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NW Ohio,near Findlay | Make sure your life insurance is paid up or buy some more term insurance before you and your tractor loader,mini hoe start this project. I have worked on fence line trees for a long time and that 1 to 2 foot tree usually has a root ball twice the size of a lone tree in a yard or field. That tree probably has been cut off, trimmed and roots are huge. After digging out stump and when you try to push tree over, usually three things will happen, one, the tree falls over and you are good. Second, tree trunk will split and some of it falls back on your tractor, maybe you are lucky and if you have a cab, you are OK, windshields, exhaust pipes, mirrors, plastic cab roofs can be replaced. But if you are using the hoe to push over the tree and the trunk splits and rifles back to you in the cab, you will have no time to stop it. Tree trunks can be hollow and you don't see that, trunk will twist and go any way it wants to go. Forgot to mention, don't forget the bees in hollow trees, be ready to run fast. The weight of the tree is more than the backhoe, and it will push you sideways or upset hoe fast.
Now a track hoe with the reach and windshield protection is the way to go. Dozers built for trees are great and even with them, a dead tree is very dangerous. Just be careful when pushing trees with too small of equipment for the job, hire it done or cut tree and then play with stump digging around it. | |
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digging out trees with loader backhoe
