So my diesel apparently IS a stump puller!

[bellofello]

So this weekend I was doin some work at my friends farm/ranch type thing (more of a house with some horses and chickens I guess). Anyways, the old neighbour came over for a few drinks around noon.

He kept goin on about us havin spend all day sunday taking down this fair sized maple in the front yard that's been dead for a couple years and how much work its gonna take and blah blah blah.

So I told him, "eff that, it wont be that hard... I could pull that out with my truck!" he responded "well I'd bet ya that you couldn't". So it was pretty well on from that point. We kind of chirped each other back and fourth for a bit untill I got fed up with it. I slapped 50 bucks down on the table and said lets do this.

Go out to the tree and start hookin up some slings to the mid section off the tree. Start gettin a little scared because the tree appeared much more solid that I had first thought it was.

Well, I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talkin... 4 tugs later... :fsc1:

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5399/tree1b.jpg

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/7514/tree2y.jpg

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4598/tree3x.jpg

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2286/tree4.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/189/tree5w.jpg

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5792/tree6.jpg

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/5705/tree7.jpg

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4341/tree8.jpg

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/8643/tree9s.jpg


so whadda ya'll think?!

I definitely didn't think it'd come down in the first place, nevermind come down the way it did!

[XLR8N]

Thats pretty cool how it snapped right there.

[bellofello]

yea that's what I thought, I hooked up to it as high as I could. I figured if it was really rotten, I'd snap it off halfway or something. I never thought it would break that clean under ground lmao.

[Macedawg]

i did that with a huge branch at my house that was right over the driveway..the neighbors were standin in their yard watchin me and cheered and clapped when it broke :lol:

[XLR8N]

i did that with a huge branch at my house that was right over the driveway..the neighbors were standin in their yard watchin me and cheered and clapped when it broke :lol:

You did that in the honda?! :crazy:

[Macedawg]

You did that in the honda?! :crazy:

whats the phrase i'm thinking of here..

oh i rememeber..the old "it wouldnt pull a greasy string outta a cat's a$$" :lol:

i'm kidding its pretty quick but has NO torque :looking:

[XLR8N]

whats the phrase i'm thinking of here..

oh i rememeber..the old "it wouldnt pull a greasy string outta a cat's a$$" :lol:

i'm kidding its pretty quick but has NO torque :looking:

Whats the saying i am thinking of? My lug nuts require more TQ than your car produces? :lol:

:cheer:

[bellofello]

hahaha, it's funny cuz it's true... I think. 120 ft/lbs?:rice:

[Macedawg]

for 36mph i'll take the lil torqueless turd for a DD anyday :nana:

:lol:

[XLR8N]

That is true!

[Macedawg]

i was trying to get a svt raptor to race me this morning on the way to work :looking:

[XLR8N]

That would have been a close race, sad but true. :lol:

[bellofello]

this is true. Well if we were both in mud or gravel... I'd win :D

other than that... I'm fvcked... and -5.7 mpg

[fortplainman]

dang i remember when i did this, just with a bearhug size branch we wedged in between the trees and i pulled on it. it busted in half and flew under my truck. thank god it didnt go through my back window.

[crazy4offroad]

Wasnt exactly the stump-pull I thought it was gonna be, but glad you made that neighbor eat his words!

[bellofello]

yea I shoulda titled it tree pull I guess. Well I dunno, kind of a stump pull... cuz it sure aint in the ground any more!

yep wining the bet was the best part, especially cuz I didn't think it was gonna happen, and he's the type of guy that wouldn't make a bet unless it was a sure thing.

[crazy4offroad]

Here's one I pulled with my truck when it sat on 33s...

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9486/stump.jpg

That's a 36" steel door jamb laying to the right of it, to give you some scale to the size. Never underestimate the power of your Bowtie!!!

[bellofello]

oh it wasn't the power I was underestimating! I was more concerned about twisting up the frame on my DD LOL.

Because I tied on to it up high, it was pulling the rears of the truck 3 feet off the ground the second and third yank so I'm told.

[dvldog]

Very nice. I love your truck, looks bad ass.

[bellofello]

thank yah, I like everything except the flares (cops made me install them because it's illegal to have your tires stickin out past the fenders where I live), and that my stacks stick up so far past the roof. Nothin to pout about really tho. I still love her. I'll love her more when she's 7-8 inches taller with some 37" bogger shoes :rocking:

[dvldog]

I actually really like the flares. I'll be putting some on my truck soon when I get some new tires.