Bobcats & Stumps

[Thumper]

Hello all, Anyone know if a Bobcat mini-excavator or Kubota is really beefy enough to dig/pull out stumps for a 150' driveway excavation? The 38 stumps are mostly cedar ( 6-8") and poplar (up to 16" diameter) the root balls seem to be very shallow - less than a foot, but there's lotsa roots!... they seem to be a little more than the jeep can yank! :wink: I can't find a rental stump grinder and I'm just looking for enough of an excavation to clear a path for small brush shredding equipment.

http://www.srvsup.com/netstuff/03100507.jpg

[Pokey]

Just my best guess, but it would think a mini excavator would work well, especially if the roots are shallow.

[Cole]

Awesome, Location.


I think you could do it with a bobcat but a mini excavator would probably work better.

Or using them in tandem would be better.

[VALENT]

that is a nice driveway to be

[dhill]

Valent, you have trees like that around your place don't you? I agree, awesome looking site. How come us Texas boys are enamored by landscape like that?

[VALENT]

Dhill, I've got some nice trees, sure, but not for my driveway like that. Most of my trees are bottom land hardwoods- bur oak, pecan, elms and some willows and some huisache.

[Thumper]

Hey thanks all, I loved the area as soon as I found it - I actually chose the lot nearly two years before the subdivision roadways were even pushed in and the vendor's signs went up... :)

The poplars range up to 70' & 90' tip to stump - the biggest chore so far has been finding someone that will take the 200 logs off my hands without charging me a fortune for their removal (I never dreamed you couldn't just give away straight as a pin, 30' cedar logs, 8" in butt-diameter... I knew poplar, pine and spruce was "junk" wood around here so I expected to have to pay for its disposal... $400 just get a truck to the site & $400 more to load it - yeash!)

Here's another view south-westerly, as the house will face: (poor ole' red-jeep is just too long to wiggle past the first few stumps so it's not been able to play in the mud... yet! :lol:

http://www.srvsup.com/netstuff/03091303.jpg

[VALENT]

thumper, looks good. How long would it take for your logs to just rot away instead of paying for their removal? How big is your lot?

[Thumper]

thumper, looks good. How long would it take for your logs to just rot away instead of paying for their removal? How big is your lot?

I had thought of that (I guess I'm just too Scottish to fork over the cash for hauling away firewood :lol: ) The lot is 2 acres, mostly very thick cedar which doesn't rot too well - there's a good layer of windfalls and such already in the deeper-woods... & a couple 3-foot stumps with charcole inside from a forest fire 90 years ago, so this is all second growth stuff and very tight grained due to the Canadain growth seasons... current plan is to cut it all up into firewood sizes and just put a "free wood" add in the paper... I've had 3 or 4 chipping compines that were willing to pick it up & an old farmer who wanted the cedar for fence posts but no one ever showed up. I have to laugh when I see finished pine in HD at $2.oo a foot (& the same 2 bucks for SPF studs) but yet piles & piles of cut timber laying all over the province just going to waste cause no one wants it.

[VALENT]

yeah, thats a shame. I would love to have all that cedar but it might be expensive to get it here. I guess you could see if someone around you has a portable wood mill and if they are interested. I know its big in some places(i've seen them here some) and you could come away with some wood nicely cut and ready for the kiln.

[giddonah]

I'm too much of a pyro not to want to build a bonfire out of it :twisted:

Oh yeah, and along those lines, how about removing the stumps with dynamite :?: :idea: :P

[MD_Willington]

See if anyone has a portable mill in your area. Give them an area to setup and they will probably take the job, especially if it is cedar.

Some water gel will take out the stumps, but it can make a mess and may be cost prohibative