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I figured this out on Saturday. It worked well for a small tire, this one is 16 x 6.5 x 8.

 

Wife comes out and says “Don’t you have ramps for that? “

 

Good god you had me worried there for a while. I thought you were endorsing that clusterfuk.

 

Well it's a done deal. Picked up the $39.99 top link along with a few more bags of corn from TSC this morning. The stump grinder came a little before 2pm this afternoon. My buddy (whose Lucas penetrating oil was a fail) was here and we got grinder mounted. Didn't have to cut the PTO shaft and everything fit fine after moving the top hook on the QH up two notches. Did about 1/3 of an 18" diameter stump just to get a feel for the thing and see it work. Although I couldn't actually see anything while sitting on the tractor. My buddy was my eyes and ears. The camera setup should come tomorrow.. but mail here usually isn't until about 6pm..

 

Just remember on the grinder..

small bites/passes. From the correct side...

On hard woods you only take about an inch at a time.

Soft woods you can take a bigger bite.

It sounds slow. But you will still take out a 2' stump in 30mins or less.

Oh since I have that exact grinder:

If it's bucking & jumping you are going forward too fast.

 

Was trying to proceed slowly, didn't have any bucking/jumping. I'm still getting used to having anything on the back end, and not feeling comfortable with working blind. Looking forward to the camera coming tomorrow..
By "an inch at a time" do you mean an inch over (moving to the left) or an inch deeper?

 

I’ll second that

Darn nice!

 

Took advantage of the rain today and did a bunch of burning. Unfortunately, on the last bucket of debris, my tractor decided to die. Thinking the battery once again dropped below minimum for the electronic ignition and cut off spark. I'm going to mount a solar panel on top to help keep it topped up and one of these days I'll replace the Advance Auto alternator with one that isn't a POS.

 

Yep moved my hook up 1 hole and got some 3/8" clevis pins and if I remember they were about 3". So if I need to move the hook again it's a cinch.
As far as the mail yes mine runs late like 15:00-17:00.
Good morning y'all.

 

Mornin

 

Or not . . .

 

That’s great, but how did you seat them again?
Both my front wheels on my zturn were flat and the bead broken. Tried the strap idea and no go. Took them to a local tire shop, they popped them both on, free of charge.
I didn’t have anything that could provide a burst of air to seat them.

 

AKA it's lost. Don't worry, I'll find it in a piece of equipment when I'm doing a PM.




Actually, that legit happens.... a lot...

 

I used a rachet strap, cinched the center down until the tire was touching the rim. I used a bicycle pump, I don’t have a compressor anymore.

Plan "B" was to pull the valve stem core, spray a few squirts of Cosby sauce and hit it with a fireplace lighter.

 

Some starter fluid and a lighter usually do the trick!
https://youtube.com/shorts/trhU_-C235w?si=GL2jtrjXpQWcqocu

 

Be sure and put air in when you light it, don't ask me how I know that


You don't have to ask, I'll tell you. My brother was pulling my dads trailer (had 3 axles with mobile home tires) and got 3/4 of a mile from the house and one of the tires broke the bead. We tried what we could on the side of the road. Couldn't get it to take air.

I said I have some ether in the truck, I saw a guy do it once (before Youtube days) and it worked so I sprayed it good and lit it. It caught the tire on fire. My dad, my brother, and I were all blowing on it. Finally got it out and I said oh I remember he was putting air in it when he lit it. Worked great the next time

 

I broke a bead on a skidsteer and couldn't get it to pump back up. Carried it to the local tire shop and they put it on the machine with a burst of air. Took em all of 2 minutes........charged me $20

I paid them, it was worth it after fighting it myself with a ratchet strap and hammer.

 

Both. Once you get used to the feel of the contact & slip clutch & how your tractor responds...

It will come to you. It takes practice to get it right. Ive done a couple hundred stumps with mine now & the first time I get back on it after a long spell it still takes me a a few minutes to get the "feel" back for it.

On my tractor: low range at PTO speed (marked on your RPM gauge) all I have to do is ever so slightly touch the forward pedal & it pretty much crawls the right speed.

The side to side yank/jerk is really bad & means you took too much bite from the side or top & its literally hanging on the teeth. This can break some stuff real quick.

An up & down hop usually means you are pulling too hard into it & are more centered.

You can do smaller stuff from the center of the wheel. Bigger stuff you wanna nibble away from the side, working your way across a layer at a time.

Avoid ROCKS at all costs. That's how you get the teeth to last a long time. They don't mind dirt when you are doing roots, but rocks are death to them.

Oh & if you have an observer? Make sure they are on the non exit side of you.

Patience is the key here & you will get great results if you just take your time & learn how it responds on your machine.

No matter how many of these I've done with a tractor the same size & the same grinder...................
It will feel completely different on yours to you.

Its like everything else: find your sweet spot & then go till you are done.

 

I've done a lot of formal recovery training in a previous life with my FJ and we practiced both ways with success. The technique requires you to have the tire on the ground flat and fuel inside the tire also so it draws in the oxygen it needs to burn. I mean, don't put so much ether in so it creates a tire burn situation like we're rioting in Somalia, but you get what I mean lol.
Side note: I use a big CO2 can for the pop out (like a powertank) to seat the bead. Tires imho are a pita all around! That's a good tire shop you have btw. You know up in NoVA we would get charged full price even for a garden tractor tire.