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Stump Removal
#3037839
02/10/20 02:11 PM
02/10/20 02:11 PM
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Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,019 Central AL
Overland
OP
6 point
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6 point
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,019
Central AL
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I have a three acre plot where I removed all of the 40 year old planted pines and another 2 acre plot where I removed about 75% of the 40 year old planted pines. I am wanting to remove the stumps in the fields so I can plant them. What is the best way to do this. Track Hoe is one option and a Stumpex Stump grinder is another. Track Hoe would also involve removing the stumps to a place they can be burned. Whichever I choose, the areas will be smoothed and then have a heavy plow pulled across until there is a decently smooth seedbed.
Anybody with pros/cons of either method? Is there another option I should consider?
Last edited by Overland; 02/10/20 02:12 PM.
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Re: Stump Removal
[Re: Overland]
#3037893
02/10/20 03:47 PM
02/10/20 03:47 PM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,580 Clanton
Turkey_neck
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,580
Clanton
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You will eventually end up with holes in the field where the stumps rot in the soil. Pines have big deep tap roots.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: Stump Removal
[Re: Overland]
#3037968
02/10/20 05:03 PM
02/10/20 05:03 PM
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 21,751 USA
Remington270
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 21,751
USA
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Re: Stump Removal
[Re: Overland]
#3038065
02/10/20 06:26 PM
02/10/20 06:26 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 38,489
N. Bama
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Do not use a bucket for stumping on a trackhoe. Use a ripper. Pluck the stumps out without a huge dirtball coming up. Bury stumps in pit together. They’ll go through a heat and rot pretty fast
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Stump Removal
[Re: Overland]
#3038202
02/10/20 08:07 PM
02/10/20 08:07 PM
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Joined: Apr 2014
Posts: 652 SW Alabama
ALFisher
4 point
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4 point
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Posts: 652
SW Alabama
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If you want it done right and quickly, then, trackhoe then dozer with a rake. If you are going to bury them, that's fine, but I would NOT bury them in the field you are using for a food plot. I don't care what they say that spot is going to collapse over time and you end up with a low spot/hole in your food plot you can't ever get rid of. You have to keep adding dirt back to it. Luckily, most of the time the dozer pushes up a little dirt around the edges and you can use that if you have a tractor with a FEL, but it's a pain. Another way I've done it is - wait a year or two, get a grinder/mulcher out there and get it down ground down as far as you can. I thought that method would work great, but the problem is that you end up with a lot of uneven areas/bark/mulch which really needs to be spread out - again with a bulldozer with a rake or just a bulldozer. This method MIGHT be slightly cheaper, but it's not easy to get someone to come in and do both.
Generally, it's much easier to find a guy with a trackhoe and a bulldozer. As busy at they are right now, it might be hard to get them to come do just five acres, but maybe they will or maybe you can find some other road work for them to do with he dozer.
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Re: Stump Removal
[Re: Overland]
#3038694
02/11/20 09:02 AM
02/11/20 09:02 AM
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Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 30,910 Clanton, AL
Out back
Grumpy Old Man
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Grumpy Old Man
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 30,910
Clanton, AL
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One pound of tannerite, five pounds of ammonium nitrate.
My opinions and comments are my own. They do not reflect the position or political opinions of Aldeer or any of the Aldeer administration.
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Re: Stump Removal
[Re: Overland]
#3039034
02/11/20 04:40 PM
02/11/20 04:40 PM
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Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 4,609 Alabama
Rmart30
10 point
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10 point
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Posts: 4,609
Alabama
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This is what came and cleared most of mine January of 2019.. This video is not from my property but it went from thick standing pines to that type mulch bed in 8 hours. If you watch toward the end you see how deep it can go and mixes the dirt and chips pretty well covering up whats left of the stumps. I wouldn't be afraid to run a disk across it after this. Wouldn't touch it with a turning plow though. I went this route over a dozer or excavator both of which I have access too and can run myself because there were no piles, or stumps left behind to burn or debris to haul off. I ended up with about 8-14" of mulch bed when he was done. I thought that much organic matter staying put to make topsoil was a positive. A few weeks after it was done I drug it with a cross tie to smooth it out. Seeded it in a winter mix and drug lightly with cross tie again. A year later and the chips are decomposing very quickly. A lot quicker than what I thought it would. This same guy has a 375 hp subsoiler that as he says after the mulcher comes thru will make it row crop ready. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-W...K8HE6Du-ZpgLI1A4Q3_1TvMyYQtp_ptuTHI6UXy0Subsoiler type video. if you watch toward the end with it raised you see how deep below the surface its going compared to the packer wheel. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47d07JJmr2E
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching - even when doing the wrong thing is legal. Aldo Leopold .. (except when it comes to trailer tags)
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Re: Stump Removal
[Re: Overland]
#3039740
02/12/20 10:10 AM
02/12/20 10:10 AM
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Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 4,609 Alabama
Rmart30
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 4,609
Alabama
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Rmart30 - Good info. My ultimate goal on the three acre plot is to plant soybean, corn or some other food source for deer. Did you use a contractor, if so, who? PM me if you prefer. North Alabama land clearing and forestry mulching is who the contractor was. Tyler Rains 256-777-3384 Even though he was about 40% more I went with him over local guys with skidsteer mulchers because his machines were higher hp and larger and wider heads. The machine I linked above that did mine was 2 ft wider than most skid steer heads and 100hp more. So for every pass he made he was getting 2 ft more of work done which saved time. Since they did mine they have upgraded to even higher HP machines. They charge a flat daily rate for 8 hours of run time. It was not cheap for what he did for me but when you compare what he did in 8 hours to finished product, to what it would have taken me, with my saws, tractor with grapple, 2 laborers, 3 or 4 weekends cost of wood chipper and stump grinder rental I was money ahead letting him knock it out in a day. Here is one of his new mulchers and his subsoiler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR7FI0AVU3Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMHhF-Me05g
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching - even when doing the wrong thing is legal. Aldo Leopold .. (except when it comes to trailer tags)
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Re: Stump Removal
[Re: Out back]
#3040507
02/12/20 09:59 PM
02/12/20 09:59 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 9,375 Jasper, AL
joshm28
14 point
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14 point
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Jasper, AL
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One pound of tannerite, five pounds of ammonium nitrate. That’s gonna leave a crater
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