Hybrid_From_Hell Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Suz said yesterday "I HATE that tree in the garden, just for once would you give up your time and just for once help me in the garden and remove that tree, I have a new one I want to put in there " "Er, OK Luv, but I was hoping to get in the workshop this weekend " "Look, just this once OK..... help me get that tree out - then you can go in the workshop " "OK" 10.00 Sue arrived back from the shed, spades, axe, shovel...... Meanwhile I positioned the 90 10.05 Tree 'Sorted' "I'm off in the workshop now then Luv " Suz is speechless I don't know, .........she always goes on about how hard a work this gardening lark is Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeppimp Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Think you should have chosen a stronger anchor point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
najw Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Must be that practise session you had at Slab :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V8 Freak Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Good news was that when you put the 90 back in the garage it warmed it all up a little too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madcowz Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 And good to see you used a strop to protect the tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishbosh Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Naah, Don't believe you Nige. There's no way that a hydraulic winch has the oomph to fell a mighty tree like that. The tell tale is in the second photo, plain to see - the missus got at it with the secateurs whilst you were posing for the camera didn't she.... Of course the other explanation is you simply tied a magnet to the tree and drove off in the 90............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSi110 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Little, ...no, TINY tree. But then I guess the ickle V8 wouldn't struggled with anything larger than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Train Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 That's not a tree, it is barely a sapling! I used my 110 V8 to remove a couple of gateposts a few years ago. The posts were about 8' long with nearly half in the ground. A lot of digging to create a ramp, then build a 'pallet' against it and tie together, then gently pull it over and haul it out. Excuse the poor quality photo. The last tree I pulled down was a laburnam, 15" diameter and 25' high. I did it with my car as it was rotten at the bottom and was free to move a lot. I trimmed off a few of the branches and then used the car to get it rocking and used its own momentum to bring it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gruntus Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 I tractor pulled four Leylandi out of the front garden with the Disco.......... ..........and had to replace the front UJ a couple of weeks later. The question is was it worth it? To see the neighbours faces like the Pikeys were in town? Damn Straight! Cheers G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon W Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Don't laugh, but I have done the same thing on the same sized trunk but this obviously had more established roots as was quite and old bush but I needed to get the root ball and roots out. Just thought I would give it a tug out as the winch wasn't working at the time. I did it in reverse so I could see what was going on. Gave it a couple of goes, but wasn't doing too much, dug it out more repeated, still nothing, dug some more, gave it a few little snatches and then an almighty bang, got out to see what had happened, just thinking it was the shackles and jate rings hitting the chassis as the tension was taken up. Tried again but this time one of the back wheels was on the brick driveway started to spin (very nice rubbery sound). Gave it another go and the trunk snapped. Gave up put stuff away and returned to the road to drive home, hmm no drive without difflock engaged. Yup I had snapped a front shaft by being a bit reckless I should have known really to wait, as it took my mate 5 mins to do with a stump grinder, rather quicker than it took to rebuild my front axle which also had a twisted shaft the otherside. Well they had done 130k and had some abuse so did probably need new ones just the old engine had never had the torque to snap choclate like the new one does. No pictures I am afraid, was rather busy at the time and feeling a little defeated. Lesson learnt spent a little time getting the winch working instead of being a rough arse! Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Yep, I pulled out some big gorse roots with mine a couple of months ago too, much easier than digging them out. Works for fence posts too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiFonics Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 That was the result of removing a shrub in our front garden with my mum supervising the pull Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davie Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 ahh the fun of gardening with landrovers!! Got some pics to upload but it aint working.....can browse through my files, select the one i want, hit open and then upload, wait patiently and then it tells me i didnt select a file to upload - anyone got ideas?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watson Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 i dont have any piccys but we had aload of laylandie to bring down and it was leaning over towards my mums office so i said to dad wait ill get the bobtail out so we put the ranger in the feild with about 50 ft of roap on the front then dad cut half way round the tree and floored it and it came flying of like a gooden landrover gardening is the best way B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardAllen Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 My mate and I pulled out 3 very stubborn stumps from an awkward bit of his garden yesterday. We used the 90 mostly as a fixed point, and pulled them out using the hi-lift as a winch and some strops fixed to the tow ball and much digging and root cutting. At one point the hi-lift was pulling the chocked, braked, in-gear 90 along the lane. Once each stump was close to free I then just drove away with it. It would be good to know how much pull we were exerting with the hi-lift. The pin shears at 7000lbs, and we did not manage that, so I reckon you need to be pretty strong to do so using it as a winch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white90 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I once winched a prized plant pot up a slope at the last house wheel barrow jammed, pot fell, smashed, chopped new plasma rope Val very unhappy with busted pot £100 worth me even more miserable with chopped plasma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Sparkes Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 ahh the fun of gardening with landrovers!!Got some pics to upload but it aint working.....can browse through my files, select the one i want, hit open and then upload, wait patiently and then it tells me i didnt select a file to upload - anyone got ideas?? I've had that problem before, which Browser are you using? (Make and version). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davie Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I've had that problem before, which Browser are you using? (Make and version). its internet explorer 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco tony Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 gardening use number 1002 Later tried having the Mrs drive it in low range but still couldn't keep up with the cheap hedge trimmer! Still better than a step ladder though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco tony Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 I've had that problem before, which Browser are you using? (Make and version). reduce your picture size using image resizer. Too many pixels and it wont work, try 600 x 800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Sparkes Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 ... which Browser are you using? (Make and version).its internet explorer 7 reduce your picture size using image resizer. Too many pixels and it wont work, try 600 x 800 IE7 should not cause a problem. Disco Tony has a point, what size was your file, and what sort of file was it (jpg, gif, etc)? Remember a single file has a maximum size of 1.95MB. To be fair, I'd expect you to get a specific warning if the file was too big, or of a type that isn't allowed, but the obvious possibilities have to be crosssed off. HTH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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