Full extraction of a 93-year-old Douglas fir stump and root ball as part of a lot clearing in Arlington — a root system taller than the operator, pulled whole.
This one was a monster. A 93-year-old Douglas fir left a stump and root ball bigger than the machine cab, the kind of root system that stops a lot-clearing job dead if you do not have the iron to move it.
DirtRaptor pulled it whole rather than chasing roots piecemeal — faster, cleaner, and it leaves the ground ready for whatever comes next instead of a field of half-buried root wads. That is the advantage of running excavation and tree work as one operation: the same crew that takes the tree down has the machine to pull what is left of it out of the ground.
