Another Way To Handle Tree Stumps?

[BroJack]

Pneumatic drill?

Jack

[Mike LaMana]

Sure, but why?

[John McGaw]

Caterpillar D11R.

[John Hines]

Wouldn't do any different than an electric drill. Except maybe work under water.

How about the classic Skill saw, with a cheap carbide tipped blade? That will cut thru most anything, with the right blade. A low tooth count, if you have a choice.

Otherwise, as Jimmie Walker used to say (not in this context) Dyno-Mite!!

[Brad]

Trackhoe

[BroJack]

Mowing around stumpers adds an extra hour to the mowing chore.

Jack ______________

[DanG]

Leave them tall enough to install a nice top and use as a picnic table.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Keep the whole world singing. . . . DanG

[Brad]

What do you mow with? Fingernail clippers?

[Mike LaMana]

Why not blast them out?

[Phisherman]

I cut down an oak tree early this year. Later, I cut off the stump close to the ground using a bow saw (I don't have a chain saw) such that I can mow over the stump without the blade hitting it. I plan to let the stump be as it is and eventually rot on its own. It might take awhile, since white oak is rot resistant.

[BroJack]

Cub Cadet.

Jack

[Harry K]

My old man's method. Enough dynamite to render it into splinters. No kidding. When he blew a stump there was nothing left to pick up.

Harry K

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A neighbor drilled a dozen or so holes in the sides of an empty coffee can, ran it through the can opener again to remove the bottom and set the empty cylinder on the stump. He filled it with charcoal briquettes, added some charcoal lighter, and fired it up.

The incredibly hot fire burned right down through the middle of the stump; hardly any flame but a lot of wonderful smelling smoke. He hosed down the area around the stump a couple of times a day to insure that the fire didn't spread. By the time it burned itself out there was little left but the outer bark. Once it cooled it only took a few licks with an axe to knock what was left into the hole in the center. A couple of shovelfulls of dirt on top and the stump magically disappeared.

John

[Kipper]

How about a planter?

[Bubba]

Contact paper?

[Rileyesi]

Just start a compost pile over it if it is small enough and in a good location. After a few years you will have great compost and no more stump.

[xrongor]

i cut mine low and built planters over them.

randy

[Charles]

Move. I got rid of moles that way.

[Nehmo Sergheyev]

- Phisherman -

- Nehmo - If a chain saw hits the dirt, the blade dulls immediately. A chain saw with a regular chain can't be used to remove stumps.

[Brad]

Immediately? I hit the dirt with mine once in a while and I get a ton of mileage out of it before it needs sharpening.