So my brother calls me up and says, "I don't have time to dig a stump out , do you think you can rip it out with your truck". I think he was watching to much TV. Pulling out stumps on decent sized trees is not easily done, not to mention it can wreak havoc on your truck.
But I decided to give it a look. The tree stump was about a foot across. It was a live swamp maple that was getting in the way. My brother and I dug out around it for a bit, till some of the major roots were showing. We cut the roots so that we cut shove the chain under the root base. I had enough chain to allow me to stay on pavement. I knew the way we had the chain on the stump it wasn't going to come off, so I rigged the chain in such a way that it was pulling equal on both tow hooks.

I figured I'd let the weight of the truck yank it out. Give it some gas and let off before the chain pulls taunt. Well I tried that a few times, a bone jaring experience to say the least. That mother stumper barely budged. So I dug a little more then repeated the fore mentioned procedure. It started to get loose after that. So I shifted into the creeper gears and yanked that mother out.

I not going to do that again! When you see that Chevy commercial with the dually yanking out a monster tree, don't believe it. It's not easy to do, not easy on your truck and not easy on you. Just get a stinking stump grinder!

 

If you don't mind mud, soak the stump and surrounding area, after you have dug in and cut the main roots, get as much water in there as you can, and the process is considerably easier. The bigger the stump, the more water.
I have done it that way after watching a guy with a GM pull a large stump out of my driveway some time ago..

Theo

 

I had a monster stump 54 inches across left from a tree I cut up, that was already out of the ground because the tree tipped over. With my 1971 390 I was able to flip it almost all the way back over, but, not quite. I had cut any big remaining roots I could see.

So, I had my boss get his DRW 4x4 diesel Dodge to pull it out with a big logging chain. When I saw the chain links start to stretch we stopped. I sucked it up and rented a grinder instead. Some things can not be pulled out without heavy equipment, like a dozer. This was not Chevy C3500 stuff for sure ;-D

 

I've done it a few times, I've pulled trees and other stuff out. After everything is watered down and everything it's not so bad.

 

hey now that you got the stump out, why don't you put it back in, and videotape yourself pullin it out.

what? Chevy does it

 

i watched my neighboors dad almost kill himself pulling a stump out with his chebby. chain snapped, and shattered the windshield right in front of his face, he had the chain on his tow hooks and was pulling in reverse.

that was @ 4 years ago, last summer i started my tree+ stump removal service so now i own a stump grinder, i think thats the safer easier way to go. besides, if you pull the sump out you still have a stump to deal with, with the grinder you just have wood chips to shovel.

 

Pulling stumps and small trees with a pickup is just not the way to go. After watching a overgrown cedar bush mock my new neighbor's F250 Diesel I drove over on my Farmall 350 (all of 39 hp) and showed him how to pull it. Never had the tractor above a fast idle and it pulled it out no problem. A pickup just can't get the weight transfer and traction.

 

Pulling stumps and small trees with a pickup is just not the way to go. After watching a overgrown cedar bush mock my new neighbor's F250 Diesel I drove over on my Farmall 350 (all of 39 hp) and showed him how to pull it. Never had the tractor above a fast idle and it pulled it out no problem. A pickup just can't get the weight transfer and traction.

 

How tall is the stump? every time I have seen it done it still had about 3 feet left stickin up. put the chain around the top and pull...keep the chain taught....and good luck?

 

has anyone considered burning the stump down...saw a neighbor do that once on a smaller sized tree.

 

Hmmmanyone have some extra marshmallows.

 

Friend of mine had a 1985 suburan with a 350 auto and 4.10s. That thing could pull out anything without breaking a sweat.

Mike

 

Weight. Back heavy.

 

My dads work truck (big ole 2003 F550 DRW) had all 4 back tires smokin trying to pull up a bush. Nothing big, it was just a bush. Mind you, this truck weighs about 13000 lbs with work bed, tools, and a crane. We had to dig out the roots and soak it with water before it even budged.

 

When I was a kid I remember my dad trying to remove a full grown tree stump from our yard with his new 85 F150 2wd and V8. They dug around the roots and axed most of them loose. Then he yanked and yanked that chain with his truck and it did not move. They tried watering it too, but it did not budge. Eventually they used some kind of explosive. Don't know if it was dynamite, but it went BOOM and in a split second that stump was sitting on the ground just up out of it's hole. Kinda neat getting to witness something like that. We lived out in the woods, so no one hassled us on the noise.

The only stump I've gotten to pull is a 2inch sapling from next to my driveway. I wanted to get rid of it before it tore up the concrete. It didn't need chains and my truck, but it was the middle of summer and I was tired so I let my truck do the work.