Stump Dissection and Loading into Dump Truck

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Fighting a Monster sized Stump with undersized equipment

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What happens here

With a coordinated effort, the Bobcat 325 mini excavator and the Kubota SVL 65-2 compact track loader systematically break down the large tree stump and its complex root system into manageable pieces. The mini excavator digs and pries, while the skid steer uses its powerful grapple to pull, twist, and tear at the exposed roots. Smaller pieces are manually handled and cleared. Once broken, the large sections of the stump and roots are then loaded into a waiting red dump truck, branded "Dirt Monkey Inc." The truck is strategically positioned to allow the skid steer to lift and deposit the heavy debris directly into its bed. The narrator emphasizes the importance of breaking the stump into smaller, "truck-sized" chunks to avoid the dangerous situation where a single large piece could catch on the truck's tailgate and potentially cause the entire dump truck to flip backward, leading to a "catastrophic failure."

Goal: Break down and remove the tree stump from the site.

Tools and materials

Bobcat 325 Mini Excavator Bobcat — Further breaking down the stump and assisting with loading
Grapple Attachment — Securing and lifting large stump pieces
Red Dump Truck Freightliner — Hauling away the removed tree stump and roots
Tree Stump and Roots N/A — Debris to be removed from the site

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massive roots they didn't plant the tree deep enough and that's when you get all these these surface roots which is you you really don't want that blaine look at this is one big root dude somewhere it's just gonna be one hell of a wall man they're gonna be up a lot higher than the neighbors so what was tim saying we gotta do a radius over here now too on there instead of doing the 90 for the return it'll be a 90 down here it's this corner that because the property goes and then angles oh yeah yeah yep so we can't go straight because we'll hit their property if you go straight from that corner you're coming too far this way yeah they're losing the yard yeah we can't go too far too close to this tree because we're going to be running into a lot of ruts doesn't seem to be the same thing they planted that one too shallow too you see all those surface roots running up there yeah we're gonna start we're going to be hacking roots off of there yeah bringing in a lot of fill it's going to be yeah tim was saying something like 40 40 something trucks you thought it was gonna be like 45. [Music] every year we seem to have a job that we call from hell i remember one year we called it the hole from hell where i was supposed to dig out a basement but then it needed a soil correction and by the time we were done with the soil correction the bottom of the hole was 100 feet across 110 feet the other way across and 38 feet deep to get to the bottom so i could start refilling the hole back up just for a house foundation that was the hole from hell well this is kind of like the stump from hell we got started on what we were hoping would be a stump that we could pop out but found that the roots just kept going you can see one of the main support roots right here as they expose it

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