Towing with manual transmission...

[lylecanterbury]

Well first of all towing and pulling up stumps (or bushes) is two different things.
There is one rule in automotive that is ALWAYS right, and that is that manual transmissions are ALWAYS better than automatics lol. I wouldn't drive ANY vehicle with an automatic because it is a piece of junk. Yes I am joking, but I hate automatics. Secondly, reverse is not always a lower gear (numerically higher) than 1st. In my Jeep (NSG370 6sp manual) 1st gear is 4.46:1 and reverse is 4.06:1.
Thirdly, I once pulled out a job trailer that was stuck in the mud with a 4x4 Toyota after a one ton flat bed Ford with granny gear got stuck trying to pull it out, so don't make fun of any kind of truck because you have some kind of preconceived notion about what a truck is. A silverado with 400hp, 20" wheels and an auto trans is a piece of junk to me

 

[yh125d]

It's been 6 months, I think he probably got it taken care of

 

[Kirby]

It's been 6 months, I think he probably got it taken care of

if not, that was one helluva bush, like 70s pr0n bush.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Hey Guys,

Yesterday, I was helping a friend with yard work.

He had a VERY large bush

...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I stopped reading to puke.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I've had some luck pulling stumps with a pickup, here is how I did it

1. Used a large tractor rim as a pulley wheel to convert the pulling power from horizontal to vertical. Steel cable attached to stump at ground level, then over the tractor rim to the rear of the truck frame.

2. Used a HD dodge P/U with a Cummings turbo diesel and 600 ft lbs of torque

Even at this, bigger stumps required some cuttin and diggin

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I've had some luck pulling stumps with a pickup, here is how I did it

1. Used a large tractor rim as a pulley wheel to convert the pulling power from horizontal to vertical. Steel cable attached to stump at ground level, then over the tractor rim to the rear of the truck frame.

2. Used a HD dodge P/U with a Cummings turbo diesel and 600 ft lbs of torque

Even at this, bigger stumps required some cuttin and diggin

Pulling a stump without doing a whole lot of digging is going to require some serious power.

I've pulled small shrubs with my Chevy and they give a good fight.

 

[Bignate603]

He's lucky that he didn't have more power, he probably would have destroyed his gears if he had a bigger engine. Differential gears aren't cut to be abused in reverse.