Pallet forks for your loader, (Thoughts)?

Instant scrap iron according to osha

 

You'll find many ways to beat gravity with those forks WeldrDave They look good...

 

I have a hole in one of my forks for a trailer ball. I'm not grubbing stumps with them, although I don't think I have enough loader to hurt them even if I was.

 

They don't come around here.

 

Straight lifting isn’t the real problem, it’s the prying. Getting the end of the fork under the root and using the weight of the machine is easiest. There is a lot of leverage used when removing roots and stumps. You need a BIG machine to lift stumps out of the ground. Best practice is to go around the stump and pry the roots out of the ground as deep as you can. Bigger stumps will require you to be put away more to get to the smaller areas of the root. Once you work around the stump, you start working on the center.

 

Good thing!

 

I over bought the frontier set i have, really heavy. Been thinking about taking the core drill to it.

 

how would that help?

 

Look out for any walnut, even small ones or anything else with a healthy tap root.

I seam to remember a smallish, 12" walnut that had a huge crator dug around it until someone could jump in the hole and cut the tap root with a chainsaw. It would just bend from one side of the hole to the other when moved with the machine.

 

It's really thick i could easily put some nascar "speed holes" in, a lot of them and it still would be indestructible. I have never even used the forks it came with. People would think i was compensating for something.

 

I’ve pulled out a few walnuts, and yeah, they have some real tap roots. Ash are hard to get out too.

 

Years ago, when riding ATVs in WV, one of the locals was telling us about how when the gas company wants to run a new pipeline down there they basically pick a line and tell the equipment operators to "go that way" mountains or not...I could see where they had dozed a trail down over the hill, steeper than an ATV could climb...I asked how they got back up once they went over the hill with the dozer.
He said they'd look for a certain type of tree known for a strong and deep taproot, hook the winch cable to it, and down the hill they'd go!
He said they'd pay any operator willing to do it $20/hr...that was obviously back when $20/hr was dang good money!

 

That would be quite the experience. I've definitely wondered how they get some of the power lines and poles where they do while riding in TN. Can't even imagine what they do out west at times.

 

Here is a set that I made a few years ago out of 2x3x1/4" rectangle tubing. My welding skills must not be too bad, they've held up to all my little tractor has been able to give them.

 

QA could have tightened up on the person doing the welding. Some capping and grinder work does a lot for appearance and customer satisfaction. I totally agree everyone has to start somewhere but things don't have to go out the door. Have you picked up anything with it yet?

 

Sure beats a blown out back and hospital bills!