Thread: pulling bamboo out

Back hoe

Hi Dave,

Mine is a suburban block. Believe me, if I could get a bobcat in, I would.

My sideway is only one metre wide, so no machinery is possible.

Ken

http://www.kennards.com.au/index.php...6YzphDPEVxI.97

Only 780mm wide

Michael

Originally Posted by neksmerj

Hi Dave,


My sideway is only one metre wide, so no machinery is possible.

Ken

With the fence down??

Originally Posted by neksmerj

Hi Dave,

Mine is a suburban block. Believe me, if I could get a bobcat in, I would.

My sideway is only one metre wide, so no machinery is possible.

Ken

There are many narrow profile stump grinders will get down a 1m spacing and will make really short work of that job, and I mean really short.
The Tree lopper has several including a wireless joystick operated bobbie, It penetrates about 300 mm below the surface and if you clear the soil away you can just keep going
The other option is to hire a Dingo with narrow back hoe on it, they are gutsy little tikes and will easily fit

Engineering and gardening....lol
You need 3.14
It is a well known fact that engineers opinions without 3.142 is an onion

Hi Ken, do you have a friend with a 4WD? He might have a high lift jack (they go by a number of names, farm jack etc.) with a short length of chain under/around the stump, looped over the bar of the jack, they should come out quite easily. Warning these jacks can be dangerous, so use with care.
Kryn

What the hell, I didn't even know we had a gardening forum! I've just been surfing, I like it!!

Hi lift sounds like a plan. I've used mine to do all sorts of things. Do you have a straight line to your driveway? How about a drag chain around the whole shooting match and then attached to your car? Or, if you don't have a straight line to the car, use a re-direct such as a pulley. You can buy them for around $60 from off road recovery places.

Simon

Originally Posted by simonl

What the hell, I didn't even know we had a gardening forum! I've just been surfing, I like it!!

Hi lift sounds like a plan. I've used mine to do all sorts of things. Do you have a straight line to your driveway? How about a drag chain around the whole shooting match and then attached to your car? Or, if you don't have a straight line to the car, use a re-direct such as a pulley. You can buy them for around $60 from off road recovery places.

Simon

That will be a good way to bend the car and when the chains slips off to make a hole in your fence, wall, back windscreen. dog or all 4

It is amazing just how many separate forums we have here.

A farmer friend of mine is bringing down a star post lifter tomorrow, for me to try out.

I've got some 1/4" high tensile chain, so if I can't use the star post jaws directly, I'll wrap the chain around the bamboo, add some snap-ons, and see what happens.

I have found so far that if some of the roots are severed at ground level, the stems can be pulled out or at least broken off.

This stuff is so tenacious, worse than pulling teeth. Might be good for building scaffolding!

Wish me luck.

Ken

Originally Posted by eskimo

Engineering and gardening....lol
You need 3.14
It is a well known fact that engineers opinions without 3.142 is an onion

it's pie plus beer

Originally Posted by ian

it's pie plus beer

the old heavy hoe is the go, or the way we removed stumps on the property, never knew which they went as we were hiding behind the landcruser

Originally Posted by ian

it's pie plus beer

That's a 2 course meal, if you've a 6 pack it's a 7 course. DO NOT operate machinery after eating.
Kryn