Anybody ever try to remove (chip out) a stump using a chisel attachment and a hammer drill in the hammer mode?
(I've been looking for an excuse to buy one of these and wondering if this is my chance)
Tim
I'm sure someone's tried it. I doubt anyone was successful.
Nope, sorry.
This might, however, be your chance to get a shovel, come-a-long, sawzall, and some of these blades:
Unless the thing is bone dry, or the chisel has a sharp edge, it'd be like hammering a sponge. Especially the side roots. It isn't concrete- it won't shatter. Probably have more luck with a ship auger, and just start boring big holes in it. They sell stuff to pour in the holes to speed up rot. If it is in the way, pay somebody to stop by with a stump grinder. Or buy yourself an axe and a hatchet, along with a sharpening stone, and spend several months doing an hour a day whittling away at it. (Probably be a good exercise program, and good stress therapy.)
-- aem sends...
Cheaper to pay a pro, forget the drill
Jump up a notch and buy a Bosch 35lb demo hammer or it's equivalent, and a clay spade.
I still had to do some digging, but it severed 5-6" pine roots in short order- and saved me a whole lot of digging when I could angle it under the tree to cut the tap root.
I chopped the smaller roots with a sacrificial axe and a sharp maddox depending on where I was standing in relation to the root.
Jim
Don't think that will work.
I have used a pressure washer to get the dirt from around the roots so I could make a clean cut.
Got a few strange looks from people driving by.
Colbyt
You mean mattock.
Yes I did. And I wish I could remember what Agent wanted me to change it to,but I thought Agent was ignorant and added it. So now I'm trying to find Agent's dictionary and make it right again.
Or a Georgia Governor. And since 1964 I've confused the 2.
Jim
Wasn't he the one that passed out ax handles for a photo op once? Mebbe that is how they got conflated in your head.
-- aem sends....
That's the guy- and though I remember 'ax handles', too, it seems they were pick handles, so even closer to a mattock-
Jim
snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote in news:de581ce3-8fdf-49f5-8097-88472f2da354 @g3g2000pre.googlegroups.com:
Call the police from a pay phone. Tell them you saw a man burying what looked like a body around the stump. They will come out and dig it up for you.
Better, an opportunity to practice Zen. Eventually, they rot.
G
cut stump off level with grade
dig all around stump, garden hose exposed stump
use chain saw to grind down stump uder grade level.
cover with dirt, seed and forget.
its time consuming but way easiest way
Hey, that's a super duper idea. For stump removal, sawzall and a LOT of blades is the way to go. Cut the tree as high as you can, so you've got a lot of trunk to pull on. And then use a chain and pull it out with the truck. Or come along tool to the trailer hitch.
Farther out in the country, drill a bunch of holes, soak the stump with kerosene and burn it out.
Hey, that's a super duper idea. For stump removal, sawzall and a LOT of blades is the way to go. Cut the tree as high as you can, so you've got a lot of trunk to pull on. And then use a chain and pull it out with the truck. Or come along tool to the trailer hitch.
Farther out in the country, drill a bunch of holes, soak the stump with kerosene and burn it out.
Hey, that's a super duper idea. For stump removal, sawzall and a LOT of blades is the way to go. Cut the tree as high as you can, so you've got a lot of trunk to pull on. And then use a chain and pull it out with the truck. Or come along tool to the trailer hitch.
Farther out in the country, drill a bunch of holes, soak the stump with kerosene and burn it out.
Hey, that's a super duper idea. For stump removal, sawzall and a LOT of blades is the way to go. Cut the tree as high as you can, so you've got a lot of trunk to pull on. And then use a chain and pull it out with the truck. Or come along tool to the trailer hitch.
Farther out in the country, drill a bunch of holes, soak the stump with kerosene and burn it out.
I've had several stumps. Wouldn't risk damaging a chain saw or Sawzall, but I drilled several 1" holes deep into the stump and keep them filled with 34-0-0, nitrogen fertilizer. After 2-4 years, depending on the stump size, I easily take out the remains with an axe.
Ok, another idea: what about using a circular saw to cut the stump into bite-size pieces that can be hammered off? Will the dirt dull a circular saw blade in the same way it dulls a chain on a chain saw?
I'm thinking termites.
But if not, at least cut into the face of the stump so it holds rain water and rots faster.
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