#130 How to Remove Stumps With Backhoe On RK55

[Music] so welcome back everybody Mike here this is day two of the beautiful weather and I know it's not going to last so I'm going to take advantage of this while it's here I just got home from work and I got about an hour and a half a day light left so I'm going to dig some stumps but first I got to clean up all these treetops [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the grapple works fantastic it really does but anyway now I'm going to try this backhoe out on digging some stumps up now one thing to keep in mind a backhoe on a tractor is not comparable to a mini excavator if you've seen some of my other videos I've rented a bobcat efore t2 and it really does a job that map machines probably ten thousand five hundred pounds maybe eleven thousand pounds something like that there's really no comparison between an excavator and a backhoe on a tractor however this backhoe costs fifty five hundred dollars and that many excavators probably sixty five thousand give or take so an excavator costs roughly ten to twelve times as much as this so for you know just on your own property if your knee tobacco occasionally this is a great backhoe to have if you're doing this every single day you would want to get a mini excavator and find a way to pay for that sixty five thousand dollar machine but anyway when I approached stumps they're a pain in the neck they really are some people grind them like if I'm in my yard for example I have a buddy with a stump grinder I could get him to grind those stumps off and just get them below the ground a little bit but in areas where I'm doing like food plots and things like that I like to get the whole thing out that way if you're disking it up or running the tiller over it all the roots are gone and so I like to dig them out and burn them and I always make sure when I'm burning them that I have a big bunch of brush to go with it to keep the fire nice and hot keep feeding stumps on it more brush and do it that way and a lot of times when I'm cutting these little trees down I'll leave the stumps about two or three feet out of the ground I know people have asked why I do that and that's for leverage when I'm trying to pull the stumps out now one thing to keep in mind when you're digging stumps on it's kind of like going to battle except the stump start shooting at ya which that's a good thing but you know you need to think it through and find its weakness don't just start wrenching on the stump it's probably not going to come out I mean you can test it out a little bit but I like to start the outsides and start popping the roots you know and and every little root you pop makes it weaker and weaker work your way around it everyone smile give it a little tug and see how it is and eventually it will come out I've seen people you know with their front loader on the tractor you know get frustrated and they back up and start ramming it you don't want to do that you will tear up your loader arms and tear up your tractor and it's not worth it over a stump so you just take your time there's some things with a tractor especially like fine grading or digging stumps that sometimes the slower you move the quicker you'll actually get done and I know it doesn't make sense but it's true anyway I'm gonna start on this stump here by just starting around the outsides of it pop a few roots out and see how it goes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] that actually went faster than what I thought it would maybe five minutes total to get those two stumps out that's not bad at all now the one was real small maybe three inches in diameter and the other one was about eight inches but you can see that's a pretty big root ball for even an 8-inch cherry tree but as I say earlier you just want to take your time and kind of get to know the stump I know that sounds silly but that's what you need to do you give a little tug you know reach around all the sides of it and pop those roots every root that you pop makes it weaker and weaker and weaker and you just keep doing that and give it another tug and look all around it when you're pulling on that stump you'll see a little bit of ground lift up somewhere it might be on the back side or right in front of you that's where there's a main root and so you want to break that root out next and you just keep doing that take your time and they pop right out you know if I had a 32 inch oak tree I'd probably be up here half a day trying to get that out of here but it's the same method whether you're running a backhoe like this or an excavator or whatever just work the roots in from the outside keep feeling your way around there and in no time you'll have that stump out of there without tearing anything up if you're using your loader on the front of your tractor you know you really want to be careful don't get frustrated and don't start ramming it or anything like that you're just going to tear things up and that won't be good especially if you're hitting it on one side of the bucket or the other and not you know right in the middle if you hit it on one side you're twisting everything so you don't want to do that but anyway if you have a tractor and you get a backhoe I hope this is a little bit helpful if you've never dug stumps before and like I always say if you enjoy these videos please click subscribe and hit the like button and share them with your friends thanks [Music]

Channel: Outdoors With The Morgans

Views: 98,943

Keywords: Stump Removal, Digging Stumps, The Perfect Way To Remove Stumps, Stump Grinding, RK55 Tractor, Rural King, Country Living, Food Plot, Modern Homestead, Rural Living, Firewood, Land Clearing, Brush Hog, Kubota, John Deere, Massey Ferguson, New Hollan, Mahindra, Yanmar, TYM, Turbo Diesel, Property Management, Buying Land

Id: 20lOSdiUEj4

Length: 10min 42sec (642 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 01 2018