For Drilling Holes In Tree Stumps

[PrecisionMachinisT]

Ike ???

Is that you ???

The magic number is above 40.......

[Ignoramus32760]

I am not Ike... Which magic number are you talking about?

i

[PrecisionMachinisT]

Okay, just wondering.....

44--sometimes 45 IIRC

[Salty Thumb]

[e-mail] (BroJack) wrote in news:40c0a6c7.24624580 @news.newshosting.com:

Sounds like the KNO3 method is tantamount to turning your tree stump into a compost pile, except with industrial strength reagents.

For faster results, you could try drilling more smaller diameter holes instead of just the one. Most people have 3/8" drills, an 8" long bit is another story. If you're stuck with a short length bit, you could always drill a pattern and whack the stump a couple of times to increase the depth and available surface area. Adding water periodically would probably accelerate the results, along with warmer temperatures and. All this being theoretical, never had to do it myself.

Got to go, good luck.

[rec.gardens]

[John Hines]

Drill holes in the stump, fill with sunflower seeds, wait for the wild life to find, and dig them out. Repeat as needed. :)

[Dave Balderstone]

Home Depot will rent you the truck when you rent the grinder.

[George E. Cawthon]

[George E. Cawthon]

Any farm/fertilizer/lawn care/etc. store. Simpler to just buy any standard fertilizer, especially sacks of ammonium nitrate. You buy this stuff anywhere else and you will pay 4-5 up to 20 times the price.

[escapee]

Yes, but the carbon in the stump is not immediately available for it to mix with the N and get the heat process started. It's just a temporary expeditor, or catalyst to help the N work faster. It also feeds the microbes which will further break down the stump and large roots.

Need a good, cheap, knowledge expanding present for a friend?

[escapee]

No, higher. One of the more idiotic types with, say, 40-10-10.

Need a good, cheap, knowledge expanding present for a friend?

[escapee]

Actually, I had a stump ground out about 6 years ago in Dallas and it cost us about 45 dollars for someone to come do it.

Need a good, cheap, knowledge expanding present for a friend?

[George E. Cawthon]

No. 10 percent is low. Garden ferilier is often 15-15-15 which is 15 percent nitrogen and standard lawn fertilizer is 23-?-? which means 23 percent nitrogen. Amonium nitrate will give the highest amount of nitrogen and is 35 percent nitrogen (if I added up the atomic weights correctly). Potassium nitrate is only 14 percent nitrogen.

[Dave Balderstone]

That sounds about right. I asked a tree service about grinding (I'm in western Canada) and for the three stumps it worked out to about $200 CAD. This service charged by inch of diameter.

djb

[BroJack]

Hell, I'd be happy at that price. Internet says $300-400 per tree average. Estimate scheduled for today. Let you guys know.

Jack

[indago]

040604 2008 - escapee posted:

and one striking accomplishment I noticed was the method used for removing tree stumps. They had two huge wheels, looked like about 4 horses high from the drawing, with an axle between the two. The axle was placed over the tree stump and a chain was fastened around the axle and then around the tree stump. Chains were then placed around the wheels and then to a team of horses and the wheels were pulled forward. The leverage was such that the stump would easily be removed. It was said that this method was quite effective for its time.

[davefr]

"Pump diesel into the soil"???

No, you fill the holes you drilled >>

[TOM KAN PA]

Put Carnation Powdered Milk in the holes. It will rot/disolve the stump.

[Amy D]

Actually, this is probably a good idea. Milk is pretty corrosive. My husband is a truckdriver and we were in the truck with him for a few months and my 4 year old spilled a gallon of milk on the floor, which ran out onto the stainless steel fuel tanks and it ate the finish off the tanks!

Milk is technically considered a hazardous material.

amy

[Dan Hartung]

Mechanical advantage is the bomb.

But who can store a wheelset four horses high?

[The Watcher]

Ah, so you're sure that none of that diesel will go into the soil? I wouldn't bet on that happening. Get it? ;) Diesel isn't one of the things I like pumping into the ground.