Tractor Pushing Over Trees Rootballs and All

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  • Tree removal with a tractor. A grove of jack pines suffering from winter kill created the opportunity to thin out the dead trees and knock them over.
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  • @DanielWStyles
    @DanielWStyles 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like it. I aways get new ideas form videos like this. Personally I like your tractor videos the best. Thanks

    • @MinnesotaEric
      @MinnesotaEric  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well for that thought you get a thumbs up and the love it buttons! Thanks.

  • @newhampshire-bob1604
    @newhampshire-bob1604 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A fast and easy way to get dead trees down, and safer! You don't have any dead branches trying to fall on you while chain sawing down at the base!

  • @dighsx
    @dighsx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Those jack pines don't seem to live all that long. Like maybe 15-20 years they look good and then they just start turning to crap. They're big over by me cuz of the kirtland warbler bird.

    • @MinnesotaEric
      @MinnesotaEric  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      In the right conditions jack pines can grow 60-80 feet long and live 80 years or so. I have a few trees that fit that description along my shoreline near where I videoed this. But you're right: jack pines tend to be a short-lived, weak tree and sadly, I've lost most of my big, mature jack pines due to wind storms.

  • @macgabhann1108
    @macgabhann1108 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    iv'e removed several Alder and fir trees like that with my tractor though all i have is the front end loader and backhoe though i once had to remove a clump of 7 trees that where all root bound together with the root system being larger around then my tractor, took me about a week but i got it out of there and had to use the loader to roll the root system off a cliff once i got it dug free just to get ride of it. but its gone now and with luck ill be getting some help to install a building to house my tractor right where that group of trees was. anyways you got a new sub with only 201.3 hrs on my kioti ck 3510 tractor I figure ill probably be able to learn a few things from some of these videos.

  • @traviswilliams9104
    @traviswilliams9104 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everything looked good to me. Only thing kinda bothered me was that fist tree when you was popping the root ball out looked like you had it pretty far to the left on the grapple. It started tweeking it to the left when u started lifting. When I popped tree roots out I'd get it dead center of my loader. But nice video.

  • @802louis
    @802louis 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    good job done !!!!

  • @FromSteelToWood
    @FromSteelToWood 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very nice grapple in action! Are those jack pines worth anything? Thanks!

    • @MinnesotaEric
      @MinnesotaEric  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Although I give away any yellow wood to those who ask for it, jack pines are not worth anything to me. I do have two dead standing mature oaks that are worth something, but my local mill has major hassles sawing anything longer than 20'.

  • @yellowmetaldriver1460
    @yellowmetaldriver1460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How many hours on yours and any issues/unexpected maint? considering an open station nx4510HST w 6010 loader. Great vids

    • @MinnesotaEric
      @MinnesotaEric  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Currently I have something like 750 hours. The importer of Kioti voided my warranty after watching my first or second TH-cam video sight unseen apparently unaware of editing tricks to speed up the footage. Consider the Bobcat equivalent for better support as I'd never purchase a Kioti again. That said, whatever tractor you purchase, get Rimguard filled in all four tires for better traction.

  • @houndsmanone4563
    @houndsmanone4563 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice approach, Eric. What HP is your tractor? Nice maneuvering with the tractor.

  • @MrBubinski777
    @MrBubinski777 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    When you tweak your loader just pushed on the opposite side that will straighten her back out.

    • @MinnesotaEric
      @MinnesotaEric  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for watching, Stan. There is no tweaking of the loader carefully pushing dead jack pines down that grew in sphagnum and rotted their rootballs.

  • @802louis
    @802louis 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wish I had a grapple on my kioti nx 4510 but they cost so much

    • @MinnesotaEric
      @MinnesotaEric  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My grapple was made by Everything Attachments (EA) and was reasonably priced. Since that time, EA acting on suggestions from the field has made the same grapple open a little wider, and they have built in a brush guard on the backside so that rough material cannot accidentally trip the skidsteer quick release. Ted from EA talks about the new version 2.0 grapple and gives me a shoutout at 5:40. th-cam.com/video/i---hbR7-nU/w-d-xo.html&frags=pl%2Cwn Here is a link to the grapple I have on EA's website. www.everythingattachments.com/Wicked-Root-Grapple-by-Everything-Attachments-p/eta-wrg-cmp.htm

  • @MinnesotaEric
    @MinnesotaEric  6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anybody know a good set-up for a remote microphone? I'm tired of wind noise in my videos.

    • @dighsx
      @dighsx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've got a SONY ICD PX333 Digital Voice Recorder (from amazon) and run a mic with a wind shield to my hat brim. Then when I edit the video I sync up the audio and the video. It's a bit of a pain but the remote mic's that are worth getting aren't cheap.

    • @MinnesotaEric
      @MinnesotaEric  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nearly every video I make is outside and I've had more wrecked footage from wind noise. As in nobody never got to see me install my own heat pump during the summer of 2016, explain what tools are needed and the entire best practices process of pressure testing with nitrogen and evacuating the system three times because of wind noise. At some point I should do a voice-over on all the footage.