Mr Pickles
Diamond Member
Zip ties and a cement brick. That'll hold against whatever current you're dumping them in.
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Chains are depressingly expensive
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Specop 007
Diamond Member
HAHAHA!
Nice 😀
DrPizza
Administrator Elite Member Goat Whisperer
lmao @ using 200 feet of 5/8 inch chain to pull down those trees! btw, I googled and within a minute, I found a source under $8 per foot, free shipping. It was the same source as linked above.
Nonetheless, working with about 750 pounds of chain should be a piece of cake! 😉 I really think that 200 feet would be overkill. You can't go too high up into the tree, else you're just going to break off limbs, rather than pull the tree over. You're not going to get much more than 15 or 20 feet up in any of those trees; none in that first picture look like they're much more than 35 or 40 feet high. With the equipment you have available, I'm amazed that you don't have a chainsaw. Then again, looking at the rest of the area - there isn't too much of a need. But, for what you have, just get a relatively cheap consumer chainsaw (Poulan or something like that for about $100), cut them off about 5 feet up, then pull or push the stumps over with the bucket on the tractor. fwiw, the cheaper (i.e Home Depot, Lowes) chain saws work just fine for casual use, but if you use them quite a few times a year, the oil pumps, etc., will probably fail in them within 2 or 3 years.
Also, that shed looks pretty nice and useful - get a new roof on it! I'd suggest getting a good 30 or 40 year steel roof, but given the weather characteristics in Nebraska, that sheet metal could eventually prove to be a deadly flying object. $50 and 2 hours of work will give that shed another 20 years of useful life. I'd suggest priming it and painting it, but that would be a lot of work. Instead, use your used oil from oil changes & mix in some Thompson's or something to thin it and spray down the wood to help preserve it. Add the old shingles to the bonfire you're going to have with that wood from the dead trees.
Nonetheless, working with about 750 pounds of chain should be a piece of cake! 😉 I really think that 200 feet would be overkill. You can't go too high up into the tree, else you're just going to break off limbs, rather than pull the tree over. You're not going to get much more than 15 or 20 feet up in any of those trees; none in that first picture look like they're much more than 35 or 40 feet high. With the equipment you have available, I'm amazed that you don't have a chainsaw. Then again, looking at the rest of the area - there isn't too much of a need. But, for what you have, just get a relatively cheap consumer chainsaw (Poulan or something like that for about $100), cut them off about 5 feet up, then pull or push the stumps over with the bucket on the tractor. fwiw, the cheaper (i.e Home Depot, Lowes) chain saws work just fine for casual use, but if you use them quite a few times a year, the oil pumps, etc., will probably fail in them within 2 or 3 years.
Also, that shed looks pretty nice and useful - get a new roof on it! I'd suggest getting a good 30 or 40 year steel roof, but given the weather characteristics in Nebraska, that sheet metal could eventually prove to be a deadly flying object. $50 and 2 hours of work will give that shed another 20 years of useful life. I'd suggest priming it and painting it, but that would be a lot of work. Instead, use your used oil from oil changes & mix in some Thompson's or something to thin it and spray down the wood to help preserve it. Add the old shingles to the bonfire you're going to have with that wood from the dead trees.
They're really not that bad. The biggest problem you run into is if you don't plan it carefully when you make the wedge cut and the tree shifts a little and pins the blade. Then you gotta cut it out with another chainsaw.
Cutting down the trees with a chainsaw, and then demolishing the stump with one of those tractors is what I would probably do. You could also try using the chainsaw on the exposed roots and then pushing them over with the tractor.
MmmSkyscraper
Diamond Member
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
BoomerD
No Lifer
None of those trees warrants 5/8" chain to begin with...5/8" High Test chain, (the lowest grade I'd even consider) has a working load limit of 13000 lbs...transport chain has a WLL of 15,800 lbs. I don't think I'd consider anything bigger than 3/8" myself. That has a WLL of 6600 lbs. (transport grade)
BTW, if you went with 5/8" wire rope chokers, you'd save money, it'd be lighter and easier to work with, and would be just as strong...if not stronger. 5/8 wire rope, depending on the type, lays, and core should have a nominal strength of 15 or more tons. (that's not its hoisting capacity, just it's strength. A safe WLL would be between 1/2 and 3/4 of the nominal strength for pulling.
BTW, if you went with 5/8" wire rope chokers, you'd save money, it'd be lighter and easier to work with, and would be just as strong...if not stronger. 5/8 wire rope, depending on the type, lays, and core should have a nominal strength of 15 or more tons. (that's not its hoisting capacity, just it's strength. A safe WLL would be between 1/2 and 3/4 of the nominal strength for pulling.
Specop 007
Diamond Member
You can need a chain on a farm for more then trees.
Worst "Awwww shit" we've had was getting a fun grain truck stuck in the field. Our average weight when loaded is 28,000 pounds, we've tipped the scale at over 31 on good years.
If your going to buy a chain to pull things you might as well spend the coin to buy a chain to do it all.
But I like the wire rope stuff.
Thanks for the links guys! 😎
BoomerD
No Lifer
Having worked construction for more than 30 years, I've seen or had to pull my share of equipment out of the mud. A chain that's heavy enough to handle the weight of a fully loaded scraper or dump truck is usually too heavy for a man to handle safely, whereas a wire rope can do the job, yet be handled without throwing out someone's back.
I do agree that if you're going to buy chain, you spend the $$$ to buy GOOD chain. Something domestic like Campbell instead of the Chinese crap at Harbor Freight, that will actually live up to it's specs.
I do agree that if you're going to buy chain, you spend the $$$ to buy GOOD chain. Something domestic like Campbell instead of the Chinese crap at Harbor Freight, that will actually live up to it's specs.
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