Tree stump grinding;

Sharp mattock and a rugby player. It'll cost some beer.

Take your time and do it with a chisel as I have been doing. See

Mike

"TMC" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@bt.com:

As an aternative cut some slots into the top with a chainsaw and leave for a year to rot ... that's what I've done with mine, and its worked. A lot less faffing about than grinding.

Of course if they want the stump out now, they want it out now ... but they do rot quickly.

drill holes, and fit bangers.

light blue touch paper....

Actually I burnt enough of a stump out by lighting fires on it and digging away at the chaacoal..

Depends how many sharp teeth on it. Here's one I did earlier

The little Dosko pedestrian controlled one costs about GBP250/day and will take your stumps down to 250mm below ground in that less than that time.

AJH

Possibly quite a lot of beer ...

Nick

I take it you don't have flints in the New Forest:-)

regards

Plenty of pebbles in Windsor Great Park, I didn't realise I was being filmed and you will note I started slewing to have a crack at right angles but realised someone was in line of fire, that machine could fling a shopping trolley 50 metres and you'd burn your hands picking it out of the mulchings.

The big machine doesn't mind flints, I had to clear a borehole site for anglian water and the chalky brash was covered with flints the size of my hand, afterwards it looked like slivers of glass strewn over the site.

AJH

Missed earlier posts in the thread.

I hired a stump grinder from a local hire shop. Had to have it delivered and collected. Seem to recall it was fairly narrow.

I had 2 old conifer stumps about 60cm across each and probably about