Eric my favorite tool for pulling trees is the Masdaam A20 rope puller. I have found that 1500# is more than enough oomph in most cases and it certainly does less damage to the the grass than a truck.
We very rarely use the truck to pull.
No it wasnt under the a lot of load at all. I just wanted to show the setup as that was the only picture I had. We use it the same way except with a comealong instead of the colored slings.
We used this as a redirect to keep the rope off the house. We needed to get a truck on this specific tree, but we have used this same setup to anchor the comealong and pull large trees into empty yards.
Is that from the army rigging manual? I had a 1970 edition that looked just like that... Had cool diagrams about to cut a spar and winch it up in a field, you would guy it out and make a gin pole with it... Pretty cool stuff.
The military has specs in thier old rigging manuals, You can as you say drive rebar into the ground and lash them together, Different amounts and depths as well as lashing methods will provide different strengths.
We use the screw in ones with a simple auger on the bottom, about 3 or 4 feet...
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