Thursday, February 14, 2013

Moving Stumps

I have stumped (i.e dug out of ground) most of the trees I fell with the exception of the recent ones.  There were five huge old growth stumps that I couldn't budge but I was only using a 4ton mini excavator.  I have just piled the stumps in the middle of the cleared area to keep them out of the way but it makes it look 'busy' and not open. 

Originally we had planned to burn but it is illegal to do anything more than a 3' x 5' fire so we will just move them off in the wood line along the east property line and then burn them one at a time in the future.  Since there are still a lot of saplings, scotch broom, and some remaining underbrush in the cleared area, decided we should go ahead with some bigger equipment to get it ready to really stake out and plan for foundation excavation (although that probably wont happen until May).  John (our friends that bought the 5acres behind us and the guy pulling chains in an earlier post) has worked a deal to trade upholstry/body work for some land clearing.  So, he has a team clearing a HUGE area on his property for the house and a 70' shop (sweet).  After they finished, they came my way and are spending a couple hours.  Not sure the damage yet since I don't do body work but maybe I can architect an enterprise solution for them :-0


 After he piled up all the stumps, he grabs them and chunks them toward the side and then moves over to place them along the side property line.  Nothing like a 20T beast to throw stuff around like a rag doll.
 
This is 1/2 of one of the huge old growth stumps

 
Making quick work of the pile
 
Here's a quick video of the action
 

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