[25] Pulling a Giant Ash Stump (Kubota BX23s & Bobcat e45)

[Music] all right so now that I've removed the entire front wall and transported all the rocks to the back and some of the retaining wall and on the sides the yard we have to get rid of this ash tree stump somehow so the other day I dug along the front I didn't see any roots going out to the street they seemed to all kind of curve back into the yard so that's good but of course these are your big roots did a little bit of digging here for a rock and just a little bit more and broke a couple and now it's on to break a lot of these ones that I can see and then they go completely around it and see how we finagle it out if we can [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so I've spent about two and a half days with my dad digging out around this thing it's it's in there pretty good and I didn't expect to really get it out completely with the Kubota but I basically wanted to try and remove as much exterior roots of it as possible to get down to the root ball and see what I could do from there whether it was pulling it yanking it or what-have-you but I think at this point there's just too many rocks in it especially this one in the back and you know I can't really chainsaw it because it keeps getting caught up and dulling my blade no matter what I try so I went ahead and rented a bigger excavator because it'd be fun to use in because I could get out to stump and do a couple other things I actually called about six or seven rental companies for about a three to four tonne excavator and all of them had nothing available or their prices were pretty ridiculous so Bobcat in New Hampshire was not too far from me and they had one available and the price is actually insanely good I have it for three days over the whole weekend it was delivered in everything for about 700 bucks every other company they wanted about 300 per day and that didn't include delivery and they tracked hours eight hours a day so they don't track hours on this machine they don't care they gave it to me for three days for seven hundred bucks it seems good enough to me I've never operated an excavator before but I've been really wanting to and I think after using the backhoe for a while I'll adapt to it pretty quickly I have it swapped over to SAE controls so I can use it a bit easier so the first thing I'm gonna try here is I've got these like to 10 to 12 inch stumps that I got st. sitting around try and get these guys out just to kind of learn the controls and try and pull some stuff out [Music] [Music] all right so that's a problem because I'm now addicted to the amount of power that machine of this size can have so that was those stumps came out real easy they were breaking in half before I could even get them fully deep-rooted so that was a lot nicer than dealing with a smaller smaller machine but you you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right well there's no more stump here looks great I just went back over it with the excavator and filled it in and then just kind of swiped everything even ish I didn't want to pack it down too much because I'm gonna have to come back through here with a york rake and box blade to get real level in here and it would be easier if the soil is loose so when I'm driving over and I'm compacting it and pulling it at the same time with the tractor so it's not a huge pain but yeah this 45 worked pretty good for it getting used to the controls a bit more just like the Kubota even though it's not direct to hydraulic it's very very fast on the cab swing so oh I'll go to turn it and it will just go crazy just like the boom swing on the Kubota backhoe so getting used to that other than that the machines working pretty good no complaints for the few hours that I've used it and here's the stump after I had the rocks out of it things quite large it's my foot next to it so yeah tips the Machine completely when you go to pick it up and these were the two rocks that were inside of it these are also a couple hundred pounds apiece so there you go ash dump is out

Channel: Carlson & Son Landscaping, LLC

Views: 159,584

Keywords: Eternity, timelapse, bobcat, Kubota, excavator, ash, pulling, rocks, stump, giant, Engineering, BX23S, Bucket, e45, backfill, Front End Loader, Home, Backhoe, grading, Improvement, big, digging

Id: 5OGjBIkahww

Length: 32min 13sec (1933 seconds)

Published: Sat May 30 2020