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We bought a house with both overgrown garden, mature trees and dozens of hidden stumps from rhododendron and blackcurrant (largest of which had grown through the glass of a greenhouse and was the diameter of my thigh...!)
The last few stumps are now rotted enough to get out. Apart from this b*gg*r. I'm thinking fire, but other suggestions welcome. The hole is about 75cm deep so far, no roots.
Stump grinder.
In-situ Swedish fire candle?
Is it dry?
Edit, probably not. Photo looked like lots of stump out of the ground, but maybe it isn't?
I could - but we're 20m up a steep embankment... And fire is more fun.
In-situ Swedish fire candle?
Oooh, good call.
Nuke it form orbit.
Obviously.
Stump grinder +1
Except I’ve just read your post about a slope.
Chinook.
Diesel and fertiliser 😁
Short arm carving chainsaw and a get yer creative juices flowing. Perhaps a bus stop knob? 😉
I’m full of ideas this evening!
Diesel and fertiliser
You forgot the peroxide...
Thermite
Some Xenomorph blood will sort that right out.
C4 or dynamite have to be the way forward.
or to make sure, C4 AND dynamite!
C4 or dynamite have to be the way forward.
In all serious I know someone who would do that for you without breaking the glass in your greenhouse. And he’s only a few miles up the road from you
Spent a lovely day digging a huge stump out of a garden once, including japes with a Land Rover and rope and fire and axes and beer. Lots of beer.
One of the blokes involved died the next day.
Is that a warning Brant?
Can you still buy “root out” ?
If so , cut just below ground level, make a hollow in stump , fill with root out and cover with plastic.
In all serious I know someone who would do that for you without breaking the glass in your greenhouse. And he’s only a few miles up the road from you
Blaster Bates?
Can you still buy “root out” ?
It's been left for 4 years. That area is due to be done up, and I'm not waiting another 4 years....
Brant - I hope that's not a prediction.
And he’s only a few miles up the road from you
There's this local family and related monument...
Brant – I hope that’s not a prediction.
It was quite strenuous work.
It was hot.
He died the next day.
🤷🏻♂️
I'll take the beer then...
Get Binners to curl one off on there. With his diet and noxious guts, it'll ****in melt!
Fair enough,fire it is then.
Hopefully Brant isn’t Nostradamus & I won’t claim my £5.
If you do burn the rhodedendron with fire dont breath any of the smoke, because its toxic. Also dont ask me how i know.
The Rhodies gave up this evening - 5 years of rotting under black plastic meant they came out fairly easily. 7 out in one afternoon and evening.
Put a bird table on top of it and walk away? I am a lazy slob though.
What’s the best way to deal with roadies?
Fire on stumps is usually more difficult than expected, charcoal protects thick timber pretty well. I'd have a good hack at it with a felling axe first, if only to give the fire more surfaces to attack on.
I’ve got what I refer to as the bastard stump in my garden. I tried to remove it once. Dug around the circumference and started rocking it a bit. The garden wall and driveway moved a bit with it. I put a nice Acer in a big pot on top of it. That was four years ago. True story.
So I’d say put something on top of it 👍🏼
Rednecks know best.
Do you actually need to remove it? Can't you just hack it with a chainsaw to well below the soil line and fill the hole back in?
I plan on cutting down some - it's 40cm proud of the ground at present. I've only got a little 16" Bosch electric saw though, it's going to struggle even with a new blade on
It is dry enough - been under a bucket all winter and the tree was felled 3 years ago.
But fire will be fun...
I had one much bigger than that, built a bonfire over it, it burned for 10 days but is completely gone now 😀
Post pics of the fireball 👍
👌
Make sure you clear enough of it from below ground. We had to fell an oak in our garden and the stump at ground level spread to a 5 foot diameter. We had that ground a few inches below soil level and filled over the area. Over 3-4 years, the remaining stump rotted leaving a crater to develop.
Definitely Fire.
*bookmarks* 😀
why are you trying to get rid of your wood chopping platform for all the stacked wood in your logstore to go in your wood burner ? #peakstw
Specialized stump grinder.
Clean the dirt and bark off with an axe on one side of the stump. Plunge cut carefully through the middle clean wood. Grimace as you finish cutting through the dirt on the far side. Sharpen or buy new chain. I would use a mostly used but sharp chain to save knackering a new shiny one.
Don't forget to add a gelling agent to one of the above suggestions.
Jokes aside....
Get a professional to remove it?
Thermite
it's spelt termite, and you might need more than one.
mattock, axe and 4 x 2 or scaffold pole as a lever, gloves.
hard work but do-able.
drill a load of holes in the top, like swiss cheese, add a gallon of 4* and ignite.
I like bonfires.
The oil drum technique works pretty well if it's a reasonably dry stump and root ball, with the drum forming a nice chimney to keep the flames centred on the stump and pulling in at the bottom of the stump. If it needs more than one burn, dig the barrel down and in a bit after the first one to help push the flame seat lower onto the stump
With the stump dug around like that, it creates a nice well for petrol vapour to accumulate and then ignite.
Don’t forget to add a gelling agent to one of the above suggestions.
Ah, yes...
An update of the process
I seem to have run out of refreshments.
Good work 🙂
Like 🙂
That's a blummin' expensive firelighting fluid you have there.
There must be a lot more money in outdoor pursuits compared with when I was employed as an instructor.
If you are going to remove it with fire, use way more petrol and dry your lawn at the same time:
"In what could be understatement of the week, a Connecticut town has admitted that "a poor decision was made" when 24 'merkin gallons (90 litres) of petrol were poured on a baseball field and set on fire.
A local government Facebook page for Ridgefield on Saturday confessed to citizens that the miscalculation had been an attempt to "dry the field quicker" on the morning of a high school baseball game.
employed as an instructor.
I've had a promotion last week. I've now 'Director' in my job title. You serfs be better remember that.
I’ve now ‘Director’ in my job title
What direction are you directing people in?
How's it looking this morning?
Small bottle or really big hands?
Think the clue is on the label
Small bottle 🙁
This morning as I left for work, youngest_oab had been detailed off to stoke it up again as there is one last central bit still charred.
So yes, I'm expecting the neighborhood to be a scorched hole in the ground....and still a tree stump resolutely standing.
What direction are you directing people in?
I've not a clue. Thankfully they have more of an idea