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Read articles →This is a multi-day, real-world stress test rather than a polished demo: an owner uses the LS MT240E backhoe to attack a large maple stump, digging, chainsawing roots, and even chaining up a second tractor to try pulling it free. The stump ultimately wins, and the owner admits it wasn't removed. Useful for seeing the backhoe's limits on tough root balls, less useful for clean spec or capability answers.
Posted by the Mallard 5 (+1) Farmhouse & Homestead channel, an owner-operator documenting hands-on use of a borrowed/loaner LS tractor on their own property.
No, after three days of digging, cutting roots, and even pulling with two tractors chained together, the stump did not come out. The owner says the tractor could do it but it would take a massive hole and a long time.
The owner chained a second 40 horsepower tractor to pull on the drawbar while the LS MT240E backhoe pulled too, but the roots were too big and deep, and the stump never budged.
The owner decided to stop digging, fix the yard back up, and plans to burn the stump out of the ground instead, saying it will take days.
