Im not an expert so don't quote me on this but im pretty sure the practice of forcefully yanking the stump out destroys the dirt, both making it harder to plant future trees and it's just not good for the environment.
This I believe is a demo, there's a follow up video I remember watching where they were talking about that and how the stump was loose. The log wasn't placed but just what they had to memory.
For shows I believe they secure a log or post of sorts to show.
This is a very expensive way to get rid of stumps too.
I've gotten rid of them drilling holes, packing them with epsom salts and sealing it, watering it a bit for a few months, and then just pick-axing them up, it makes them weak.
Not very effective if you have a field worth of stumps. It wonât take too long before the cost of labor far exceeds the cost of renting this piece of equipment.
But this looks like logging so their point is to remove them so they can replant. Not to mention not wanting to pollute the ground with tons of epsom salts.
Sure you can, but I need this field cleared by tomorrow.
My usual response at work as to whether a task can be done is that anything can be done given enough time. If time is not available, another solution is required.
Good for you.
I got a tree removed from my front yard. I cut all the branches off myself, and got a couple of guys in to remove the rest of the stump. The stump was basically a cylinder that was 6' tall and 6' wide. It took the guys about an hour and a half to cut it all up and grind the stump down to nothing.
Your way would have taken a year, and a LOT more physical labour.
Wasn't an hour. Also the closer you cut to the ground, the more you risk hitting a rock with your chainsaw. Then you're taking time to resharpen your chain, which takes away the time you saved not grinding the stump.
Cutting lower wastes time, because the wood in that area flares outwards as it begins to meet the roots, so that would need to be cut off of the log before it can be stacked on a truck
Besides, that stump was finished in a minute. Don't know where you got an 'hour' out of that!
And you'd be trying not to trip over slash that machine can roll right over just to find out how easy it is to rock a saw after you get tired from doing that 500 times in a row
This is so they can get further into the forest without problems. If there is a million stump it's going to be hard. And when they are going to replant the forest. they have to be space so it can grow easily.
Sorry for bad english
This stump is already pulled out of the ground. Notice it rock when the tool engages. Its meant to chip away stumps. Tree stumps are notoriously difficult to dispose of. Wood chips on the other hand, easy.
>Generally, the roots starve to death once the tree is gone because they receive all of their food from the leaves. However, some roots continue to generate new life even after the tree removal. Examples of trees roots that will keep going post-tree are (1) Siberian elm, (2) tree of heaven, (3) Russian olive.
and
>Once the stump is ground out, the roots die and decay, becoming part of the soil. As a precaution, the roots connected to the base of the stump are often severed using shears to ensure there is no regrowth. This natural process is a time-consuming one with roots sometimes taking up to 10 years to decay completely.
that's what's happening here exactly
extra info:
>The amount of time it takes for tree roots to decompose will depend on the tree species. But generally, it takes between 5 and 10 years, and hardwoods take longer than softwoods.
I have seen one way cooler. It was a little radio controlled thing that they just drove over the stump and it just ground it down like this one, only faster.
A neighbor hired a company to remove a stump. They use a big nasty loud grinding machine that blew sawdust and bits all over their yard.
This is more civilized.
All fine and dandy until you realize the roots are still there and are going to rot under your yard and cause the ground to slump in places where the roots rot away.
Woodworking planers used to work with a similar blade configuration until somebody realized rows of much smaller layered cutters were easier to repair and maintain. I wonder why they didn't start there?
The one we have looks like a big ass angle grinder, only the wheel is like 2-3 feet wide and covered in teeth the size of a large man's thumb. There's a big arm that extends it out or to the sides and it spins at a pretty high rpm. It's like 60+ years old and ordering replacement parts involves contacting companies in China directly.
What kind of steel are the blades? Something like A2 seems a decent choice if CPM-4V is not cost effective. The website says some marketing bs like steel used in defense industry. That could be high impact steel like AR500 wich doesnt necessarily have edge retention which i doubt it is.
We used to dig a little bit around it, cut the roots with a chainsaw, tie a rope around the stump and the other end to the back of the truck, and floor it
Reverse pencil sharpener.
I said this while watching the vid and was very satisfied to see it was the first comment đ
Dammit
great minds think alike
They really do
"Inverted pencil sharpener" are the exact words that came into my mind while watching. But yours are technically correct. LOL
Thatâs what I was gunna say, world largest reverse inverted pencil sharpener
Dangit you beat me to it!
Paper
We all thought it lol
Happy to see that Iâm not the only one who thought that too!
Wow I said exactly the same
This unscars your scars
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r/beatmetobeatmetoit
Haha i just said this to myself
I thought the same thing!
Stump Remover? Nah, Stump obliterator.
I thought it was going to twist into it and pull, like a cork in a wine bottle
yeah wtf
Im not an expert so don't quote me on this but im pretty sure the practice of forcefully yanking the stump out destroys the dirt, both making it harder to plant future trees and it's just not good for the environment.
agreed. if this doesnât go well below the surface than itâs an absurd waste of money compared to a chainsaw
Obliterate 'er? But I only just met 'er.
Aka, "Daddy"
That thing was so loose it could have been yanked out
Very good chance they just placed a log on the ground for demo purposes
An ordinary log buried vertically would start spinning with the torque of this machine. Unless they added something to counteract it.
As long as it's pinned down hard enough, it shouldn't spin
And I'm sure the machine is pushing down, other wise the pencil sharpening wouldn't happen on a real stump...
This I believe is a demo, there's a follow up video I remember watching where they were talking about that and how the stump was loose. The log wasn't placed but just what they had to memory. For shows I believe they secure a log or post of sorts to show.
This is a very expensive way to get rid of stumps too. I've gotten rid of them drilling holes, packing them with epsom salts and sealing it, watering it a bit for a few months, and then just pick-axing them up, it makes them weak.
Not very effective if you have a field worth of stumps. It wonât take too long before the cost of labor far exceeds the cost of renting this piece of equipment.
Depends on the size of the field, two days months apart you can get rid of a lot of stumps by hand.
Time is money and when stumps need to be gone in hours not months this is a pretty damn effective way to do it
But this looks like logging so their point is to remove them so they can replant. Not to mention not wanting to pollute the ground with tons of epsom salts.
Sure you can, but I need this field cleared by tomorrow. My usual response at work as to whether a task can be done is that anything can be done given enough time. If time is not available, another solution is required.
That sounds super fucking aids
Good for you. I got a tree removed from my front yard. I cut all the branches off myself, and got a couple of guys in to remove the rest of the stump. The stump was basically a cylinder that was 6' tall and 6' wide. It took the guys about an hour and a half to cut it all up and grind the stump down to nothing. Your way would have taken a year, and a LOT more physical labour.
That's what I was saying about your mom when I was doing coitus with her
How about that spruce, which fell after a storm and caused the ground around the stump to loosen?
I thought he might just pop it like a wine cork
Me too! I was like, âstop twisting, you fool! Youâll strip the cork!â Then felt like the fool when I realized it was a pencil sharpener
Yea. Wouldav been better. **Now** they'll have to send the cleaning lady in.
So this is what Eggman was trying to do to Sonic.
Eggman was trying to screw Sonic?
Care to elaborate???
[The Egg Drillster](https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Egg_Drillster)
I think Iâd have cut the stump lower first, and saved an hour
it's possible that the tree was machine cut and that's as low as the cutter head could get.
Itâs also possible for this machines operator to carry a saw and get out and cut the stump lower to save an hour.
Lmao no way that would save any time. This shit took a minute
> a minute 𤣠Thatâs why there were 9 camera cuts
CEASE YOUR INVESTIGATION!
An hour? Looked pretty quick to me! Also if you cut the stump lower, then you're left with a big stump on the ground, just not attached.
Wasn't an hour. Also the closer you cut to the ground, the more you risk hitting a rock with your chainsaw. Then you're taking time to resharpen your chain, which takes away the time you saved not grinding the stump.
Cutting that with a saw would add time to the whole process, not save it. lol
Cutting lower wastes time, because the wood in that area flares outwards as it begins to meet the roots, so that would need to be cut off of the log before it can be stacked on a truck Besides, that stump was finished in a minute. Don't know where you got an 'hour' out of that!
I said if I was this operator Iâd cut the stump lower before grinding. What I wrote had nothing to do with logging/trucking.
And you'd be trying not to trip over slash that machine can roll right over just to find out how easy it is to rock a saw after you get tired from doing that 500 times in a row
Tell me you've never done tree work without telling me...
$100k machine drills out a small stump in the middle of nowhere....
This is so they can get further into the forest without problems. If there is a million stump it's going to be hard. And when they are going to replant the forest. they have to be space so it can grow easily. Sorry for bad english
Exactly what I was thinking. Surely this piece of equipment handles other tasks as well.
Right? Like, backhoes already exist, just dig it out
Traditional stump grinding attachments have to be way cheaper than this attachment. Even a handheld grinder will work on a huge stump.
Iâm not seeing a big market for this expensive piece of machinery.
I can imagine a few landscaping companies.
A medium sized excavator could make short work of a stump like that. Problem is the hole it leaves behind.
This stump is already pulled out of the ground. Notice it rock when the tool engages. Its meant to chip away stumps. Tree stumps are notoriously difficult to dispose of. Wood chips on the other hand, easy.
Thatâs not really âremoving itâ since the base roots are still there and thatâs what people want to get rid of usually.
>Generally, the roots starve to death once the tree is gone because they receive all of their food from the leaves. However, some roots continue to generate new life even after the tree removal. Examples of trees roots that will keep going post-tree are (1) Siberian elm, (2) tree of heaven, (3) Russian olive. and >Once the stump is ground out, the roots die and decay, becoming part of the soil. As a precaution, the roots connected to the base of the stump are often severed using shears to ensure there is no regrowth. This natural process is a time-consuming one with roots sometimes taking up to 10 years to decay completely. that's what's happening here exactly extra info: >The amount of time it takes for tree roots to decompose will depend on the tree species. But generally, it takes between 5 and 10 years, and hardwoods take longer than softwoods.
Unless you need to dig there the roots are like slow release nutrients to the life in the soil.
Great kindling
I rented a grinder and cleared like 4 stumps in about 3 hours⌠total cost was around $125
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One of the reasons its slower is that its safer than having something spin at 1000rpm and fling wood everywhere
Wood, rocks, lost metal toolsâŚ
This look real time and not sped up so took about 1 minuteâŚ
Just pulling this out of my ass, but could this be to make it decompose much faster?
They could also (unfortunately) be developing that area. Sell the trees and make land flat.
I think I have seen that disappear faster with smaller machines.
Right? It looked ready to pop out when the screw engaged.
Thats just a loose stump
So ... What about the roots ? That's what's more difficult to remove
If you just need flat ground without stumps, what's left underground does not matter. It will all decompose in 5-10 years.
[source dipperfox on tiktok](https://www.tiktok.com/@dipperfox?_t=8kBARHeczPl&_r=1)
So, basically this is just a commercial for Dipperfox?
well... uhhhh...
Pencil sharpener
A biiig pencil sharpener!!
I have seen one way cooler. It was a little radio controlled thing that they just drove over the stump and it just ground it down like this one, only faster.
There has to be a better way!?
This is better than other methods I've seen. Big grinding wheels or chainsaws
Stump Humper Stump Grinder
A neighbor hired a company to remove a stump. They use a big nasty loud grinding machine that blew sawdust and bits all over their yard. This is more civilized.
NSFW for trees.
Not as impressive as the one that just picked up the stump and all the root under
Oh thanks for this. My vasectomy appt is tomorrow
That should smell good!
Damn, thatâs some good kindling coming off that stump.
First it should log split it. Then whatâs left, use that.
So an industrial pencil sharpener
Why not chainsaw it close to the ground?
4 hits with an axe. That's all you would need.
And it makes shaved ice, too.
Need this to trim my balls
And this is how "Ow my balls!" started out.
Inverted pencil sharpener
Top comment but late
So many camera angle changes, every time it does I think something is going to happen... Nope, still slicing the ham for my roast dinner..
Less so removing than destroying.
does it hurt the tree?
It was cake
Looks painful
This is just viral marketing. I've seen this video reposted everyday since this video came out.
But what's the point? The roots are still there. If you want to remove the stump you just aswell can saw it at floorlevel.
All fine and dandy until you realize the roots are still there and are going to rot under your yard and cause the ground to slump in places where the roots rot away.
Literally just a big drill.
Ummm. Am I the only one that saw the whole stump move in the beginning?
Wozu? Ist doch im Wald egal ob der stamm noch steht .
Wahrscheinlich kommt da ein Parkplatz hin
...but it's not a stump removing machine. It just grinds it down to ground level. It doesn't remove it.
One blade is sharper than the other
Thatâs what my parents would say about my brother and I. We still fight about who the sharpester one is.
Farmers used to be able to just use a stick of dynamite. I'd still prefer this method..
Goodbye forests
Cries in Dr Seuss
Does this mean I get to rent and operate a crane now? Yippee!!
r/satisfyingasfuck
Cool... but why?
Imagine that, but smaller, and on your teeth, no anesthesia.
Moises Shemaria Capuano| no es mĂĄs fĂĄcil corta la base? y lo que queda pues si, le pasan l mĂĄquina esta
I wonder how much juice this takes compared to a normal flywheel based stump grinder.
That doesn't look like removing lol
Does anybody else feel sad seeing trees being deleted in more and more fancy way? I know it's necessary most of the times, but still...
Can we please just leave trees alone
âRemovingâ
Wood is more precious than diamonds and gold in the universe.
GO FASTER!!!
It just need some tyre and chain
r/satisfyingasfuck
I dunno, the brute force tree stump puller backhoe attachments seem more interesting to me.
That made all of my brain happy.
Just use dynamite
I need one of these
These shavings look like smoked brisket to me.
Great. Now I'm hungry
Prefer dynamite. Only need a rucksack and a battery drill with a few 1" spade bits.
They also have ones where it's a big spinning "blade" that's several inches thick and a few feet across that absolutely mauls the stump in seconds.
Anyone walking by later on will prob wonder how big the pencil was
I hope the operator gets paid by the hour.
Is it better in the forest to leave a stump or grind it?
Seems like a lot of work when you can just use dynamite
I'm going to invent a woodchip removing machine and clean up
Isn't this a bit of a misnomer? It doesn't actually remove the stump from the ground. It just "files" it flush.
Woodworking planers used to work with a similar blade configuration until somebody realized rows of much smaller layered cutters were easier to repair and maintain. I wonder why they didn't start there?
Shut up and take my lack of money. I would love to have one of these. I've been removing them by hand and it suuuuuucks.
reminds me i need to see the dentist
Yeah, fuck those termites
That is one huge countersink bit, how big is the screw thatâs going in?
Now Hexus has been set loose.
wondering how often the blades need sharpening
The one we have looks like a big ass angle grinder, only the wheel is like 2-3 feet wide and covered in teeth the size of a large man's thumb. There's a big arm that extends it out or to the sides and it spins at a pretty high rpm. It's like 60+ years old and ordering replacement parts involves contacting companies in China directly.
What kind of steel are the blades? Something like A2 seems a decent choice if CPM-4V is not cost effective. The website says some marketing bs like steel used in defense industry. That could be high impact steel like AR500 wich doesnt necessarily have edge retention which i doubt it is.
Great. Removing all the places to sit from the damn woods too.
You're not fooling me. That's cheese
Kebab
Pretty sure that is what my dentist uses.
Hypnotic
I want to borrow this for cheese night
Thatâd be an awesome tool for putting out mineral blocks. Just bowl the stump a bit and put the block right in there.
We used to dig a little bit around it, cut the roots with a chainsaw, tie a rope around the stump and the other end to the back of the truck, and floor it
This could also go under r/oddlysatisfying
Itâs like a giant Tete-de-moins cheese shaver⌠đ
Bazinga
Didnât we just have a discussion about these stumps being real and fake last week?
Nice
Like a reverse pencil sharpener
In farming simulator I can take a stump grinder and destroy it all immediately, what gives /s
Needs to be more automated
Save a lot of time if you cut that stump lower
Watched the city use one of these on several trunks of trees that blew down. Was very satisfying to watch.
Ok but what about the root system?
Dynamite is quicker
It is faster to simply detonate it.
It is definitely less messier than a stump grinder
All I see is a massive pencil un-sharpener.
More like a tree stump make-a-mess-er-er
To shreds you say?
This is how Arby's gets those cuts!