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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Giving @davepolaschek's suggestion a try. The T-40 wheel I found in the garage is getting some use as uh, round lever? What do you even call this.

It kinda worked. Well, it didn't budge as I was pulling, but when it fell over while under tension it levered the beam out of the ground sideways and a little forward.

Still refuses to go further, but I'm having a strong coffee and sweets and shall stubbornly continue.

The pesky concrete beam in our garden is now attached with a very beefy chain to a very beefy piece of wire rope. A big tractor steel wheel (sans tyre) is rolled in front of it, with the wire rope leading over the wheel and off to a tractor not depicted here. The ground is churned up from pulling many other concrete beams out of the garden already.
Same arrangement, excep the wheel has fallen over sideways. The wire rope still leads through what used to be its top. The beam however has shifted in the direction of the fallen wheel and left its deep groove for the first time.
The rear end of the beam with a gap that is now about a metric foot longer (we only have metric feet here, sorry, they're about one foot long though). The standard reference foot including boot is next to it. It's a size 44, in case you need to calibrate.
#Farm#Mechanics#Concrete
Mar 12, 2025, 01:14 PM·Public
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mcSlibinas

@yngmar @davepolaschek fell to the right, so next try place wheel a bit to the right. I think it's very good advice, just it need to be perfectly aligned to work.

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Dave Polaschek (he/him)

@mcSlibinas @yngmar Yeah, looks like it worked somewhat. Much easier to do if there’s an axle to hold the wheel upright so it can’t tip.

We would pull stumps with a log chain wrapped around the stump, and then over the top of the roughly 2m tractor tire. Simply throw the loose end of the chain in front of the wheel (so the wheel secures the end) and inch the tractor forward, and out comes the stump.

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mcSlibinas

@davepolaschek @yngmar i saw this amazing technology on youtube, was really impressed by science behind it. Never tried tho 🤔

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