I ran 46A D8's for Weyerhaeuser out of Klamath Falls for years and still love them. The D8 in the video seems like it's down on both engine power and hydraulic pressure. Super cool to see her working though!
I got to disagree. That's a good operator that knows his tractor. He's going easy on the final drives. If you'd ever had to pay to have a set rebuild then you'd understand why he ain't raw dogging that ol beast.
My father ran and worked a cat across the isthmus of Panama blazing the trail for the trans-isthmian highway , the first road to carry motorized vehicles. He was the first person to cross the isthmus on a motorized vehicle .👷🏻
They are a good Dozer the D8 My dad did logging,land clearing,air strips for crop dusters,and originally started with a D4,D6 and finished with a D8 Good balance for the type of work he used to do
I've been a contractor for 30 years and I have noticed everybody who tells other people how to do their job and act like they know better don't know their ass from a hole in the ground
Thanks for your smart mouth reply. I know what you don't know. I grew up on a poor farm and did most jobs by hand. That job would have taken weeks with a shovel, an ax and a mattock. I doubt if know what one is, let alone used it. Not only that, I was a US Navy SeaBee. Later, I earned my mechanical engineering degree, worked in refineries and managed many multi million dollar projects. It is better to keep ones mouth shut and thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
The TROUBLE !! IS !! CONTRACTORS !! LIKE !! YOU !! ALWAYS !! END !! UP !! BRINGING !! THE !! WRONG !! PIECES !! OF !! EQUIPMENT !! TO !! THE !! WORKSITE !!!!
I had those same engine covers on my D8H. They made maintenance a pain, and if you needed to work on top of the motor, had to take the hood off and bend over the side covers. They weighed so much that the only way they could be handled was with the truck crane. Paid $1000 for those things, they were in the scrap pile only a couple years later. If you need brush protection, your mechanic can build a light weight, easily removable grid out of re-bar for a fraction of what those junkers cost, and lower your maintenance costs, cause it’s 1 hour to R and R those panels if you’re doing anything more than changing the air filter. To add insult to injury, the LH panel has to be trimmed so the element will come out of the housing!
Where was this? As far as Redwood stumps go it wasn't that big. I grew up logging in Humboldt county CA, most of my D8 seat time was in an old cable blade from the 1940s. I could tell the cat skinner was a little inexperienced in stump removal but we all were at one time or another.
I went to High School in Hayfork in Trinity Co. in 1977 and had the pleasure of working for the Godfreys my junior and senior yr, they owned the Feed Store and he had an old grader that he taught me on plus the old Freightliner 13 speed. Those were the glory days and the beginning of my many yrs of working with heavy equipment. Thanks Dave, Becky and Danell. Your giving to the community will always be remembered
Those big old Grove stumps don't give up easy. Where I build roads I run into old growth all the time I have a stump splitter makes it easier, saves time and ware and tare .
Lots of armchair cat operators on here.. this guy did ok.. that wasn't a real old stump, still well rooted. the video was only 12 1/2 minutes, not inclusive of the time to drive to the landing, and seemed mostly uncut once he arrived and started working... not bad time on removal of that with a D8..
Yup, in that soft ground with limited access, that was decent work. A lot of know-it-all armchair clowns spouting off - 8H wasn't the most powerful even when new
@@oldstudbuck3583 right on man you tell him..lolo 40 years ya i bet in 40 years he never did anything wrong..he must of been a kiss ass to the boss...we all know those 40 years guys...there shit dont stink lolo.
One tuff nut to crack. I have been there and it had to go, it had my attention and wasn't gonna let it beat me. Talk about power and how to multiply it, that is raw power.
Those cats keep on ticking in any condition i grew up running all of them from the ole dry clutch cable 3 t D 7 s cable rigs to the 8 h s. You need a C frame instead of a straight bull blade frame and a Fleco stump block with a splitter on it to widdle that monster out ,, Were can I get a fair lead arch for my D 7 G winch
On a stump that size I always got away from it around 8 feet and started breaking off roots. That way when you got a lot of the big top ones broke it'd spin and come loose BUT that's just me. Fine old 8 there.
I agree Raymond. Don't know why he didn't push more away from the other side of the stump 1st. Would have made it way easier to push out. Gotta love those old cats tho don't you. Can't beat the sound and longevity of these great old machines. My dad has a d7 17a. Can't beat the noise that big old 4 cylinder non turbo makes.
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As someone who spent a lifetime on equipment they sure was alot of useless movement with a powerful machine like this D8. Got another question what's up with the title I seen no rescue? Rescue of what? Looked to me the operator needed rescued I have pushed stumps twice that size with a old TD 15 international building well locations for drilling rigs. It's not rocket science angle the blade up and dig down around those roots til you find the bottom of the root ball. Move to the weakest side put your blade about half way up and start pushing out and up. This will loosen it till it pops out of the hole. Until the root ball is excavated your wasting time and energy trying to push on a stump this size.
Liked, but seriously Ken, don't you see this man did it the exact same way you did. Take a good look at big chunks of roots coming out. Damned good size stump to begin with. Old girl did the job!
Na it is the wrong equipment for the job of pulling out those stumps. That dozer is making more of a mess that getting the job done. An excavator with a clamp bucket would have 4 done in time any dozer could do it. After the stumps are removed then use the dozer to level the path way.
@@samboslc did you not read of course I seen the big roots that wasn't the issue it was the wasted time and movement getting them out. The problem isn't the machine it's the operator.
@@taistingtheair1368 I agree an excavator is more efficient for stump removal but alot of outfits can't justify the cost of an excavator. So you use what you have like I said I have built well locations for years and taken out thousands of big stumps. You just have to know how to dig them out. I only ever ran into one I couldn't dig out but it was a monster hickory. If you know anything about hickory it grows a large water root straight down and this one must have been 10 feet deep. it was on lower side of a road and I would have destroyed the road digging the thing out. So I just dug out around it cut the thing off below ground and buried it right in the road. Worked perfect and its still buried their today after must be 30 years now.
One thing I have noticed Yank machines very rarely have rippers on them, in Australia its the opposite they rarely have winches, and most have rippers.
I used a Hitachi EX400 to dig out a big Cedar stump near Ketchikan, finally moved it to the edge of (new road ROW), sent it crashing down the mountain. And having lifted steel bridges with the same excavator, I could tell that the stump weighed in excess of 30,000 lbs!
I agree. Nothing beats an excavator and a D8 together for digging stumps! We had actually built this landing the year before. This was a last minute favor to the logger who is a good friend. Our excavators were 30 miles from here the only machine we had left around was this D8 and as you can see the yarder crew were sitting there waiting for us. And what you can’t tell in the video is that it was early spring. The ground is muddy and there were logs lying on the back side of the stumps. Not an everyday example of digging large redwood stumps!
Them ol gals were heavy and a full day on one and your man now the old iron was never easy the kids today have no idea I run equipment and am glad AC, radio w Bluetooth, nice seating low noise in cab Yep a week on this ol gal and your in pain Love this shit tho
@@justinbrown5085 So You ! Are Telling Me ! There's Concrete Trees ! Brick Trees ! Metal Trees !! My FAVOURITE !! ONE'S !! ARE ! THE PLASTIC !! TYPE !! OHH ! and! Rubber !! Too !!
Those trees grew for years that stump is home . Hard to get something to leave home . A live oak is a beast pushed one or seven years ago .with a D8 k good dozer .
I use a fleco stump block with a splitter fabricated on the left side ,,but pined on a C frame type cat angle blade with blade off , not straight blade, just split it down the middle and grub away, the K G blades are sort of a one angle to saw or web not grub
the only track machine l ever took a stump out with as a John Deer 450 crawling shovel , 18” oak , my first experience took about 1/2 hr, we were clearing for a gravel pit , years later when l bought my self a 580k Case l removed many ponderosa pine, 42”on stump,by digging 6ft trench around it put the backhoe bucket up against the tree bring it down pushing the tree over some , dump the bucket , so teeth go into tree then ex tend the boom . The tree pulls the stump out . Then log out the tree.easy peezy
That's ridiculous nowadays...I've popped stumps like that with a 200 class excavator in half the time and disturbed 1/3 the amount of ground...this is an example of bygone days.
Inexperienced English speaker. They are tracks, not tracts. TH-camr with more than grade 8 can easily write a complete sentence without making a spelling error.
A grizzly old timer told me one time when I told him I had 10 years experience " looks to me like you got 1 year 10 times" I learned to keep my mouth shut after that
Tough old stump, and a tough, good pulling old dozer. A good bit of work, but it got it. This scenario is silly, and very unrealistic, I know, but I was imagining The Big Muskie, which has been melted for scrap metal for several years, but was the biggest dragline ever built, sitting to the right of this video. I also picture it dropping it's 200 yard bucket to the left of this video, getting a good bite, and reeling it in, taking all the trees and stumps, in the picture, and within the width of the bucket, out of the ground, in one drag of about 30 seconds, and dumping them 600 feet away, if that would be what was called for.
Yes I have a fleco stump block with a splitter on the side mounts on a d 7 g I pushed millions of pine stumps in florida back twenty years ago my dad started stumping back in 1945
@@raymondquave1237 we built 8 foot wedge that pivots off the hitch and goes up and down with winch on aD8h. We build roads on east side of coast range a lot old growth stumps
I dug out a Cedar stump in Ketchikan that I guessed weighed over 30000lbs. Using a Hitachi EX400, took over an hour to get it to move...then when it started sliding down the gully, it took standing timber and stumps alike, with it to the bottom! I made real sure to " let go of it"!!
I seen one of these setting behind a wal-mart super center for at least 10 years , back when they were building super centers everywhere, i was a truck driver and delivered to this store every week , one time I ask the manager why were these machines just setting , he said the company said it cost more to move it than its worth , he said do you want it ? , I'll ask corporate. I thought if I had the equipment I would take it to my farm , but I didn't so I guess they just scraped it .
On my d 7 g angle dozer I don't use the blade is have a fleco stump block with a home made splitter about 6 ft long 6x8 heavy metal attached to the left side of it I pin it on the cat c frame splits an grubs stump in no time there fairly rare to find
Approach on the stump is all wrong, angle blade get alongside the stump take out the soil either side and skud out the side roots, then blade up square on and push over the top, lotsa diesel wasted, nowdays would just use excavator to pull away the soil and nudge out, This is making hard work, hard on machine and time consuming. Seems to run alright for an old gal though!/
90% of it is “Having an experienced operator in the seat!” The machine is only doing what it is being told! Tree stumps without trees around them are by far the hardest stumps to get out! They all have Bigger & Deeper roots! ‘But what do I know?’
Go around the other side dig there an always push the dirt and roots way away from the stumps make a clean work area,, your just making to many short usless passes been doing this for 40 plus years
You have no clue. Those 8s are slow and cumbersome and not particularly powerful considering their size. Worn tracks, old engine, soft ground, hillside all working against a well-enscounced, deep-rooted stump. Operator did just fine.
Waste of time to use a dozer to clear stumps. Far faster to blast them out or use an excavator to dig them out. Sure a dozer can move dirt horizontally, with enough time it can clear a stump out, but the crew waiting for the stump to be cleared is costing money doing nothing.
The machine is an old beauty, though it sounds under powered, and looking at the exhaust it looks to me like the turbo is taking a shit, way to much white smoke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More a job for a front end loader, or a large back hoe. No need for traction. Just brute hydraulics along with a nice clenching bucket. Just so much a dozer can do. Need to be able to scoop and drive it.
Good work!! I run a 68 hi-horse D7E. Good to see your old girl still earning her keep. I use mine every day.
I ran a 48A D7E for Weyerhaeuser out of Klamath Falls in the early '80's. Still my all-time favorite crawler.
Well where ! Is it !? Then !?
I still have my direct drive 7E. Darn, I got to get that thing running again.
Those 47A's were brutes! Get her runnin'!
I ran 46A D8's for Weyerhaeuser out of Klamath Falls for years and still love them. The D8 in the video seems like it's down on both engine power and hydraulic pressure. Super cool to see her working though!
I got to disagree.
That's a good operator that knows his tractor.
He's going easy on the final drives.
If you'd ever had to pay to have a set rebuild then you'd understand why he ain't raw dogging that ol beast.
My father ran and worked a cat across the isthmus of Panama blazing the trail for the trans-isthmian highway , the first road to carry motorized vehicles. He was the first person to cross the isthmus on a motorized vehicle .👷🏻
I love these old D8's. I seriously wish I had one to work with.
They are fun..mines newer..its a k
Well ! Go !! And !! Buy !! One !! Then !!
Would love a D8! I bought an old TD15B and it serves me well!
They are a good Dozer the D8
My dad did logging,land clearing,air strips for crop dusters,and originally started with a D4,D6 and finished with a D8
Good balance for the type of work he used to do
He SHOULD ! HAVE ! BOUGHT !! A !! DEE !! EIGHT !! RIGHT !! AT !! THE !! START !!!
@@davidwillard7334 the hell are you stop being mr. Know-it-all
You gotta love the sound of that engine. Amazing
I've been a contractor for 30 years and I have noticed everybody who tells other people how to do their job and act like they know better don't know their ass from a hole in the ground
Yes, but theres also plenty to learn from others..
Keyboard experts .... gotta love 'em.
Thanks for your smart mouth reply. I know what you don't know. I grew up on a poor farm and did most jobs by hand. That job would have taken weeks with a shovel, an ax and a mattock. I doubt if know what one is, let alone used it. Not only that, I was a US Navy SeaBee. Later, I earned my mechanical engineering degree, worked in refineries and managed many multi million dollar projects. It is better to keep ones mouth shut and thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
The TROUBLE !! IS !! CONTRACTORS !! LIKE !! YOU !! ALWAYS !! END !! UP !! BRINGING !! THE !! WRONG !! PIECES !! OF !! EQUIPMENT !! TO !! THE !! WORKSITE !!!!
@@davidwillard7334 you bring what you've got.
Used to run one of those Glad to see one still in use . Real machine there
Well Go ! And !! Buy !! One !! And !! Then ! You ! Can Run !! It !! To !! Your !! Hearts !! Content !!!
@@davidwillard7334 you going to buy one for him I don't think so and shut the hell up
I had those same engine covers on my D8H. They made maintenance a pain, and if you needed to work on top of the motor, had to take the hood off and bend over the side covers. They weighed so much that the only way they could be handled was with the truck crane. Paid $1000 for those things, they were in the scrap pile only a couple years later. If you need brush protection, your mechanic can build a light weight, easily removable grid out of re-bar for a fraction of what those junkers cost, and lower your maintenance costs, cause it’s 1 hour to R and R those panels if you’re doing anything more than changing the air filter. To add insult to injury, the LH panel has to be trimmed so the element will come out of the housing!
3:18 would a ripper blade be a good tool for getting the roots ripped and cut to help getting the tree stump free and pushed out of there?
That stump giving that D8 a hard time!!!
Where was this? As far as Redwood stumps go it wasn't that big. I grew up logging in Humboldt county CA, most of my D8 seat time was in an old cable blade from the 1940s. I could tell the cat skinner was a little inexperienced in stump removal but we all were at one time or another.
I went to High School in Hayfork in Trinity Co. in 1977 and had the pleasure of working for the Godfreys my junior and senior yr, they owned the Feed Store and he had an old grader that he taught me on plus the old Freightliner 13 speed. Those were the glory days and the beginning of my many yrs of working with heavy equipment. Thanks Dave, Becky and Danell. Your giving to the community will always be remembered
You guys basically have the best equipment on TH-cam
Those big old Grove stumps don't give up easy. Where I build roads I run into old growth all the time I have a stump splitter makes it easier, saves time and ware and tare .
A good excavator operator 10 minutes later and the stump is gone no fuss no muss
@@johnoverbay521 it all depends on stump , good luck on 8' white fir stump
Lots of armchair cat operators on here.. this guy did ok.. that wasn't a real old stump, still well rooted. the video was only 12 1/2 minutes, not inclusive of the time to drive to the landing, and seemed mostly uncut once he arrived and started working... not bad time on removal of that with a D8..
Yup, in that soft ground with limited access, that was decent work. A lot of know-it-all armchair clowns spouting off - 8H wasn't the most powerful even when new
I ran equipment for 40 yrs. That man dont know what he's doin.
Gotta be a know it all in every operators video. You didn’t run shit except your 10hp Sears lawn tractor.
It seems like that D 8 would be unstoppable!!
@@oldstudbuck3583 Without exception, guaranfuckingteed.
@@oldstudbuck3583 right on man you tell him..lolo 40 years ya i bet in 40 years he never did anything wrong..he must of been a kiss ass to the boss...we all know those 40 years guys...there shit dont stink lolo.
Just because you ran equipment for 40 years doesn't make you an expert as an heavy equipment operator.😂😂
Why do you get on the lower side of the root ball where you need to start.
One tuff nut to crack. I have been there and it had to go, it had my attention and wasn't gonna let it beat me. Talk about power and how to multiply it, that is raw power.
If you can ever get them to wiggle you've got it made!
UsING THE WRONG !! MACHINE !! TO DO !! A JOB !! WITH !! THAT'S !! WHY !! ITS !! A TOUGH !! NUT !! TO ! CRACK !!!
Those cats keep on ticking in any condition i grew up running all of them from the ole dry clutch cable 3 t D 7 s cable rigs to the 8 h s. You need a C frame instead of a straight bull blade frame and a Fleco stump block with a splitter on it to widdle that monster out ,, Were can I get a fair lead arch for my D 7 G winch
On a stump that size I always got away from it around 8 feet and started breaking off roots. That way when you got a lot of the big top ones broke it'd spin and come loose BUT that's just me. Fine old 8 there.
YOU ARE SO CORRECT THINK OF THE TREE DRIP LINE THAT WHERE YOU START DIGGING TO CUT THE ROOTS
@@alphonsotate2982 I like to dig them in a rain storm with a trackhoe.
I was thinking the same thing, seems like he wasted a lot of time
@@robertboyd3863 Not EVEN! Here and a place on Oregon get the most rain in the U.S. You have to learn to work IN it.
I agree Raymond. Don't know why he didn't push more away from the other side of the stump 1st. Would have made it way easier to push out. Gotta love those old cats tho don't you. Can't beat the sound and longevity of these great old machines. My dad has a d7 17a. Can't beat the noise that big old 4 cylinder non turbo makes.
He should !! Have !! Used !!! An ! EXCAVATOR !!
@@davidwillard7334 there you go on every ones comment shut the hell up 👎
Great videos 👍 would LOVE to do this kind of work just wondering why you stopped doing the vids thanks & have a great dig
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Look For ! Employment !! If you want to Run !! One !! Again !!
@@davidwillard7334 wtf are you talking about 🤔🤦
Until you’ve shoved a big green stump out on a wooded hillside, best not to question the catskinners skill or experience. Those things are tough.
I still can't believe it would take me that long
It's just !! USING !! The WRONG MACHINE !! FOR !! THE !! JOB !!
@@davidwillard7334 Get real, I think a D8 Cat is capable of removing a stump , I have taken out a lot of stumps with much smaller machines ,
@@robertboyd3863 MAYBE !! YOU !! SHOULD !! GET !! REAL !! AND !! PUSH !! THE !! STUMP !! OUT !! WITH !! YOUR !! BARE !! HANDS !!
@@davidwillard7334 Did my making fun of your stupid remark , tick you off LOL I'm impressed you learned how to use caps locks
As someone who spent a lifetime on equipment they sure was alot of useless movement with a powerful machine like this D8. Got another question what's up with the title I seen no rescue? Rescue of what? Looked to me the operator needed rescued I have pushed stumps twice that size with a old TD 15 international building well locations for drilling rigs. It's not rocket science angle the blade up and dig down around those roots til you find the bottom of the root ball. Move to the weakest side put your blade about half way up and start pushing out and up. This will loosen it till it pops out of the hole. Until the root ball is excavated your wasting time and energy trying to push on a stump this size.
Liked, but seriously Ken, don't you see this man did it the exact same way you did. Take a good look at big chunks of roots coming out. Damned good size stump to begin with. Old girl did the job!
Na it is the wrong equipment for the job of pulling out those stumps. That dozer is making more of a mess that getting the job done. An excavator with a clamp bucket would have 4 done in time any dozer could do it. After the stumps are removed then use the dozer to level the path way.
@@samboslc did you not read of course I seen the big roots that wasn't the issue it was the wasted time and movement getting them out. The problem isn't the machine it's the operator.
@@taistingtheair1368 I agree an excavator is more efficient for stump removal but alot of outfits can't justify the cost of an excavator. So you use what you have like I said I have built well locations for years and taken out thousands of big stumps. You just have to know how to dig them out. I only ever ran into one I couldn't dig out but it was a monster hickory. If you know anything about hickory it grows a large water root straight down and this one must have been 10 feet deep. it was on lower side of a road and I would have destroyed the road digging the thing out. So I just dug out around it cut the thing off below ground and buried it right in the road. Worked perfect and its still buried their today after must be 30 years now.
@@taistingtheair1368 they didn't have a excavator in the area, a few extra minutes using the doser they had or hours to haul something else in
What was that piece of equipment @7:40
One thing I have noticed Yank machines very rarely have rippers on them, in Australia its the opposite they rarely have winches, and most have rippers.
Yeah that's so true aye we use rippers so much here even when scrub pulling
Only in Oregon and Washington does it seam with the winches most everywhere else seems rippers
@@darinhassett4708 well it's because back in the good old days them dozers were made there was a lot dozer skidding
YOU WANT !! BOTH !!
Who really gives a rat's ass about Australia, and what they do there???
I miss being on a D9H dozer....shucks I miss this kind of work, period!
Lot of people commenting here don't realize how big and heavy those huge redwood stumps are!!
ITS !! THE WAY ! THE !! STUPID !! OPERATOR !! TRYS !! TO GET !! THEM !! OUT !!
@@davidwillard7334 why do you type like that....
@@Northern_Farmer Because he's a know-it-all keyboard expert...and has to SHOUT
@@Northern_Farmerbecause he's Mr. Know-it-all. He should just shut the hell up
I helped my dad rebuild, and replaced a broken torge converter, and converter housing on that model 25 years ago
Old growth redwood stumps don't give up easily. Who's 45 is that?
The Man of mans man Utility Tools! The D-8! Ignored for weeks in the rhubarb and where did we park it look on the Foreskin....Yea.. been there.
I used a Hitachi EX400 to dig out a big Cedar stump near Ketchikan, finally moved it to the edge of (new road ROW), sent it crashing down the mountain. And having lifted steel bridges with the same excavator, I could tell that the stump weighed in excess of 30,000 lbs!
WOW"!!
I pulled a hollow maple stump for the maple buyer that was eight feet across but hollow. All I could do to move it. Sold it for $3grand though.
Persistence always wins over resistance!!
Wrong tool for the job. An excavator could have removed the stump in minutes and without having to dig a big hole.
I agree. Nothing beats an excavator and a D8 together for digging stumps! We had actually built this landing the year before. This was a last minute favor to the logger who is a good friend. Our excavators were 30 miles from here the only machine we had left around was this D8 and as you can see the yarder crew were sitting there waiting for us. And what you can’t tell in the video is that it was early spring. The ground is muddy and there were logs lying on the back side of the stumps. Not an everyday example of digging large redwood stumps!
And it wasnt very far away either.
That D8 got hand full
Them ol gals were heavy and a full day on one and your man now the old iron was never easy the kids today have no idea I run equipment and am glad AC, radio w Bluetooth, nice seating low noise in cab Yep a week on this ol gal and your in pain Love this shit tho
Would like to know who the operator is.
Let me guess, that dozer just sat for 18 years too. Amazing equipment back in the day!
That looked alot like Casey's yarder??
Brings in the heavy artillery
Every stump is different good job
Since WHEN !! ARE !! TREE STUMPS !! MADE OF !! SOMETHING ELSE !! OTHER !! THAN !! WOOD !!???
Well it’s blatantly obvious that David Willard has never dug any stumps before
Sweetgum and pecan are the most hateful
@@justinbrown5085 So You ! Are Telling Me ! There's Concrete Trees ! Brick Trees ! Metal Trees !! My FAVOURITE !! ONE'S !! ARE ! THE PLASTIC !! TYPE !! OHH ! and! Rubber !! Too !!
@@davidwillard7334 and I'm telling you you don't know how to spell
Nice work and very good operating skills without damaging the machine as some would have banged on it from top to bottom
I think this operator hasn't pulled many stumps.
I love the old D-8. I had two awesome dozers. The new ones are not as good as this one .
Boggs if you can't tell that man is a good operator. Then you never been around dozer work.
@@bushwacker3292 He had me fooled also .
Certainly had that D8 stumped.
Those trees grew for years that stump is home . Hard to get something to leave home . A live oak is a beast pushed one or seven years ago .with a D8 k good dozer .
slow and steady - gets her done !!!!
He's slow alright
@@robertboyd3863 and didn't the job get done😂😂😂
Ol girl seems a little tuckered but still putting in some work
I use a fleco stump block with a splitter fabricated on the left side ,,but pined on a C frame type cat angle blade with blade off , not straight blade, just split it down the middle and grub away, the K G blades are sort of a one angle to saw or web not grub
the only track machine l ever took a stump out with as a John Deer 450 crawling shovel , 18” oak , my first experience took about 1/2 hr, we were clearing for a gravel pit , years later when l bought my self a 580k Case l removed many ponderosa pine, 42”on stump,by digging 6ft trench around it put the backhoe bucket up against the tree bring it down pushing the tree over some , dump the bucket , so teeth go into tree then ex tend the boom . The tree pulls the stump out . Then log out the tree.easy peezy
Because !! You had !! The Common ! Sense !! Of DIGGING ! The Six !! Foot !! Trench !! Around !! It !! That simply made ! The Rest !! Easy !! As !
That guy on the 8 is no operator. I call them drivers
Good job 👍👍
That's ridiculous nowadays...I've popped stumps like that with a 200 class excavator in half the time and disturbed 1/3 the amount of ground...this is an example of bygone days.
Sly & Shifty I would agree! This is not an every day example of digging a redwood stump with a cat!
Ripper for trees and stumps
Inexperienced operator digging holes with the tracts . this dozer with the right operator can easily remove that stump
What a load of nonsense.
Jeez I don't think you know the stubbornness of stumps.
Inexperienced English speaker. They are tracks, not tracts. TH-camr with more than grade 8 can easily write a complete sentence without making a spelling error.
That is one tough stump.
A grizzly old timer told me one time when I told him I had 10 years experience " looks to me like you got 1 year 10 times" I learned to keep my mouth shut after that
One told me he could teach a monkey to run a bulldozer. But I still got to help him get his sunk trackhoe out. With an 8!
Arm chair comment down here..Every boddy does better then this guy....lolo.....Hey buddy in the video your doing a good job.
What. Cat. Motor. Is. In. D6
The older Cat's was a 3306, the new Cat's is a C9.3
Tough old stump, and a tough, good pulling old dozer. A good bit of work, but it got it. This scenario is silly, and very unrealistic, I know, but I was imagining The Big Muskie, which has been melted for scrap metal for several years, but was the biggest dragline ever built, sitting to the right of this video. I also picture it dropping it's 200 yard bucket to the left of this video, getting a good bite, and reeling it in, taking all the trees and stumps, in the picture, and within the width of the bucket, out of the ground, in one drag of about 30 seconds, and dumping them 600 feet away, if that would be what was called for.
If you tried it with and empty bucket it wouldn't do shit, if you tried it with a loaded bucket, you might do something then!!
Looks like you need the Kamatsu warrior to come to the rescue
Great old machine!!!
ABSOLUTELY !! HOPELESS !! ON !! TREE !! STUMPS !!!
Needs a stump splitter! They can b tough ,I had stumps where I was pushing with D8 and 330 was pulling, ended splitting before it go
Yes I have a fleco stump block with a splitter on the side mounts on a d 7 g I pushed millions of pine stumps in florida back twenty years ago my dad started stumping back in 1945
@@raymondquave1237 we built 8 foot wedge that pivots off the hitch and goes up and down with winch on aD8h. We build roads on east side of coast range a lot old growth stumps
Robert Stroh You read my mind. Divide & conquer, I always say.
I dug out a Cedar stump in Ketchikan that I guessed weighed over 30000lbs. Using a Hitachi EX400, took over an hour to get it to move...then when it started sliding down the gully, it took standing timber and stumps alike, with it to the bottom! I made real sure to " let go of it"!!
It Might !! HAVE !! Been !! QUICKER !! If ! You !! Had !! Of !! DUG !! IT !! OUT !! WITH !! A !! TEASPOON !!!
@@davidwillard7334 you can tell how old you are when you see that you told about it twice💣🤔🤔🤗
@@davidwillard7334 tis true🤔 but even if I am tending toward elderly, I still got all the facts straight.....twice!👍
@@wrz5468 WELL !! YOU !! WON'T !! GET !! IT !! TO !! LIVE !! IT !! EITHER !!!
@@wrz5468 AND !! AFTER !! ALL !! YOU !! ARE !! WASTED !! FUEL !!!
I seen one of these setting behind a wal-mart super center for at least 10 years , back when they were building super centers everywhere, i was a truck driver and delivered to this store every week , one time I ask the manager why were these machines just setting , he said the company said it cost more to move it than its worth , he said do you want it ? , I'll ask corporate. I thought if I had the equipment I would take it to my farm , but I didn't so I guess they just scraped it .
On my d 7 g angle dozer I don't use the blade is have a fleco stump block with a home made splitter about 6 ft long 6x8 heavy metal attached to the left side of it I pin it on the cat c frame splits an grubs stump in no time there fairly rare to find
Approach on the stump is all wrong, angle blade get alongside the stump take out the soil either side and skud out the side roots, then blade up square on and push over the top, lotsa diesel wasted, nowdays would just use excavator to pull away the soil and nudge out,
This is making hard work, hard on machine and time consuming.
Seems to run alright for an old gal though!/
That guy running the 8 isn't doing himself any favors either!!!
90% of it is “Having an experienced operator in the seat!” The machine is only doing what it is being told! Tree stumps without trees around them are by far the hardest stumps to get out! They all have Bigger & Deeper roots! ‘But what do I know?’
No he's not
Needed: Rome K/G blade!
If that's an Excavator up the hill he should take care of that stump. I'd fire the Operator for wasting hours on that thing. Time is money.
Not to mention added fuel waste.
Easier way? Dynomitet.
Go around the other side dig there an always push the dirt and roots way away from the stumps make a clean work area,, your just making to many short usless passes been doing this for 40 plus years
A D 10 would do it in one pass!
The best dozers in there day. Dinosaurs today.
rippers are fuckin handy at times
this guy should not be on a dozer
You have no clue. Those 8s are slow and cumbersome and not particularly powerful considering their size. Worn tracks, old engine, soft ground, hillside all working against a well-enscounced, deep-rooted stump. Operator did just fine.
Waste of time to use a dozer to clear stumps. Far faster to blast them out or use an excavator to dig them out.
Sure a dozer can move dirt horizontally, with enough time it can clear a stump out, but the crew waiting for the stump to be cleared is costing money doing nothing.
The machine is an old beauty, though it sounds under powered, and looking at the exhaust it looks to me like the turbo is taking a shit, way to much white smoke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the turbo was “taking a shit” it would be black smoke white smoke is leaking injector o-rings but yeah that things a dog
Would have made a good hauler back anchor ... :-)
well not all stumps come outeasy i could have gotter done with my d4d buta lot longer also stumps are twice as hard to up root without tree on top
thats why we work with a 155& 45ton digger a hell off easer haft the time;
The 8h was the best until the r model came about I hated the k
D7 D8 both workhorses
tough stump
Wasn't much to see.
to remove stump.....you must be smarter than stump.
I couldn’t finish watching this. Too long and painful to see.
Old school not a digger or Lazer in sight or music
It took that tree about 200 years to grow there and 10 minutes to push it out of the ground.
nice
Esse é bruto
90% of this work should have been done with an excavator first
More a job for a front end loader, or a large back hoe. No need for traction. Just brute hydraulics along with a nice clenching bucket. Just so much a dozer can do. Need to be able to scoop and drive it.
10:38
A bout time.
Looks like some landing rehab. Is in your future.
A KG Blade or a more experienced operator would have done it a lot quicker. Too much deceleration.
Go to the back side an push it over
That had to be the worst piece of machine operation I have ever seen. I could push more dirt with my Tonka Toy.
Poor operator,at stumping no idea.
25 kg Pe make into match sticks ex Sapper
Guy can't operate