Aloha! Attempted to dig a hole with my BH92. Couldn’t even get the teeth into the ground, started to lift the L4701 off the ground. I’m SO envious of your dirt! 😊
Good morning Squatch! I don't have a backhoe attachment for my tractor, and my tractor is much smaller. So what I do is I use my post hole digger attachment to dig holes around the stump to loosen it up. Like you, I look for where the roots are by pushing with the bucket and expose and cut them off (ax or chainsaw, depending on size) and then I will hook a chain to the frame of the tractor and use a push-pull technique with the bucket and the chain to get the stump out. For larger stumps I sometimes will grab a root to pull with a twisting motion to pull the stump out. ..... This is way more work, but I don't have a backhoe and can't afford one. I'm just very thankful to have a tractor and not have to do it all by hand. To finish, I smooth out what I can with the bucket and then run the brush hog over the area to level everything out.
I have a BH92 on a MX 5400 and for an attachment backhoes it works great. Very well matched with the tractor. I have taken out some huge stumps that I could only skid away. I look forward to a video of rock removal as I haven’t done any. I always enjoy and learn from your videos Tony. Thanks
Hi Toby, another enjoyable video with clear instructions looking forward to your next one and hope that the building work is progressing well. By the way there is nothing wrong with having OCD as it's the way I like to be and can't cope with things that's not right and out of place. I think it's why I work on my own, as I did try to employ a couple of people once but I ended up having to redo all the work again myself. I have a reputation for the quality of work that I do and seem to be well known for it.
I love seeing work projects like this. My younger brother and I just purchased a little 30 acre farm and are doing many of the same things with just our own manpower right now, but watching this channel and being a mechanic in the modern world, I've begun to collect some old equipment to rehab and use up at the farm, starting with an old 8n tractor.
I worked for a company that did clear cut for new subdivisions, when we removed all the trees, we had to remove the stumps, the really big ones. I operated a stump grinding machine, it was a Vermeer 2465 with a diesel engine. I must have over the years ground out thousands and thousands of stumps. It was not a bad job but it could be extremely hot or cold sometimes but for the most part it was not too bad. Just had to keep the wind shield clean because if you started to peek around the edge of the shield, you could get hit in the face with something that would fly up and hit you.
are you talking about when he dug up the two stumps together and the root popped up past the second stump at about the 8 minute mark. I was amazed at that too. he definitely knows what he is doing.
I worked for a rental company for over 20 years and the biggest repairs on full size backhoe was a harry homeowner taking out stumps with it. Excavators only for big stumps
Is there any plans for an excavator, you have so many repeat types of crawlers but an excavator can do amazing feats around the farm. Especially one as large as yours?
On a related topic, Do you folks buy diesel in bulk? Whats the best way to store it? Do you store inside or outside and what quantity do you buy each time?
If you didn't have a backhoe, how would you approach the stump removal? Would you choose the Kubota HST or a big gear drive like the M, the small 8n,(oh, i forgot you have Cats for a second) or one of the old gear drive Caterpillars? In my personal experience only having wheel tractors with gear drive, a big tractor is nice and heavy for traction, but usually has more power so you can become blind to the situation; in other words, a smaller tractor well ballasted losing RPM under load and nearly stalling gives you more information than a big tractor not even flinching before a chain snaps or you do a tractor cartwheel. Most farm and landscape chores go easier if you take the time to do the boring and manual preparation work, that's where people get into troube, skipping steps and hopping on the tractor to get done faster (but then it goes slower in reality while you struggle or get injured). Thanks for sharing your content!
Good question 👍 Back when Senior and Mom first started clearing their land for the house (1974-ish) all they had was a well-worn Farmall H and they’d dig out around each stump with a shovel to expose the main roots, and between an axe and a butcher’s knife they’d hack away at the roots until Senior could roll the stump out with the H. Several years later, Senior bought his Allis-Chalmers “M” dozer and that became the main land clearing workhorse, dozing a large area out around each stump that was big enough to cut the roots and dislodge the stump. The downside was you’d then have a hole the size of most swimming pools to fill back in, but it was a lot better than the shovel and axe approach. So Senior upgraded to using a long, heavy steel cable and a ladder to tie off to the tree trunks and use that leverage to pull the entire tree over with the dozer, which also dislodged the stump. Until I got this backhoe, I’d use my D2 and that cable to pull the trees out, roots and all, and then cut the trunk off of the stump.
Thanks for asking - fortunately we’re doing really well here, no flooding at all - although things are plenty wet with all of the rain we’ve been having. The new building is a week into construction right now, with (what I estimate) about 2 good days’ work left to finish. Rain has delayed it for about two days total, but hopefully by mid next week they’ll have it done and I can upload the video on it 👍
I’m filming progress reports at the end of every day, because I told the builder and crew that I would refrain from filming them as they’re working out of respect for their privacy as well as safety, so once the building is up and they’ve finished their work I’ll be able to put that episode together. They’ve still got a few more days of work left though 👍
I have not, where is it located? I rarely ever set foot outside of the state of MN, and even then usually only travel up to 4 hours away from home max.
Not sure if anyone commented on this yet but beware of gas lines telephone lines fibre optics and hydro lines I have been on heavy equipment my whole life and we have a saying in Manitoba CALL BEFORE YOU DIG 😀🇨🇦
I just tried to look at your new shop construction. That will be a frosty day in Hell before I join your channel and give you money, IF a subscription is not enough, you know what to do.
Every new episode spends the first 24 hours running ad free on the Members Page as one of the perks of being a financial supporter, after that it gets the ads turned on and hits the public feed. Been that way for several years now 👍
Squatch, you’re like the Bob Ross of stump removal - your narration is very soothing and comforting for some reason!
Aloha! Attempted to dig a hole with my BH92. Couldn’t even get the teeth into the ground, started to lift the L4701 off the ground. I’m SO envious of your dirt! 😊
Good morning Squatch!
I don't have a backhoe attachment for my tractor, and my tractor is much smaller. So what I do is I use my post hole digger attachment to dig holes around the stump to loosen it up. Like you, I look for where the roots are by pushing with the bucket and expose and cut them off (ax or chainsaw, depending on size) and then I will hook a chain to the frame of the tractor and use a push-pull technique with the bucket and the chain to get the stump out. For larger stumps I sometimes will grab a root to pull with a twisting motion to pull the stump out.
..... This is way more work, but I don't have a backhoe and can't afford one. I'm just very thankful to have a tractor and not have to do it all by hand.
To finish, I smooth out what I can with the bucket and then run the brush hog over the area to level everything out.
1:23 yup. Thumbs are the no. 1 mod or option one should have. It's incredibly useful in just about every operation you do with a bucket type machine.
Thank you! Hope the building is going well, and that the severe storms didn’t do any damage.
Great tutorial now I need a backhoe. I like that rock looks pretty good to sit on for shorter folks.
I have a BH92 on a MX 5400 and for an attachment backhoes it works great. Very well matched with the tractor. I have taken out some huge stumps that I could only skid away. I look forward to a video of rock removal as I haven’t done any. I always enjoy and learn from your videos Tony. Thanks
Hey Toby,,actually a pretty satisfying video.
Hi Toby, another enjoyable video with clear instructions looking forward to your next one and hope that the building work is progressing well.
By the way there is nothing wrong with having OCD as it's the way I like to be and can't cope with things that's not right and out of place. I think it's why I work on my own, as I did try to employ a couple of people once but I ended up having to redo all the work again myself. I have a reputation for the quality of work that I do and seem to be well known for it.
Hey! An episode that addresses something I’m actually good at! I have a considerably larger backhoe, but the principles are the same. Well done, sir!
I love seeing work projects like this. My younger brother and I just purchased a little 30 acre farm and are doing many of the same things with just our own manpower right now, but watching this channel and being a mechanic in the modern world, I've begun to collect some old equipment to rehab and use up at the farm, starting with an old 8n tractor.
That backhoe sure would come in handy! I've got a few stumps needing extraction
I'm pretty sure that pulling stumps with the root hook and the D2 Iron Maiden was my first Squatch video. 7 great years ago. Sure hooked me.
I worked for a company that did clear cut for new subdivisions, when we removed all the trees, we had to remove the stumps, the really big ones. I operated a stump grinding machine, it was a Vermeer 2465 with a diesel engine. I must have over the years ground out thousands and thousands of stumps. It was not a bad job but it could be extremely hot or cold sometimes but for the most part it was not too bad. Just had to keep the wind shield clean because if you started to peek around the edge of the shield, you could get hit in the face with something that would fly up and hit you.
Thanks, Squatch
That Kubota is certainly a versatile machine
At 10:43 amazing to see how far right that large root grew away from the main stump!
are you talking about when he dug up the two stumps together and the root popped up past the second stump at about the 8 minute mark. I was amazed at that too. he definitely knows what he is doing.
These Poplars are known for springing up new trees out of horizontal roots, so I wasn’t too surprised to see those two trunks were connected 👍
Excellent video the Kubota backhoe works really nice for clean up projects like that
I worked for a rental company for over 20 years and the biggest repairs on full size backhoe was a harry homeowner taking out stumps with it. Excavators only for big stumps
More education for the viewers. It sure helps to have great equipment. Makes the job almost fun to do. Work smarter, not harder.
Hey mate that was a nice day for it, thanks for the video
Good morning that was quick great video if everything goes this good you will get a lot done today thanks for your time
Great video Toby! I use the same method when it come to removing stumps. Cheers
Man and machine in perfect harmony 💪👌
Excellent tutorial. I need more practice to have the kind of "touch" that you have.
Thanks for the video Toby! Can’t wait for the next one!
Is there any plans for an excavator, you have so many repeat types of crawlers but an excavator can do amazing feats around the farm. Especially one as large as yours?
Very interesting and intriguing!
Great video. Thx for sharing!!!
On a related topic, Do you folks buy diesel in bulk? Whats the best way to store it? Do you store inside or outside and what quantity do you buy each time?
We only buy it as we need it, store it in cans and usually not more than 15-20 gallons at a time 👍
A teaser at the end there 😉
If you didn't have a backhoe, how would you approach the stump removal? Would you choose the Kubota HST or a big gear drive like the M, the small 8n,(oh, i forgot you have Cats for a second) or one of the old gear drive Caterpillars? In my personal experience only having wheel tractors with gear drive, a big tractor is nice and heavy for traction, but usually has more power so you can become blind to the situation; in other words, a smaller tractor well ballasted losing RPM under load and nearly stalling gives you more information than a big tractor not even flinching before a chain snaps or you do a tractor cartwheel. Most farm and landscape chores go easier if you take the time to do the boring and manual preparation work, that's where people get into troube, skipping steps and hopping on the tractor to get done faster (but then it goes slower in reality while you struggle or get injured). Thanks for sharing your content!
Good question 👍 Back when Senior and Mom first started clearing their land for the house (1974-ish) all they had was a well-worn Farmall H and they’d dig out around each stump with a shovel to expose the main roots, and between an axe and a butcher’s knife they’d hack away at the roots until Senior could roll the stump out with the H. Several years later, Senior bought his Allis-Chalmers “M” dozer and that became the main land clearing workhorse, dozing a large area out around each stump that was big enough to cut the roots and dislodge the stump. The downside was you’d then have a hole the size of most swimming pools to fill back in, but it was a lot better than the shovel and axe approach. So Senior upgraded to using a long, heavy steel cable and a ladder to tie off to the tree trunks and use that leverage to pull the entire tree over with the dozer, which also dislodged the stump. Until I got this backhoe, I’d use my D2 and that cable to pull the trees out, roots and all, and then cut the trunk off of the stump.
Great video on how to remove a lot stumps squatch
Good informational video.
Hey Toby,
Seeing lots of flooding in the news in Minnesota. How are you doing? Are you near any of it?
Thanks for asking - fortunately we’re doing really well here, no flooding at all - although things are plenty wet with all of the rain we’ve been having. The new building is a week into construction right now, with (what I estimate) about 2 good days’ work left to finish. Rain has delayed it for about two days total, but hopefully by mid next week they’ll have it done and I can upload the video on it 👍
My 08 kubota 3030 has less than 800 hrs. You on the otherhand must have many more.
1,035 at the time of this recording 👍
I had OCD, but now I have CDO. It’s the same thing, but the words are in alphabetical order……. As they should be.
Thanks I will be chuckling about that statement for the next little while. 😉😂
I used my buddy's tractor/back hoe and dig a bit of the roots up and then just push the trees over, Then i saw the trunk off the stump.
Can you show a little bit of progress on your building? I see in the background.
I’m filming progress reports at the end of every day, because I told the builder and crew that I would refrain from filming them as they’re working out of respect for their privacy as well as safety, so once the building is up and they’ve finished their work I’ll be able to put that episode together. They’ve still got a few more days of work left though 👍
Hah - typical Squatch - it's not just about getting the stumps out, it's more about leaving things as good as possible for the subsequent processes.
Yeah like it 👍👏😎😌
Off subject, have you been to Hungry Hollow Steam and Gas Engine show? They have a Cat 12 motor grader that make me think of you.
I have not, where is it located? I rarely ever set foot outside of the state of MN, and even then usually only travel up to 4 hours away from home max.
@@squatch253 Rice Lake Wi, Looks like 2 hours down thru Danbury and Spooner. Clint ECE
Heyyyy Squatch.... Just a quick question... What is the cam you are using??
GoPro Hero10 Black
Good video
Not sure if anyone commented on this yet but beware of gas lines telephone lines fibre optics and hydro lines I have been on heavy equipment my whole life and we have a saying in Manitoba CALL BEFORE YOU DIG 😀🇨🇦
Thanks
You must have the largest carbon footprint in Minnesota
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Not OCD. It is CD0, as it should be. 😂
I just tried to look at your new shop construction. That will be a frosty day in Hell before I join your channel and give you money, IF a subscription is not enough, you know what to do.
Every new episode spends the first 24 hours running ad free on the Members Page as one of the perks of being a financial supporter, after that it gets the ads turned on and hits the public feed. Been that way for several years now 👍
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