As a follow-up to this, I witnessed my neighbor across the creek at the back of my property using yet another method. He pulled out a stump, which was cut off about 3 feet from the ground, with his tractor. Took him about 10 minutes total.

Well I posted under the assumption that you were not rich.

If you can afford a tractor, you might want to try what I did to get a friends aborvite root system out after watching him flay away with a hand axe for a few hours. I took my 15 lb cast steel navy fluke anchor that I use for fishing and shoved the flukes as deep into the root mass as possible. I ran a 3/8" diameter links chain from the mandrel of the anchor to the back of my FORD (Other truck owners can forget about it.) E150 vans home made tow bar assembly, put it in low, dragged out the root system, and moved the house foundation about 3 feet. We returned the house foundation to its original site by catapualting GM trucks at the side of the house as their soft bodies do not damage the brick, and besides using them as bouy anchors, that's one of the only things they are good for.

Good luck with your new tractor.

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On any other forum this would probably qualify as shameless flame-baiting but I am sure your civilized membership will take this in the humor it was meant!

BTW, I have neither GM nor FORD vehicles. I am one of the perverse ones who enjoy spending all my money keeping chryslers running! <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Dodge Trucks. Good Idea!

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David

BountyHunter--

Were you using the Ford as an axe, or to hammer a wedge in? <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

David

I guess it don't git no easier then that <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Watch that, bountyhunter...Suburbans RULE...Chevy FOREVER! <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You want an honest opinion about trucks? Being the owner of a 1995 diesel GMC Suburban, a 2000 V8 Ford Explorer, a 1996 Ford diesel E350 van, and a 1999 Dodge 5.9L dumptruck.......I can say the Suburban is the best out of the four.

Edit: By the way the Explorer is the fastest though. <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I have to agree on the Suburban.

Our '91 GMC has 239,000+ miles on it, & is still going strong. I told my wife we have to keep it until at least a quarter million!

I once "punted" a full-size Ford F150 into a full-size Chevy C10 (impact at just under 30MPH). Had I not broken a line to the oil cooler, my Suburban would still have been drivable.

David

Hey ! Is that possible ?
Or is it some kind of oxymoron, or what ??...
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