Everything You Need To Know To Find The Best Bulldozer Stump Removal

Apperantly not many here have cleared much land with a dozer...
A decent root rake on just about any dozer will dig a 12" stump out. A rake on a D4H or 12 ton class tractor will work quite proficiently at that. A 6 will be faster but probably not a lot faster.
That said... a 160-200 class excavator with a root rake or bucket and thumb will be the best unit for the job as you can clean the stumps a lot better with a hoe.
The trick to working with small crawlers in big stumps... is you use the corner of the rake to break the roots off. Break the stump in half or quarters and take it out piece by piece... and the same with the hoe. While you could easily pop those stumps out with a 7 or 8 class tractor... you take the soil with them and you probably won't have the versatility or want to take the time with that machine to get the stumps clean... and if you don't... THEY WILL NOT BURN. All the oil in arabia will not burn soil laden stumps.

Rod

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12-13-2002 18:46:53

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 Re: stump removal with dozer in reply to reefsan, 12-13-2002 16:26:31   Several years ago I had a TD6 International. I tried it once on an elm tree stump that measured about 12" across the stump and was about the same out of the ground. I worked about an hour and a half digging around that stump in a triangular pattern before I got the stump broke loose to push out of the hole I had dug. When I got that stump out of the hole it was about 10 feet tall. And the worst part about it was that I was completely exhausted from operating the steering hand clutches and the main clutch. During this era of my life I was working at a Case Power and Equipment store as a Contruction equipment tech. I used to use the Case Equipment to do the same job to test repairs made. WHat I found out was you needed at least 80 hp crawler to get that stump out quicker and the big plus was you had the power to break the stump off sooner so you wouldn't have to go as deep. Another thing was that the torque convertor put more power to push it out easier, kind of like using a pneumatic impact gun compared to a hand ratchet. The best tool I seen for removing stumps was a 'stump ripper' attachment for the dozer blade. These were for 130 hp crawlers and would be fitted to the left front corner of the blade. It had a vertical cutting blade that extended out about 8 feet in front of the blade that was angled down from the blade height to about a hieght of 6 inches, then a horizontal blade with a cutting edge would angle back to the center of the dozer blade. The idea of this blade was to split the stump apart in small pieces until it was gone while. This blade would remove the stump to about 12 inches below ground level and thus avoiding the usual sink holes associated with removing the stump by the roots. The only problem with this blade one the crawler was it was extremely hard on final drives, especially the left side. Good luck on your stump removal.

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