Pulling Stumps with a Wheel
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Published 2020-05-11
For you "tough guys" who believe I must have been "doing it wrong" because I'm a girl or because Chevy trucks suck or because you have a complex, spare me the tale and just come up here and prove it. Honest, I will invite you up here, you can laugh at the tiny little stubbly tree stumps and brag about how easily your dickmobile can pull out a stump 12947848x bigger, and then you can hook up to the stump and turn 50 shades of red as your truck slips and shimmies and spins on the gravel instead of pulling the stump. Truly. These itty bitty trees have strong, flexible roots, firm soil, and slippery bark. I wish I was kidding; if they were easy to yank, my whole field would be stumpless by now!
** Also worth noting - WE DID NOT LOG THE PROPERTY.**
It was logged before we purchased it in 2017. If it had been us, we would have only thinned the trees for optimal health and fire safety, and we would have cut them in such a way that would have made stump removal easier. While we don't plan to entirely re-forest it, we do plan to plant more trees once the grass has had a chance to take root.
To everyone else: THANK YOU FOR WATCHING!! :) :)
All Comments (21)
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I've never seen this method before but heck, that worked perfectly. Thanks for sharing that trick.
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I had 4 huge hedge trees in my flowerbeds. I do not have space for a truck or any equipment in my tiny yard. I watched your video and it looked so easy. Had my SIL use a big tire and my pickup, then threaded the strap through my 3ft gate. All the hedges were out in less than 5 minutes. So easy, thank you, you saved me the cost of fence removal and left me with a better, bigger yard.
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Great tip, worked with my hands for years and never heard of this. Thank you for sharing.
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My wife could use this technique to get me out of bed in the morning.
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wife,......2 mins of explaining, hands phone to husband...…."Uh-Huh, that's it"...…4 words. men are simple creatures. Great video!
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Love your please read thing! So many people so often want to be experts when they know nothing about a situation or the specifics of a problem. I really like how you got this out and learned a lot. Cheers from Australia
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Used a similar technique for years like this with a Landrover and tractor wheel like this it worked brilliantly as long as you have firm ground to work on
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Great trick... thanks for making it straight to the point... that works like a champ!
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New York farmers used a more sophisticated version of this as they built the Erie Canal sections on their several properties. Two huge wheels connected by a much thinner axle that had the rope wrapped around it. The big wheels pulled by oxen gave the axle a huge mechanical advantage that could snatch 48 trees per day.
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Did the exact same thing with a harbor freight winch, a semi tire and rim and a good chain, double lined the winch back to an anchored Truck. High idle, short pulls with winch and out came stumps of the same size.. Way safer than yanking on them in my neighborhood. Yes, i did have saddle blankets over winch cable and wireless setup from a safe distance away. Moral of the story, physics is your friend. Redirection of the force from horizontal to vertical with mechanical leverage and advantage.
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This is great. I'm literally about to pull up some obnoxious small trees in the next few days. Thanks for sharing! You can do the same thing recovering a vehicle that's sucked down in mud. Breaks the suction. Never thought to do it to pull stumps though. Brilliant.
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Awesome way to remove stump. I used a timber hitch at the base and then a 1/2 hitch up a couple inches. Doesn’t take nearly as long to tie and untie
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Brilliant! I'd tried a bunch of times to saw, drill, hack an old stump out from behind my fence. It never occured to me to just "pull up". Thank you!
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Tie-down straps are incredibly strong. The semi tire basically acts as a pulley. This is pure genius!
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that's really ingenious.. using the second oldest tool in the world, the lever, (the first being your husband's back), in a very unique way. I will defiantly remember this trick
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Redirection of force, a pulley simple and effective
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Simplicity at it’s finest! Brilliant.
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I even find this with flat weeds in my yard. If you gather up every single frond and slowly pull upwards it slides out roots and all every time. Miss one frond, pull fast or sideways and it stays put. Thx for sharing your know how.
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Thanks for the video. You two seem to be living the country life. Nice! May your pony forgive you for removing his ponyhood and your hubbie never piss you off enough to take his!
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This is a great trick. I used it to extract fenceposts after I saw it here last year. It saved me taking a front loader to the client's property - Thank you!
