How would you remove this stump? - Page 7

Scott Douglas · Scott Douglas's Garage

Cool.

That stump grinder was kind of small compared to the monster they brought in to grind our palm tree stump down a long time ago. They dropped the tree in sections between our house and the neighbors house. About a 15' wide space. It was a good excuse to get the neighbors to move the junker Luv truck out from beside their house.

Baz · Baz's Garage

Looks GREAT, Shaun! Please continue to keep us posted with progress.....

daepp · 11-11-2020, 12:23 PM

Looks great! Just a suggestion - you might want to consider saw-cutting about half through the thickness of the slab. At a minimum from each corner of the center pit to the perimeter, with no panel greater than 8-10' without a saw cut.

Shaun @ Tru6 · 11-11-2020, 01:45 PM

^^^ thanks David, they just came and did that.

He said they used 10 yards of concrete or 28,000 lbs btw.

sc_rufctr · 06-28-2021, 04:49 AM

Not the same thing but I liked this method for pulling concrete posts.

flatbutt · 06-28-2021, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Not the same thing but I liked this method for pulling concrete posts.

wouldn't an engine hoist do that?

masraum · 06-28-2021, 05:31 AM

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Glad you got it done.

And might I add that's the biggest stump grinder I've ever seen. All I've ever seen here are walk-behind models.

That's the same thing that I've seen.

sc_rufctr · 06-28-2021, 05:37 AM

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wouldn't an engine hoist do that?

If you already have a hoist then yes but this thing is purpose built and it would take up less room than a hoist.

Anyways... I like making my own tools.

masraum · 06-28-2021, 05:52 AM

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I've seen that a few other times in recent years. Genius since it transfers a bunch of the pulling force to a vertical direction. Still, it would be a little scary having a bunch of force on that line and standing near it, and having the possibility of that line coming loose and hitting my nice looking bronco.

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Best $300 ever spent. If I had known how big his grinder was I wouldn't have cut it down. Too much work for a little 16" saw and the locust wood eats chains.

It took literally 20 minutes to get it off the trailer and then demolish, annihilate, obliterate the stump and 5 minutes to get it back on. Machine was remove controlled.

That's a Crocodile Dundee moment right there. "That's not a stump grinder. THIS is a stump grinder."