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Anybody got any tips for stump removal?
Posted on 11/8/26 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 11/8/26 at 5:49 pm
Got some dead and live pinoaks I don't need anymore. Wanna cut em down and was gonna burn the stumps
Posted on 11/8/26 at 6:41 pm to Cracker
Stump grinder is best solution.
Takes longer but drill holes in them and put fertilizer in the holes,will rot much faster.
Takes longer but drill holes in them and put fertilizer in the holes,will rot much faster.
Posted on 11/8/26 at 7:01 pm to LSUA 75
Fertilizer? I don't wanna grow more stumps 
Would salts or maybe diesel help rot?
Would salts or maybe diesel help rot?
Posted on 11/8/26 at 8:26 pm to sqerty
I live in the woods and use firewood as my primary heat source. I broke down and bought a Woodland Mills stump grinder that hooks up to a tractor PTO.
Before that, I tried drilling holes filled with herbicide and the charcoal kiln method to burn them. Both work but take time.
Or you can rent one of those that look like a garden tiller. Usually you have to rent them for a full day, so wither have several stumps to grind or a buddy or two that also have stumps to spread out the rental cost.
Before that, I tried drilling holes filled with herbicide and the charcoal kiln method to burn them. Both work but take time.
Or you can rent one of those that look like a garden tiller. Usually you have to rent them for a full day, so wither have several stumps to grind or a buddy or two that also have stumps to spread out the rental cost.
Posted on 11/8/26 at 8:27 pm to sqerty
Burn em!
Tell your wife you have to keep working on burning that stump, which means you have to sit outside and supervise it. Might as well do it with a drink. Maybe a leaf blower if you want to hurry it along a Lil bit.
Tell your wife you have to keep working on burning that stump, which means you have to sit outside and supervise it. Might as well do it with a drink. Maybe a leaf blower if you want to hurry it along a Lil bit.
Posted on 11/8/26 at 9:07 pm to sqerty
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Would salts or maybe diesel help rot?
People put diesel on boards and posts to prevent them rotting. Not sure what salt will do but I'd guess make harder for the little organisms to break down the wood.
Fertilizer does the job. get a big bit and drill some holes. fill em up
Posted on 11/8/26 at 9:41 pm to Cracker
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Rent a stump grinder
Hell yes. Just remember getting it back in your truck by yourself isn't as easy as it seems when you've been on it for a few hours.
Posted on 11/9/26 at 12:31 pm to sqerty
I bought some stuff at Lowes that you drill holes and pour in. Takes about a year, but it has rotted the hell out of them.
Stump grinders are much quicker, but there is a lot of shavings to deal with….and they will wear you out!
Stump grinders are much quicker, but there is a lot of shavings to deal with….and they will wear you out!
Posted on 11/9/26 at 2:14 pm to Spankum
Burning is fun and faster than treating them but obviously slower than a grinder. I had a couple of smaller trees that I cut down over the summer and me and my two boys started fires on them maybe 2-3 different times and slowly burned them away. Drilled a few holes with a speedbit, poured some gas over and let it soak in overnight, then lit them up the next morning. Feed it a few logs and try to keep active flames going for a few hours rather than letting it smolder. Bonus, I convinced them both that they could toss pine cones on the fire as long as they were the ones that picked them up out of the yard.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:47 am to TU Rob
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Bonus, I convinced them both that they could toss pine cones on the fire as long as they were the ones that picked them up out of the yard.
Now, that is constructive parenting. You the man!
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:03 am to Lutcher Lad
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Now, that is constructive parenting. You the man!
Tends to work much better on the 8 year old than the teenager though. Little bro was a pine cone harvesting machine with his orange Home Depot bucket. Big bro just poked at the fire with a stick and only picked up the pine cones right around the fire.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:04 am to LSUA 75
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put fertilizer in the holes
When bacteria and fungus are making wood rot they quickly run out of nitrogen and rotting slows way down. Drilling and filling with high N fertilized keeps the process going.
The same need for nitrogen goes for decaying roots and all the ground wood that stump grinders leave. You'll have trouble growing anything including grass at the site because the decay process strips out nitrogen. Keep fertilizing.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:18 am to Tree_Fall
quote:seed with clover first and it will take care of the N resupply
You'll have trouble growing anything including grass at the site
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:23 am to LSUA 75
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Takes longer but drill holes in them and put fertilizer in the holes,will rot much faster.
take a leak into the holes too
Posted on 11/10/26 at 11:56 am to sqerty
Industrial grinder or better dig them up and backfill.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:36 pm to sqerty
Redneck option:
Drill holes, fill with oil or diesel and burn them.
Non redneck option:
Rent a stump grinder for half a day
Drill holes, fill with oil or diesel and burn them.
Non redneck option:
Rent a stump grinder for half a day
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