Another Way To Handle Tree Stumps?

I've read in many places across the internet that powdered milk will greatly accelerate the rotting.

I drilled 1/4" holes all over mine and then wet it down. Then sprinkled it liberally with powdered milk.

I don't know if it really did anything, but it did rot pretty quick.

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Likewise. I have (and continue) to cut stumps at ground level with a chainsaw. That almost always results in cutting dirt at some point. Yes, I have to sharpen it after doing so but it hardly dulls "immediately".

Harry K

I used the planter method. Cut a few inches below ground level a stump about 4ft across at that point. I drilled many holes then made a flower bed over it. ca 10 years later, the stump is still there but is beginning to come up in rotten pieces when I dug it up this spring. I will probably let it go back to lawn next year.

The best way to get them below ground is to just rent a stump grinder. Beats all the other suggestions for actually getting rid of them.

Harry K

I just move enough dirt around them so I can get enough room to cut them off flush with the ground with a chainsaw and then ignore them. We mow right over them.

-Brad -

- Harry K -

- Nehmo - I would ignore this issue and go about what I need to do today, but this is an important issue for safety and for the maintenance of the tool. Of all the power tools commonly available, the chainsaw should be given the utmost respect.

A chainsaw is not supposed to be used in a position where it may touch the ground. If you have been using the tool that way, you have been abusing it.

Chainsaw Main

Chain saw safety

Getting in the Wood

All you can do with a chainsaw is cut the stump close to the ground. Nothing beyond that should be attempted.

Sure it can. It just ruins the chain saw. That's why I recommended using someone else's.. The real problem is that it's freaking dangerous, as you're in an awkward position with the tip buried in the ground where you can't see it, and that just invites kickback and other excitement.

--Goedjn

This is obviously a completely worthless source of information.

I'm not arguing the safety issues at all. I've cut down and sliced up

I strongly suspect that drilling 1/4" holes all over it and putting *anything*,

or even nothing, in them would greatly accellerate rotting.

You better watch it.

You'll have the animal rights people after you.

BroJack

I would imagine that renting one of those plus the generator and compressor it would need would be way more than the $100 or so to rent the proper tool - a stump grinder. Just my .02