Nailsbeats
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Oh no. I don't think I ever told him.
Pushin Trees Skidsteer Style
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Oh no. I don't think I ever told him.
treemandan
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That was just a joke Nails, my nonchalant way of saying THATS NOT GOOD. I wouldn't do it but you can surely do as you please.
Its not an art and I am not the one to school you BUT if I had a nickle for evrytime I saw someone almost get crushed bashing down trees... even small trees. If I had a nickle for everytime I saw someone push over trees and it didn't go right and endanger everybody else...
Truth is I wouldn't be very rich but that is only cause a nickle don't go very far BUT I am interested to hear what dad had to say about it.
Is it really worth it? I mean how much more work is it to set a notch then push? Leave the stump up high if you want leverage to yank the stump.
See Nails, the notch is what sets us apart from monkeys. Within it is the power to direct mega amounts of force with little manipulation. We came so far with it and here you go just putting it aside and ramming your loader into things like a landscraper who thinks he is a big time tree guy.
Of course I know you know but I had to say something, I need attention to.
Now also see that I didn't call you a landscraper who thinks he is a big time tree guy, I just said it was LIKE one cause that is who I see pushing trees over like that.
I have driven past land clearing operations where I have seen huge trees laying in a pile with the root plate still attached. What in the hell kind of machine can do that?
Its not an art and I am not the one to school you BUT if I had a nickle for evrytime I saw someone almost get crushed bashing down trees... even small trees. If I had a nickle for everytime I saw someone push over trees and it didn't go right and endanger everybody else...
Truth is I wouldn't be very rich but that is only cause a nickle don't go very far BUT I am interested to hear what dad had to say about it.
Is it really worth it? I mean how much more work is it to set a notch then push? Leave the stump up high if you want leverage to yank the stump.
See Nails, the notch is what sets us apart from monkeys. Within it is the power to direct mega amounts of force with little manipulation. We came so far with it and here you go just putting it aside and ramming your loader into things like a landscraper who thinks he is a big time tree guy.
Of course I know you know but I had to say something, I need attention to.
Now also see that I didn't call you a landscraper who thinks he is a big time tree guy, I just said it was LIKE one cause that is who I see pushing trees over like that.
I have driven past land clearing operations where I have seen huge trees laying in a pile with the root plate still attached. What in the hell kind of machine can do that?
Nailsbeats
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Truth be told there was really nothing risky about it, and my old man wouldn't care. He's pushed many a tree over with a dozer. We can climb em, we can drop em, we can push em. Just another technique and tool in the bag.
Dan, the "art" factor is what separates the dead ramrod from the guy that can do it safely and efficiently. There is an art to almost everything if you look at it critically.
Dan, the "art" factor is what separates the dead ramrod from the guy that can do it safely and efficiently. There is an art to almost everything if you look at it critically.
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treemandan
Tree Freak
yes that one was an easy push. We know you are good but still feel we have to warn you about making a habit of it. Press on buddy, you the man.
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treemandan
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I am good, thanks for the compliment, now I can sleep tonight.
OH GOD!
Texas Traveler
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I just spent 3 half days on a John Deere 1700 series rubber tired skid loader, it had 61 HP.
With the fire guard I had cut out I needed every bit of the 61 HP.
I had 8 foot weeds & a sea of 4 foot weeds full of burs.
With the dry spell we have here there was no chance of doing any tree pushing.
I run out of my paid 8 hours by 2, so I get to settle up with them when they do a pickup on the machine. So far it has been 326.00 plus about 65.00 on diesel fuel.
But at my age of 72 that damn thing like to have killed this ole toot.
When I was a kid learning to run bulldozers, I tackled a few dead pecan trees. Never again
They are one bad tree, you never know which way they will fall.
If you tap them a little to much, they will break off high in the top.
You will have at least 2 12 ft.tree trunks coming straight at you.
With the fire guard I had cut out I needed every bit of the 61 HP.
I had 8 foot weeds & a sea of 4 foot weeds full of burs.
With the dry spell we have here there was no chance of doing any tree pushing.
I run out of my paid 8 hours by 2, so I get to settle up with them when they do a pickup on the machine. So far it has been 326.00 plus about 65.00 on diesel fuel.
But at my age of 72 that damn thing like to have killed this ole toot.
When I was a kid learning to run bulldozers, I tackled a few dead pecan trees. Never again
They are one bad tree, you never know which way they will fall.
If you tap them a little to much, they will break off high in the top.
You will have at least 2 12 ft.tree trunks coming straight at you.
treemandan
Tree Freak
I saw this one guy pushing a little pine over. It looked like he had it and was being careful but a lateral root held on one side and it swung round into the pool.
Track loaders and excavators. They were almost made to do just that.
I watched 3 large excavators some years back taking out the entire row of cottonwoods perched on the 2:1 slope above Brush Creek by the "Plaza", a well known shopping district in KC, Mo.
The excavators would dig out a ramp going up this unbelievably steep hill, dig out the roots, and push a 80'-100' tall cottonwood over in about 10 munutes apiece. Then they would scoop it up and pass it down to the bottom of the hill for another excavator to break it into smaller pieces and load into semi trucks. Not a chainsaw in sight, they could break up 4' diameter tree trunks like twigs.
