flying haggis
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Hire a Micro Digger?
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Jonm
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Not sure why there is all this talk about removing stumps. OP in his first sentence said
Jonm
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Thank you, I do not have any experience of them but to me, if someone is hiring a digger to remove soil which has to go in a skip then one of these seem ideal. Pleased to know they work well.they are
Tris
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They do work well, but if there's any distance to cover they are slow. Had an area returfed where I work and it took three of these to keep up with a 1 tonne minidigger as the tipping point was about 150ft away
MARK.B.
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You can hire mini dumpers with wheels rather than tracked ,do the same job just a lot quicker getting from A to B
I bought 2 sheets of ply to track it across my lawn. But ply was cheaper in the old days (last year)
I had a similar long row of them maybe 8 inches or so in diameter. Had cut them down leaving about three foot stumps so I still had some leverage. Not looking forward to getting them out, or entirely decided on how I was going to do it. Local farmer is a friend and had come round with a big teleloader to move some earth for me. He just grabbed them with the bucket and pulled them up like carrots, most impressive. Big old machine mind you, the bucket was around 8 foot wide.
Mini dumpers come into their own when either:
Theres narrow access for other machines
Sloped terrain
Heavy kit to move
If youve got a bad back
Ive got one, slow, like 5kph, but moves 500kg per load, which is a lot more than a standard wheelbarrow. Hydraulic tip. Perfect in the mud or any difficult terrain.
Mine will JUST fit through an external doorway, i.e, into a house.
Sometimes though, its quicker on a wheelbarrow
flying haggis
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I did take out a couple of tree stumps for my neighbour with my range rover when I had it! He had left the "stump" about 6 foot high so with a couple of ratchet straps and low ratio four wheel drive I just let the RR tickover and it levered the trunks out and just kept pulling till the roots gave. Quite enjoyable really!!
And a when I worked for a builders merchants and drove a truck with a hiab I pulled out several posts etc including a nine inch square oak post that had been sunk three feet into the ground, I took pity on the poor sod trying to get it out by digging with a spade and stuck a chain round it and pulled it out with the accompanying sound akin to a cork coming out a big wine bottle.
And a when I worked for a builders merchants and drove a truck with a hiab I pulled out several posts etc including a nine inch square oak post that had been sunk three feet into the ground, I took pity on the poor sod trying to get it out by digging with a spade and stuck a chain round it and pulled it out with the accompanying sound akin to a cork coming out a big wine bottle.
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flying haggis
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The one I hired had wheels and the bucket when tipped in the low position rather than the raised tip into a skip position could be "driven" into the soil pile so half loaded itself!!....
Thank you again all. I’ve had a landscaper get back to me who wants to come and give a price this week, so will wait and see what that comes in at first (assuming he actually turns up). Otherwise I’ll decide how to get on and do it myself
Sean
Well spotted!
Sean
