I’m curious to hear your standard procedure for removing a stump if you can’t use a grinder or heavy equipment.
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Noodle the stump the best I can without hitting dirt. Throw a tractor rim around it and it becomes the new firepit for the next 2-3 yrs.
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I don't...cut it low so I can mow over it, let it rot...
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Cut it low and put some termites around it. Gone in a couple years. LOL Plunge in first while the chain is good then work the edges. I clean all the dirt around it too so I can get real low if mowing over.
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Have dug around them, washed with power washer, cut below ground level with a junk (sharp) chain. Shoveled dirt back in, planted grass and waited for a dip in ground to form.
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I echo the cut em low club. I just bought two more stump grinders a couple of months ago. I also have a chainsaw style one but I never tell anybody that. ( it's a Husky so I'm not real proud of it).
I was gonna say that but I didn't want Homeland Security knocking on the door.
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First call your local utility locators to make sure there are no utility lines near or under the stump if it's close to where utility lines might be. It's a free service. If there are utility lines near it, I would go with a stump rot product and not burn it out. Lost of good ideas so far and all will work. Drill holes or plunge cut some slits in it, get some salt peter and fill hols, let sit for a month or two them burn it. The salt perter will even make the roots burn down underground. What type of wood is it? Some wood rots fast some don't.I had a box elder blow over next to a propane tank with a water line attached to the stump, so burning it wasn't an option. in less then a year I could push it over by hand.
A fire ring will keep heat on the stump and you can burn it out if it's not next to anything flammable.
A salt block will work over time. Stump rot products work well but take time.
This is exactly why I hang on to old chains so I can plunge cut slots deep into it and keep it wet and it should rot. If you keep it wet mold a fungus will eat it up pretty fast.
Leave it a few feet high and put a table top on it and use it as a table till it rots out.
Plunge cut the middle out with some plunge cuts in the side so air can get into the center and burn it.
Set a potted plant on it and use it as a pedestal for the potted plant.
Dig out as much dirt around it and burn it.
Was it a dead tree or green tree?
All these will work over time, and some better then others.
Get you a steel pipe or conduit and use your leaf blower and once you build a fire and get it hot enough the forced air will speed up the burning time. You will have to adjust the amount of air flow. Too much air and it will blow it out, so adjust the distance and air speed to keep it burning. Good air flow will make it burn hotter and burn faster. Kinda like a blast furnace.
A fire ring will keep heat on the stump and you can burn it out if it's not next to anything flammable.
A salt block will work over time. Stump rot products work well but take time.
This is exactly why I hang on to old chains so I can plunge cut slots deep into it and keep it wet and it should rot. If you keep it wet mold a fungus will eat it up pretty fast.
Leave it a few feet high and put a table top on it and use it as a table till it rots out.
Plunge cut the middle out with some plunge cuts in the side so air can get into the center and burn it.
Set a potted plant on it and use it as a pedestal for the potted plant.
Dig out as much dirt around it and burn it.
Was it a dead tree or green tree?
All these will work over time, and some better then others.
Get you a steel pipe or conduit and use your leaf blower and once you build a fire and get it hot enough the forced air will speed up the burning time. You will have to adjust the amount of air flow. Too much air and it will blow it out, so adjust the distance and air speed to keep it burning. Good air flow will make it burn hotter and burn faster. Kinda like a blast furnace.
Good stuff fellas
Oaks rot fast if kept wet, pine will also rot fast unless it's full of pitch. The center is dead wood and will burn first the outer edges may be green and take much longer to burn. But the leaf blower attached to a steel pipe will speed up burn time quite a bit.
Buttermilk is reported to speed up decomposition.
Urine works too.
I've got two stump grinders but if a stump at my place is not in the way of anything I let it rot away. I like watching the progression of decay and particularly enjoy watching mushroom growth.
Urine works too.
I've got two stump grinders but if a stump at my place is not in the way of anything I let it rot away. I like watching the progression of decay and particularly enjoy watching mushroom growth.
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If you have some hogs, you can use them to dig it out. Take a crowbar and poke a bunch of holes in the ground near the stump and fill them with cracked corn. The hogs will do the rest. You can also do this with chickens but they work much slower. If you have porcupines in the area, pour some salt water on the stump and they will literally eat it out of the ground. If you are short on critters, get some potassium nitrate (stump rot Lowes) drill it full of holes and pour in the salt.
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not sure how big of stump you're talking about. I used to grind stumps and a grinder makes it easy. I would chip it away with an ax before i would try to burn or wait years for it to rot. Only if i couldn't get a stump grinder to it. maybe going across the top with a circular saw several times and chipping out pieces with an ax then repeating until its below ground level.
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