Ideas please on pulling this monster over!

[Al Cormack]

Photos can be deceiving. That back limb is about 2ft in dia and around 40ft long. With the headstones underneath it would take a day just to rig that down!

The trunk is around 5ft in dia.

 

Are there any matadors still around?

[Marc Lewis]

Has your RB a winch? If so, I would have thought it would pull that over. If not, a decent size tirfor and a few wedges. Pictures can be deceiving though.

[aspenarb]

Which also leads to the question... Who has a winch tractor near guildford?!?!

 

 

Da Da

 

[Al Cormack]

Told ya Jonny! Lol

[Will Heal]

Da Da

 

 

 

Nice tractor!

 

Butlers at Newbury had a fordson with a winch when I work there 3 years ago but I have pulled trees that big over with a tirfor before no problem as long as you have a good anchor

 

 

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[Jonny Burch]

Haha! You were right Al!

 

Bob, you shall be getting a phone call later!

[silky fox]

Don't forget pictures J.B:)

[Matthew Storrs]

Tirfor should do that fine- you could always back it It up with your RB too.

[difflock]

A tip from the Ag side, Dad and his brother pulled over some massive Ash trees when I was a boy, I remember measuring some of the stumps at 3' across.

With a DB 990 or indeed a Universal 540, both light tractors.

BUT

Hitch a trailer on the back, loaded with 3 to 5 tonne of aggregate, connect the wire rope to the back of the trailer, pick the lowest gear in the gear box and GO!

The weight of the trailer both gives the tractor wheel added traction AND prevents the rope pull from lifting the back end.

Akinda "counter-intuitive" but logical.

cheers

M

PS

That tree does not look like any kind of monster to my eye.

Not with 330HP tractors weighing 8 or 9 tonne out there, never mind the potential of a ballast trailer.

Or even a 200/250HP one with weights front and rear thereon.

Cheers

M

[ecotreecare]

Not that big- 20t excavator will do it easy