#60 Digging Stumps, Operator View!

[@ronsellew5696]

I really enjoyed this video, especially what your seeing from the cab as you operate it!

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Ron Sellew, glad you like it

[@jaker2539]

Thanks for the video. Watched to learn how to pull stumps with a rental mini this weekend. Enjoy your videos!

[@nanomaine]

That was fun, thanks for taking us along!

[@106pricey]

Thanks for the great video!!! Ripping out stumps on my property is in the works for me this spring. I also love the firewood videos. Keep up the good work!!!

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Thanks! Where you from?

[@106pricey]

Outdoors With The Morgans. I am from Northeast PA.

[@SunTzu907]

About to spend a couple of weeks clearing some land on our homestead with an excavator. Thanks for taking the time to make this tutorial, very helpful for a nubee like me! Always enjoy your videos!

[@michaeldougfir9807]

Howdy! I just happened upon this video. I had no idea you did this. Ordinarily, in good forestry, at least in the West, we keep stump height at a foot or less. But I see what you were doing here. Very practical. Good footage & narration. Thanks.

[@ricksaylor5129]

Great video Mike! I enjoyed the commentary and the video from the operator view.

[@mtpurkey]

Just found your channel Mike. Most helpful because I’m trying to buy some land in Virginia and will be trying to clear some of it myself for a building site. Thanks.

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Good luck with the purchase, enjoy the entire process

[@LongBinh70]

Very nice. A good tutorial for my "new" E35. You may think the machine will break down over a fire. All pilots swear their planes make strange noises when they're flying over large bodies of water! 🤤

[@pinrestore]

This is great! It's like an advanced class in excavator operation. I have 20 acres I want to clean up and this is just what I needed to know.

[@RaymondBarrett]

Loved how you explained every step! So helpful thanks!

[@timkd5vmv583]

You make it look easy. Great video as always.

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Tim KD5VMV, Thanks

[@seanworkman431]

You handle a machine like an artist with a brush Mike

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Thanks Sean, I have had some seat time

[@reillyhosking3161]

No he doesn’t

[@seanworkman431]

Fuck you too!

[@wyattearp6883]

Your video's are coming together quite nicely. You've made great strides in a short period of time. I now put you in the category " I can't for his next video to come out." Keep up the good work!

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Thank you sir, I like being in that category

[@matthewsims359]

I liked that view from the operators station. Kinda felt like i was in the cab.

[@russellbowman8051]

Nice Work!! 👊

[@peterlevy1682]

Watching all your videos. Great work. Wollongong Australia

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Thanks Peter, Lots of guys from Australia comment here

[@roybracy5074]

great video one of your best yet great to see from operators view also learned something with a burn pit it's all contained better in way to burning on surface.keep up good videos

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Thanks Roy!

[@chipwoods8323]

Good lesson, Thanks!

[@tommyordoyne7461]

Thanks for showing your stump removal techniques. Gotta have the thumb. Did you also use a landscape rake later on?

[@WILSON.1]

Terrific video and demonstration. I've been trying to figure out which machine to rent (or buy) for the same purpose. I found a rental place near me that has a Bobcat with a tree spade attachment. I was originally going to rent a backhoe. Then I thought a mini excavator might be best. I have roughly 100 stumps to take out which are all in the 10" range.

[@stevied8696]

GOOD WORK! Have a friend hydrologic hose sprung a leak in a skid steer bobcat over burn pile. Reversed out but trapped in side had to exit through the fire...recived horrible Burns several surgeries and skin grafts. Not sure if a in cab fire extinguisher would have helped

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Wow, Thats horrible

[@Jim-fj9ul]

I have recently found your channel and I find your videos very interesting so of course I subscribed. My needs and tasks are similar to yours but I have less acreage. You mention, and have shown us, your burn pile but you have not discussed how you start it and maintain it. At least not that I have seen so far. I watched your video "Never Use Gas on a Brush Pile" but it was small stuff. I have a problem keeping my stumps and log lit. Would you please do a video on the end to end process of burning larger wood? Dry vs. wet etc. Thanks for all the interesting videos.

[@InvestingWisely]

Looks like fun!

[@jeffclaus4422]

That's sweet. I wanna try!!

[@daveknowshow]

that makes fast work of it. I know you said it was 400 for the weekend did that include delivery and pick up of the machine? did it include unlimited hours on the machine hour meter?

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

daveknowshow, all included, delivery, pickup, and 16 hours I believe

[@daveknowshow]

thats not bad.

[@MikeCris]

Mike, why do you dig a pit rather than just burning everything on the surface? Does the pit help keep the fire hot?

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

mbcris, several reasons. It keeps it contained, works like a furnace as well and you can just keep packing it in. Plus when its really burning you can continue to feed it which would be hard if it was all above ground. Lastly it doesn't get all spread out with the ends no burning. Sometimes when you burn on the surface the middle just burns to the ground and you have to keep pushing the sides in

[@havihub]

What's the biggest stump you can dig out with that machine?

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

john, I will have one more video in this series coming out in a day or two and you will see.

[@Z-Bart]

Mike, I'll be doing this on Sunday. GREAT tip on using an existing stump to knock off the dirt. Of the three (or more) moves...which has the most power? The bucket curl, the main boom, or the secondary (jib) boom?

[@donhughes3057]

great vido

[@1rustytree]

Good tips!

[@Platinumwoodworking]

Mike! I'm glad I came a cross your channel! Thanks for the videos. I am in the same scenario as yourself so I hope ya don't mind any questions I shoot at ya. I have 20 ac in NH and have a bunch of stumps that need to be removed and land graded. How do you think that mini would handle a bigger stump? Maybe 20-24"

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Yes it would just take some time, Its almost worth it to grind the big stumps then dig whats left of the roots

[@Platinumwoodworking]

Outdoors With The Morgans Thanks Mike! Appreciate it! Nice piece of property you got!!

[@havihub]

How much does one of them cost for the weekend? I feel like I need to get one now... thanks for that...

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

john, anywhere from 400 to 600

[@scotthessey2706]

Mike, new subscriber enjoying your videos. One comment, you said you worry about machine " breaking down over fire pit ". 25 yrs service with Nashville Fire Department, I've extinguished several " machine " fires by burn pits. We forget even diesel ( compression ) engines require Oxygen. You run a piece of equipment into a good fire pit down wind, and play for a minute, in some decent smoke,. then it stalls. Then all the grease seeps from grease fittings that minor hydraulic leak becomes major problem... You're still in smoke and oxygen poor environment so it won't re- start. You end up with a 100K bonfire with its own starter fluid !! Push and play upwind, when ever possible. Just something to consider, we do exactly what you did with our equipment.. Get in...Get out

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Great Advice

[@randystevens8117]

I enjoyed the video Mike. How much time did it take you to spend in it to get to an efficient stage? I have thought about renting a unit to do some work around our place. I ended up having a contractor doing the work knowing that he could have do it in less time. Now I have another project to do and I’m thinking about renting again.

[@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans]

Randy Stevens, its hard to say. Over the years I have run lots of equipment. Once you get to the point that the machine just does what you want without you even thinking about it... thats when your onto it. Some people ot only takes a few hours, others never get it.

[@Platinumwoodworking]

Hey Mike! I was messing around over a fire a few weeks ago for the first time....do you get nervous of the hydraulic lines or anything if its real hot? Keep the videos coming!

[@regsparkes6507]

Man, this soil is dry! I suspect as the soil was so dry ad 'sandy' that it made it a tad easier to haul out these stumps too. I have a tip here for some viewers, ( haha) don't watch this while sitting in a swivel office chair. I couldn't sit in one place, as I was mentally rotating with the excavator. ( Old habits die hard!)

[@stereolababy]

you can push the stumps too not just pull

[@OttoMatieque]

get some goats - they will eat those stumps

[@johnhansen189]

I know this a 5 year old video, but Im new to your chanel and I intent to go through all of them. This one is the first (and hopefully the last) I dislike. I just hate when youtubers film from inside the excavator or whatever - it is shaky and makes me feel seasick and anoyed (also when you wear the camera on your head). And another thing: If I find your videos interesting, entertaining and/or informative - surely I will subscribe (I have), so please stop begging me to in every single video. Thank you