stump be gone

[J.W Younger]

a couple of weeks ago lightining got one of the oaks lining my driveway.I,ve got it cut split and stacked,made a little over a cord. this afternoon I flush cut the stump, just over 40" at the root spread but even tho I can now mow over it I would rather have it out below ground level so the area will be level instead of mounded. anybody got any suggestions other than grinding? If I do have it ground about what do you think it will cost?

 

[welder15725]

I have a stump I'm getting rid of. I have just been having camp fires on top of it. Its still alittle green so it is takin a couple of fires to get it below the ground enough to cover it with dirt.

 

[husky455rancher]

well i got an idea, but your gonna work your ass off to do it unless you have a machine.

my dad had some backhoe work dont a few weeks ago and they tried to get 2 stumps out. the stumps wernt having any of that lol. so the backhoe just dug a hole around both the stumps maybe 2 feet deep. then i took my maul and chopped all the bark off the tree well below ground level so it was pretty clean.

next i grabbed some chain that were on their final sharpening stage and cut em below ground level. i smoked my chains but i knew that was gonna happen. we filled in the holes and now he has a nice big turn around for the driveway

 

[ropensaddle]

a couple of weeks ago lightining got one of the oaks lining my driveway.I,ve got it cut split and stacked,made a little over a cord. this afternoon I flush cut the stump, just over 40" at the root spread but even tho I can now mow over it I would rather have it out below ground level so the area will be level instead of mounded. anybody got any suggestions other than grinding? If I do have it ground about what do you think it will cost?

Don't know how far you are away but I would grind it for ya! A large stump here in my area
is around 100.00 or my minimum in other words but if there were 100 stumps I can grind that amount for twenty per stump!

 

[savageactor7]

Over the years I've had good results putting check marks # on mostly flushed stumps with the chain saw.

Using the # mark method go in a half inch or more and leave 'em dished in the center to hold water. It promotes the decay process...if your in a bigger hurry cut deeper and after it rots a year you'd be surprised what a heavy duty spud bar will do to the remaining partially rotted stump.

 

[beagledog]

If you have one, a pressure washer works pretty well. A little slow and messy, but it'll blast it out of there. Never tried it on a green stump, though, now that I think about it. Good luck.

 

[Mud23609]

Old farmr trick around here is t drill a bunch of one inch holes in it, soak it every day for a week or two with diesel then light it up. Repeat as necessary. Helps to use a few chunks of really dry wood on top of it (2x4's work well) to really get everything going. Might have to wait a while for the stump to dry out a bit though.

Around here is is usually done in the winter with trees that were cut that summer.

 

[Rookie1]

Ive heard stories from old of using dynamite. I think that would be ther easiest way. Too bad you just cant go to the hardware store and buy a stick or two.

 

[demographic]

Old farmr trick around here is t drill a bunch of one inch holes in it, soak it every day for a week or two with diesel then light it up. Repeat as necessary. Helps to use a few chunks of really dry wood on top of it (2x4's work well) to really get everything going. Might have to wait a while for the stump to dry out a bit though.

Around here is is usually done in the winter with trees that were cut that summer.

The method I heard was to soak it with sodium chlorate weedkiller.

Its an oxidising agent and when you light a fire on it it burns the stump away.
First of all I've never tried it so can't say how well it works and secondly, the sodium chlorate weedkiller we get over in the UK now has a fire retardent in it to stop people making bombs out of it, not sure if the stuff avaliable un the US is still of the "Original and best recipie" or if its like our stuff.

 

[Ductape]

Ive heard stories from old of using dynamite. I think that would be ther easiest way. Too bad you just cant go to the hardware store and buy a stick or two.

This is exactly how my pop told me they did it when he was a kid...... went to the hardware store and bought explosives. People must have been much smarter then !

 

[ropensaddle]

This is exactly how my pop told me they did it when he was a kid...... went to the hardware store and bought explosives. People must have been much smarter then !

weren't foreigners much running our streets then.

 

[coog]

The diesel trick works if you are patient.
I worked in a meat market when I was a kid.It was in a building that housed a hardware store for over a hundred years.The butcher bought the building and contents and filled the basement and attic with all of the hardware leftovers.Well, I was told to clean up an area (near the furnace!) and found the dynamite crates...right behind the black powder kegs! This was at least 10 years after the building had changed hands.They had a terrible fire a few years later, which killed a couple of firefighters.No one but me knew how much worse it could have been.

 

[Slick]

tractor supply has some liquid you put into hole similar to the diesel idea..can't remember if you light it up or it just eats it away...I would imagine some type of light acid would eat it away pretty quickly over a summer if you kept at it.

 

[myzamboni]

weren't foreigners much running our streets then.

Unless your are full-blooded Native American, you anscestors are the same 'foreigners' you are mentioning (so get off your high horse)

 

[ropensaddle]

Unless your are full-blooded Native American, you anscestors are the same 'foreigners' you are mentioning (so get off your high horse)

I am full blooded native American and proud to be on my horse pilgrim my ancestors conquered this land and my family history were pioneers in the great plains on one side but I was born and lived here all my life.

 

[J.W Younger]

Don't know how far you are away but I would grind it for ya! A large stump here in my area
is around 100.00 or my minimum in other words but if there were 100 stumps I can grind that amount for twenty per stump!

well it wasn,t easy but i dug down about a foot @ it used my string trimmer too knock some off the dirt and bark,rocks etc and cut it off about 4" below ground level . all this rain made the digging easier but it was still a bear. after i get the hole filled back in and the grass covers it won,t be much of a mound if any

 

[husky455rancher]

 

[stevejr33]

I am full blooded native American and proud to be on my horse pilgrim my ancestors conquered this land and my family history were pioneers in the great plains on one side but I was born and lived here all my life.

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kiss off

 

[Rookie1]

Unless your are full-blooded Native American, you anscestors are the same 'foreigners' you are mentioning (so get off your high horse)

I am full blooded native American and proud to be on my horse pilgrim my ancestors conquered this land and my family history were pioneers in the great plains on one side but I was born and lived here all my life.

Funny how a comment meant to be funny turned into this.

 

[Nosmo]

Burn 'em Out

I dig down around the stump to the roots. If you can dig under the roots with a probe or pipe to get air tunnels you can burn it out. I've burned many stumps out .

I was taught years ago by a neighbor how to burn 'em out. He told me you have to get up underneath it with the fire. You can't do no good burning on top.

Dig down around the roots to let air and coals fall under them. Try setting a barrel with both ends out on top and build the fire inside the barrel and let the coals collect in those pockets. Keep the fire going and that stump will be history in 2-days.

Nosmo