Tomorrow morning, I am going to destroy a gnarly stump that has been giving me grief for a year.

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area_man

area_man

Burning Hunk
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Feb 12, 2013
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Oregon City, OR
It's going down tomorrow morning. I buried two wedges, an axe, and two wrecking bars in this monstrosity a couple weeks ago and I still couldn't get it apart. It has 12 hours to exist, starting now, before it's components are thrown onto a stack of sticks to dry out.

Then I'm gonna have a turkey burger and hit the books until I have a short stint in clinical practice tomorrow afternoon. My driveway will be clear of this thing before I leave.
 
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I got a HUGE stump next to my driveway. It's amazing what 3 or 4 years of weathering did to it. So rotted now its literally falling apart and grows mushrooms like nobody's business.
Kinda bummed to see it falling apart cause i use it to put potted plants and yard decorations on.
 
pics!
 
I let them season a few years most of the time. I don't like trying to free up steel stuck in a stump so I use lengths of Elm or Beech cut into large wedges, 2-3' long. Then I can cut the pieces free if needed.
 
area_man said:
It's going down tomorrow morning. I buried two wedges, an axe, and two wrecking bars in this monstrosity a couple weeks ago and I still couldn't get it apart. It has 12 hours to exist, starting now, before it's components are thrown onto a stack of sticks to dry out.

Then I'm gonna have a turkey burger and hit the books until I have a short stint in clinical practice tomorrow afternoon. My driveway will be clear of this thing before I leave.
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Area man stump,101
Dynamite to get the stump out of the hole
Bull dozer to push it out then load into a truck and remove
Failing the above, get six friends and a case of beer and whack away with axes.
Grenades are great for this but hard to come by usually. Don't use your chainsaw on the roots because they will get dulled too fast.
Let me know how you make out.
 
Subscribed. The vagueness of your post leaves us speculating on what sort of mayhem you have planned. Please take pictures (and video if appropriate). Off to make popcorn...
 
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Knots said:
Subscribed. The vagueness of your post leaves us speculating on what sort of mayhem you have planned. Please take pictures (and video if appropriate). Off to make popcorn...
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This could be a new realty tv show - busting your stumps!!!!lol
 
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30 years ago when we bought this place the builder left two huge Poplar stumps next to the driveway. One day a neighbor was up when I was looking at them. He asked how I was going to deal with them and I said a quarter stick of dynamite would handle it just fine. He freaked talking about their windows blowing out etc.

I just busted them up with a maul and dragged them out with the truck but that and the gunfire when the beavers dammed the bridge on the driveway sealed the "crazy Texan" label in the neighborhood forever.
 
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Apparently the stump won since we haven't heard back...
Next time try a BEEF burger first.
 
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We may have to read about this in the papers...
 
[Hearth.com] Tomorrow morning, I am going to destroy a gnarly stump that has been giving me grief for a year.
 
As Judge Smails said "CHOP! CHOP!"
 
Yes, I gotta monster spruce stump to remove, about as big as a diesel truck tire, and large above ground roots, what can be done about those?
 
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Yes, I gotta monster spruce stump to remove, about as big as a diesel truck tire, and large above ground roots, what can be done about those?
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I found some guy that did stump grinding on the side on weekends. I had 5 stumps and two estimates were around $1,000, this guy did them all for $150.
 
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Yes, I gotta monster spruce stump to remove, about as big as a diesel truck tire, and large above ground roots, what can be done about those?
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I've heard of people building fires on top of the stump. Never seen it done. Depends a lot on your specific situation though.

A vaguely remember hearing of drilling holes in it and then pouring some liquid in that accelerates the rotting process.
 
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I've heard of people building fires on top of the stump.
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I did that once to a 2' diameter stump. Sawed vertical slots 8-12" deep, poured kerosene on, lit, got lawn chair and watched...for ~18 hours. You can get ALOT of thinking in. LMAO.
 
Bought my house 3 years ago. Big old stump out back I wanted gone. That's been my burn pile ever since, and now no more stump. I don't really like that location though, and wanted the burn pile more by that big willow tree. The same willow tree that I didn't like anyways and then blew down last week. I already have a big fire planned this weekend on my new burn pile. We'll see how long it takes the big willow stump to disappear.
 
I bore into them with an old chain on a saw then dump diesel fuel and drop a match and wait for it to disappear ! haha
 
I had a neighbor who always burned them out with charcoal briquettes. It took a couple days, but it worked. On the liquid method, I heard some old-timers talk about pouring buttermilk into the holes to increase the biological activity.
 
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