I took down this gum several months ago...we left it high so we could do exactly what we did today.
I had dug out some of the large roots on the backside of the tree a few months ago and today Alex (my son), used his backhoe to improve on what I had done by hand. When I got home from work today, he had an approx. three foot deep trench around the backside (non-driveway side) of the stump and tried to pull it toward the driveway...nope, didn't budge it, though he did smoke the tires on the firetruck. (He and a buddy had hooked 2 strong pickups to it a few weeks ago and tried to pull it over...naaahhhh.)
So, he dug out the front side, strapped his firetruck to it and snatched it pretty good. The video shows the result.
He tried to then pull it straight out of the hole but that didn't work at all.
I took an old short bull rope, 3 strand, redirected it to a gum to the side and he rolled the stump up and out of the hole...I flubbed that video...thought I was taping but in my distracted state (Hayden was more interested in stomping in mud puddles with his rubber boots than watching the stump roll up out of the hole) I didn't hit the REC button properly.
But, it did roll out..though the tenex on my redirect really bit deep into the tree. I have heard of bark slipping but never seen it...I guess I have now.
It's not real dramatic video but it shows the process.
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Madness....
I took down this gum several months ago...we left it high so we could do exactly what we did today.
I had dug out some of the large roots on the backside of the tree a few months ago and today Alex (my son), used his backhoe to improve on what I had done by hand. When I got home from work today, he had an approx. three foot deep trench around the backside (non-driveway side) of the stump and tried to pull it toward the driveway...nope, didn't budge it, though he did smoke the tires on the firetruck. (He and a buddy had hooked 2 strong pickups to it a few weeks ago and tried to pull it over...naaahhhh.)
So, he dug out the front side, strapped his firetruck to it and snatched it pretty good. The video shows the result.
He tried to then pull it straight out of the hole but that didn't work at all.
I took an old short bull rope, 3 strand, redirected it to a gum to the side and he rolled the stump up and out of the hole...I flubbed that video...thought I was taping but in my distracted state (Hayden was more interested in stomping in mud puddles with his rubber boots than watching the stump roll up out of the hole) I didn't hit the REC button properly.
But, it did roll out..though the tenex on my redirect really bit deep into the tree. I have heard of bark slipping but never seen it...I guess I have now.
It's not real dramatic video but it shows the process.
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