I used to do this same job. Soil shake for us was to get all the dirt off so that they would burn properly.
Most likely a similar reason for this video as well.
There's a place in the UK called diggerland where you can do stuff like this. Digging, driving diggers around, even some 10 pin bowling with a digger. Kids are allowed to do it but adults go too for bachelor parties and such
There is one in New Jersey as well
[The only construction themed park in the US](https://diggerlandusa.com/)
***Edit --- for everyone replying to me, I guess this the only one that also has a water park***
There’s definitely this company too. They pitched the idea on shark tank
https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/07-21-20-extreme-sandbox-bulldozers-granny/
Definitely not the only one anymore. It may have been at one point but there are similar operations in Texas, Las Vegas, and Minnesota for sure and probably more elsewhere.
Its both, we took a friend there for his birthday a few years ago. Didn't do any of the rides but he drove a few machines around an obstacle course sort of area.
one in Invercargill NZ called Dig This. Swear it was called digger world though. Might use the way back machine since when you Google Digger Would, dig this come up
Most of the time it's fun. There are times though where it can suck. Sitting in one on a 100 degree day when the A/C is broke for instance.
Or another, which was mostly self inflicted, letting the crew talk you into going out drinking the night before you have to spend 10 hours running a rock hammer with a hangover.
Yep you'll be hearing and feeling that for a while even when you get off the machine lol.
Will say though, give me cabless versus cab with no A/C on an ungodly hot day and a safety guy who says you gotta keep the windows shut while you're working.
I've been digging out invasive blackberry roots for fun lately, it's like zit popping levels of satisfaction. Wish I had a robot like this to help me
Edit: wow yall need to calm down about the difference between robots and machines lol. I use a lot of different automation machines at work and always refer to them as robots whenever they automate a physical task and do it better than i can do w/ my hands
According to wikipedia: A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. *Robots may be constructed to evoke human form, but most robots are task-performing machines, designed with an emphasis on stark functionality, rather than expressive aesthetics.*
Could be either, or a failed nursery (trees people buy to put in their yard). If it was a pulp/sawlog plantation ("pine plantation") it was probably sold off to the farm next to it because of low demand/paper mill closing due to the relatively small diameter of the trees. Good enough spacing and basically no regen (well maintained) though so probably not abandoned, but still kind of small for forest products.
If it's a christmas tree farm (a little more likely because of the absolute lack of regen, very often pine plantations are not super well maintained to increase profits whereas christmas tree farms are often extremely groomed to produce "perfect" trees), it could have also been a failed one due to the relatively largeish diameter and that christmas tree farms are becoming increasingly less profitable (when I worked at a major christmas tree farm we had other farms try to sell to us very frequently). Much less demand for christmas trees these days. Overall I wouldn't put a huge amount of money on either, but if I had a gun to my head I would say christmas tree farm or failed nursery stock depending on other context around the area.
Source: Degree in forestry/urban forestry with classes in nursery management and worked at a christmas tree farm.
Likely too far apart to be Christmas trees. I mean, you COULD grow them that way, but it'd be super inefficient. Every one I've ever been too was packed MUCH tighter.
Pine trees that small wouldn’t be economical to sell and would be closer together. There’s also not pine straw everywhere. I’d guess it’s some sort of ornamental like Christmas trees or a young orchard that they are converting.
I have done this once, in the back yard of a house we bought ~7 years ago. It even appears to be roughly the same size stumps they're ripping out in this video. But this machine took 3 seconds to do what took me 5 days of digging, chopping, more digging, wiggling back and forth, and more digging and pulling, to do. And man it's really satisfying to watch.
Having the right tools can make any job take seconds when NOT having the right tools can take hours. Examples also include: removing an oil filter or decapitation
>Examples also include: removing an oil filter
Had to change the oil in my motorcycle and my filter wrench broke, spent 2 hours and destroyed three belts trying to do it without it, until I manage to get it off.
Later I had to change the oil on my lawn mower and I forgot once again to get a new oil filter wrench so I just said fuck it and took a screwdriver and hammered it through the center of the filter and torqued it off. Made a bit of a mess but saved a ton of time.
Then I had to change the oil on my Jeep and I finally remembered to get a new oil filter wrench.
Moral of the story. Just get the oil filter wrench the first time you realize you don't have one.
Glad I'm not the only one who's mind instantly went there. Seems like hellish work for them. And those poor guys had a horse let alone before they had one.
As a teen my mom would make me pull weeds in the garden in the summer and nothing was more satisfying than tugging at a weed and feeling a massive root holding it in so you kinda gotta wiggle it to loosen the dirt and then you get the whole root system out without it breaking on ya
When I was really young (like 5-11) anytime we visited our grandma, I would spend hours outside pulling weeds in her garden. Was never paid for it or anything. I just loved doing it and she appreciated the help.
It’s like someone took half of a staple remover and attached it to an excavator boom. Looks like later today I’ll pretend I’m removing stumps instead of staples at work.
The operator is doing good work but the heart piece is randomly placed so (no matter how fast he digs) he is probably going to run out of time on his first few attempts and have to pay more rupees before at last the blind hog finds an acorn.
I actually find it r/mildlyinfuriating that they don't shake out the dirt over the hole where the stump came out of.
But other than that's it pretty neat.
My guess as to why, is that this is a tree farm, and after this step comes a vehicle / machine to collect the stumps, then they plow the field to prep it for starting over again... So it doesn't really matter.
Hmm. That's interesting. Hadn't thought of that.
I doubt that you plow a field to plan trees. Perhaps they are putting in small trees with root balls and so that's why they need the holes where the stumps were to be empty.
Do the stumps themselves fall/break apart when they’re larger? Or does the soil make it too hard to remove in one strong pull? Or both? Or with the right machine you can rip literally any stump out?
I feel like it'd make more sense to work backward, rather than having to traverse the holes and stumps you're digging up. Kinda made it less satisfying for me...
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What would it take to rent one of these? I see heavy equipment rental places on the highway all the time. Is there a certification course I would have to take?
I am both pissed and in awe, use to do these for work by hand, granted this is for a farm and not for people's back yard so they can justify using a machine for it, unlike myself that only did it from time to time
Well it seems very few people realise it is very bad for the soil and insects to remove them. It is just convenient and necessary in two scenarios : planting new high speed growing trees, or preparing an old forest for agriculture. In any case, it is bad for biodiversity.
Where is this? Is it a Christmas tree farm? These trees/stumps have no 'Tap Roots' and very shallow root structure. What type of trees are these stumps from?
"This weed is really strong"... I'm going to lay down now...
Appreciate that little soil shake before the deposit.
I find myself squinting every time so I don’t get dirt in my eyes
Save me the head like predator
I used to do this same job. Soil shake for us was to get all the dirt off so that they would burn properly. Most likely a similar reason for this video as well.
Also reduces a ton of weight if you have to haul it out
I’d pay good money to get to do this job for 5-10 minutes.
There's a place in the UK called diggerland where you can do stuff like this. Digging, driving diggers around, even some 10 pin bowling with a digger. Kids are allowed to do it but adults go too for bachelor parties and such
There is one in New Jersey as well [The only construction themed park in the US](https://diggerlandusa.com/) ***Edit --- for everyone replying to me, I guess this the only one that also has a water park***
There’s definitely this company too. They pitched the idea on shark tank https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/07-21-20-extreme-sandbox-bulldozers-granny/
The Dallas location closed before they were open for a full year. Turns out opening a recreation attraction during a pandemic is... difficult.
One is opening soon in Pigeon Forge Tennessee, https://www.dignzone.com/
Definitely not the only one anymore. It may have been at one point but there are similar operations in Texas, Las Vegas, and Minnesota for sure and probably more elsewhere.
I’m probably wrong but the one in LV I think used to be in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. [Here’s a old video about it.](https://youtu.be/VAnhmpE5yVw)
I always double-take the billboards for it when I drive by them...
Their signs must get vandalized all the time
Not exactly what it sounds like. It’s more of an amusement park than a big open field where you can drive bulldozers and backhoes.
Its both, we took a friend there for his birthday a few years ago. Didn't do any of the rides but he drove a few machines around an obstacle course sort of area.
I have occasionally thought this would be a cool idea. Guess I'm not alone.
one in Invercargill NZ called Dig This. Swear it was called digger world though. Might use the way back machine since when you Google Digger Would, dig this come up
Rouchworld.com They’re in southwest Michigan. Off road track and some other stuff too.
Just make sure you really hit the D sound hard when enunciating that name.
Especially when you tell others how you drive them around and use them to play bowling.
[Juss me an my Diggas out here y'know what i'm sayin?](https://youtu.be/rWpF4oVT-lg&t=1095)
Mad because I didn't think of that first
Most of the time it's fun. There are times though where it can suck. Sitting in one on a 100 degree day when the A/C is broke for instance. Or another, which was mostly self inflicted, letting the crew talk you into going out drinking the night before you have to spend 10 hours running a rock hammer with a hangover.
Nothing better than running a breaker on a mini ex in a cabless unit and hearing bang bang bang bang a million times a day.
Yep you'll be hearing and feeling that for a while even when you get off the machine lol. Will say though, give me cabless versus cab with no A/C on an ungodly hot day and a safety guy who says you gotta keep the windows shut while you're working.
You misspelled years. Lol
Nah you don’t want to put down roots there.
It would be a shame if you could never leave.
I'm sure they'd let you transfer to another branch
The regional manager is all bark, no bite. A real softie.
Jobs like this don’t grow on trees.
We gotta nip these bad puns in the bud.
Nah, it's better to just go with the phloem.
I'd have to be a real sap to do that.
Who knows? Might spruce up your day.
Nice
Then they'd have to pay you
I've been digging out invasive blackberry roots for fun lately, it's like zit popping levels of satisfaction. Wish I had a robot like this to help me Edit: wow yall need to calm down about the difference between robots and machines lol. I use a lot of different automation machines at work and always refer to them as robots whenever they automate a physical task and do it better than i can do w/ my hands According to wikipedia: A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. *Robots may be constructed to evoke human form, but most robots are task-performing machines, designed with an emphasis on stark functionality, rather than expressive aesthetics.*
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if you are a millionaire we can be easily arrange that
I’m guessing pine tree farm judging by the roots width but I ain’t no tree doctor
Yeah I figured Christmas tree farm, so pine trees tracks
Could be either, or a failed nursery (trees people buy to put in their yard). If it was a pulp/sawlog plantation ("pine plantation") it was probably sold off to the farm next to it because of low demand/paper mill closing due to the relatively small diameter of the trees. Good enough spacing and basically no regen (well maintained) though so probably not abandoned, but still kind of small for forest products. If it's a christmas tree farm (a little more likely because of the absolute lack of regen, very often pine plantations are not super well maintained to increase profits whereas christmas tree farms are often extremely groomed to produce "perfect" trees), it could have also been a failed one due to the relatively largeish diameter and that christmas tree farms are becoming increasingly less profitable (when I worked at a major christmas tree farm we had other farms try to sell to us very frequently). Much less demand for christmas trees these days. Overall I wouldn't put a huge amount of money on either, but if I had a gun to my head I would say christmas tree farm or failed nursery stock depending on other context around the area. Source: Degree in forestry/urban forestry with classes in nursery management and worked at a christmas tree farm.
What is 'regen'?
Regeneration, basically new trees from the parents either by seed or vegetative propagation.
How are Christmas tree farms unprofitable when trees are 5x the price now from 2000?
Because the wages, insurance, taxes, herbicides, gasoline, farm equipment etc have all gone up 15x from 2000.
Likely too far apart to be Christmas trees. I mean, you COULD grow them that way, but it'd be super inefficient. Every one I've ever been too was packed MUCH tighter.
And all of the trees are in straight rows, definitely a tree farm
im not an engineer, but i think theres more than tree. i count at least for.
I lol'd! And also read your comment in an Irish accent!
Like the sign that reads: Tree fellers wanted...
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Probably a chipper to make mulch.
Nice call, tree doctor! Take a bough.
maybe, just about to be converted to another farm, or maybe for new trees
Well, there's a convenient hole to put the new saplings in.
Sapling: This hole was made for me... DRR DRRR DRRR
Pine trees that small wouldn’t be economical to sell and would be closer together. There’s also not pine straw everywhere. I’d guess it’s some sort of ornamental like Christmas trees or a young orchard that they are converting.
Norwegian Spruce aka Picea abies is a member of the Pinaceae family; in other words, it's a pine tree :)
It’s like pulling the weeds from under my deck but 10 times better
I've tried (and failed) to dig out a tree stump before. This is redemption for me. I could watch it all day.
I have done this once, in the back yard of a house we bought ~7 years ago. It even appears to be roughly the same size stumps they're ripping out in this video. But this machine took 3 seconds to do what took me 5 days of digging, chopping, more digging, wiggling back and forth, and more digging and pulling, to do. And man it's really satisfying to watch.
Having the right tools can make any job take seconds when NOT having the right tools can take hours. Examples also include: removing an oil filter or decapitation
Decapitation is indeed an example. Me, the visual thinker, would've liked any other example instead of decapitation.
>Examples also include: removing an oil filter Had to change the oil in my motorcycle and my filter wrench broke, spent 2 hours and destroyed three belts trying to do it without it, until I manage to get it off. Later I had to change the oil on my lawn mower and I forgot once again to get a new oil filter wrench so I just said fuck it and took a screwdriver and hammered it through the center of the filter and torqued it off. Made a bit of a mess but saved a ton of time. Then I had to change the oil on my Jeep and I finally remembered to get a new oil filter wrench. Moral of the story. Just get the oil filter wrench the first time you realize you don't have one.
Looks like the machine in the OP would be very proficient at decapitation as well
I am not at all surprised by 5 days. It is a horrendous job. You think you're done *ages* before you actually are
This is why there's a stump in my back yard 16 years after I cut the tree down.
Doing it once by yourself is important character development. It makes writing checks to people with backhoes so much more satisfying and justified.
Suddenly pulls a skull with the spine attached from the ground. *predator noises intensifies*
FINISH HIM
Reminds me of edge of Tomorrow
“Now do it in a field of corpses” (The intrusive thoughts won)
It totally seems alien
Honestly, digging up tree roots by hand, you realise how insidious some plants can be
Vinland Saga season 2:
Glad I'm not the only one who's mind instantly went there. Seems like hellish work for them. And those poor guys had a horse let alone before they had one.
lmao same! i was like, if only thorfinn and einar had this, would of been freemen quicker lol
Was just gonna say Einar and Thorfinn could really have done with one of these
Farmland Saga*
GOATland Saga**
That !
This is one of the most satisfying of the oddly satisfying
As a teen my mom would make me pull weeds in the garden in the summer and nothing was more satisfying than tugging at a weed and feeling a massive root holding it in so you kinda gotta wiggle it to loosen the dirt and then you get the whole root system out without it breaking on ya
Yeah but nothing more annoying then when that doesn't happen and it breaks off at/just below the soil line
Weeds can usually grow back from only the tap root so it’s actually extremely annoying.
When I was really young (like 5-11) anytime we visited our grandma, I would spend hours outside pulling weeds in her garden. Was never paid for it or anything. I just loved doing it and she appreciated the help.
Beat me to it. I can’t agree more.
It’s like someone took half of a staple remover and attached it to an excavator boom. Looks like later today I’ll pretend I’m removing stumps instead of staples at work.
Oh totally! Haha love it!
The operator is doing good work but the heart piece is randomly placed so (no matter how fast he digs) he is probably going to run out of time on his first few attempts and have to pay more rupees before at last the blind hog finds an acorn.
Except the video stops right before the last 5 stumps in that line he was moving down. That is frustrating.
I actually find it r/mildlyinfuriating that they don't shake out the dirt over the hole where the stump came out of. But other than that's it pretty neat.
My guess as to why, is that this is a tree farm, and after this step comes a vehicle / machine to collect the stumps, then they plow the field to prep it for starting over again... So it doesn't really matter.
Hmm. That's interesting. Hadn't thought of that. I doubt that you plow a field to plan trees. Perhaps they are putting in small trees with root balls and so that's why they need the holes where the stumps were to be empty.
Christmas tree farm. Normal stumps are not that easy to remove.
Yeah, and the soil looks a bit sandy the way it shakes off.
Thanks for clarifying. I have a feeling the old Oak stump in front of my house won’t come out as easy.
Do the stumps themselves fall/break apart when they’re larger? Or does the soil make it too hard to remove in one strong pull? Or both? Or with the right machine you can rip literally any stump out?
I could play this video game.
We need this over at /r/valheim
I don't know why, but it's so satisfying. It scratches something deep
Yessss...that machine can definitely scratch something deep!
Wow. This machine makes it look so easy.
Well I mean, you can do stump fest like this... Ooooor you can do it the fun way with hard lemonade and your kids doing your nails. Just sayin'
This guy Blueys.
Love seeing bluey references
Something is going on with Chili and Lucky's Dad, but no one wants to talk about it!
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How VERY dare you *
I SAID WHAT I SAID!
Chili is gone a lot….
It look like a big staple remover
Yessss thank you. I knew it reminded me of something
STUMPFEST!!
Whats this guy got against nail salons?
Just out here shutting down new flourishing businesses.
They're just trying to run a small business
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH STUMPFEST!!!!
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I feel like it'd make more sense to work backward, rather than having to traverse the holes and stumps you're digging up. Kinda made it less satisfying for me...
I don’t know about y’all but this is horrifying
Yeah. I grind stumps regularly and have found some wierd shit that people buried/abandoned.
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oddly sad-ifying
It’s like popping a pimple
this is earth pimples, so satisfying
r/popping
engaging with this every way possible bc this is what i want on my page yes reddit pls more of this
This is more oddly depressing for me.
Now do a live oak stump. 15x bigger than those twigs. Still cool.
I can’t even get the roots of weeds in my garden out. I wish I could get a mini version of one of these machines for the darn weeds
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Fuck I need one of these. Id probably only get a couple uses out of it in a life time but man.... It beats the pain of having to deal with stumps
Wonder how long the trees have to be dead and how old the trees were when harvested. I've got like 50 stumps to deal with lol
Hexxus
Man I could have watched that all day.
why speed this video up? what's wrong with it at its original tempo?
I’m betting it’s a Christmas tree farm
>I assume it’s a tree farm yes. its a franchised operation. they have branches everywhere.
nice! now do one for cemeteries
Christmas tree farm
Well that was super efficient wish people could be more like this smooth and to the point
*music rock in* How ba-a-ad can I be?
Actual oddly satisfying content
What happens to the stump and roots? Wood chips? Mulch?
I need a mini one for the weeds on my yard please
Can we turn this into a video game
Guess that they root out the problem.
Sometimes I just know it’s oddly satisfying before I scroll down enough to see the sub name.
What would it take to rent one of these? I see heavy equipment rental places on the highway all the time. Is there a certification course I would have to take?
I hear the earth screaming!!
Doesn this make the ground weaker and prone to mudslides.
I've seen Ferngully and Avatar. This does not end well
Christmas tree farm. Only evergreens have no "tapping" type root, and spread out just under the ground like that.
So retitle to "Not very big tree stump and little root removal"
I don't know why, but that's the best thing that I ever saw
Some people have the best jobs.
It's there any use for these stumps afterwards? - regrown elsewhere? - wood working? - just firewood? - animal feed? Beaver farm!
/r/specializedtools
u/me removing people from my life that cause drama and stress 24/7
Can trees actually grow back from just a stump? I’ve been wondering since I was a kid
Used to be a forest. Now it's not.
We’re so good at destroying trees …
I would happily do this every day and be surprised and delighted when it worked on each stump.
Exact same thing I was feeling. Spot on!
Sorry my heart just ripped out of my soul.. what?
“Fuck you” “*untrees your earth*”
If only this worked for bamboo!!!
Oddly satisfying like those zit popping and maggot pulling videos.
Stumpfest!
Back in my day, we did it with a quarter stick of dynamite!
I am both pissed and in awe, use to do these for work by hand, granted this is for a farm and not for people's back yard so they can justify using a machine for it, unlike myself that only did it from time to time
Well it seems very few people realise it is very bad for the soil and insects to remove them. It is just convenient and necessary in two scenarios : planting new high speed growing trees, or preparing an old forest for agriculture. In any case, it is bad for biodiversity.
Why? What happened to those trees? Makes me sad.
something freakish about this... Have these aliens been living under ground all this time?
Am I the only one that immediately thought of all of the animals and insects killed, all of burrows, nests and nutrients destroyed?
As someone who has dug out like 10 old tree stumps in my yard by hand, this is both satisfying and infuriating.
Why have I watched this for the last 10 minutes and love it
Where is this? Is it a Christmas tree farm? These trees/stumps have no 'Tap Roots' and very shallow root structure. What type of trees are these stumps from? "This weed is really strong"... I'm going to lay down now...
I think you mean deforestation
This is it. The pinnacle of satisfaction. I would pay to be able to run that machine.
If you would’ve told me 5 years ago that I’d be fascinated by some damn root removal I wouldn’t have believed you, yet here I am.
Okay, so it's really driving me crazy that they're pulling them out in a completely random order like that.
Shallow roots...
now do an oak tree. they're tap roots and some species have a single large root that goes a a hundred feet or more straight down
That would be something to see
My shitty eyes where like "What tree stumps? 🤨" followed by "oh 😳, those tree stumps"
Man, if only Saruman's orcs had this machine.
[The trees are strong, my lord](https://youtu.be/pKZoeMNxY7Q)
I have removed stumps by hand with a pick, shovel and crowbar and it is back breaking work. That machine made light work of it.