Now that I can post pics again
This is what I did, evenings, in the hottest bloody week of the summer.
I may have posted this pic before. This is the stump during excavation. the hole is maybe eight feet on it’s long axis, the stump maybe two feet on it’s long axis (the top, the bottom is obviously bigger)
This is the stump mostly cut in half, which makes obvious why it needed removal
And this is the smoothed out area of dirt where once stood an oak tree. or as I call it, the hole formerly known as stump.
And I have the scars to show for it, believe you me.
Heh or if you’re lazy like me, you leave it alone for 5 years while ants, various fungi and the elements have at it.
Then one day you go to split a log on what looks to be a solid stump and it explodes into powder.
Looks like a neat job. Well done.
M
A couple of years ago I had to have a 40-year-old quadruple maple tree taken out of the back yard. This thing was easily six or seven feet in diameter and probably 50 or 60 feet tall. The worst part was that it had a very large branch flying out over the utility lines. It took six guys and a bucket truck all day to get that thing out. My yard is still full of holes from where they dropped 2-foot chunks of tree.
The upshot is that for an extra hundred I had them grind the stump. Considering I was raped to the tune of $2300 to take the tree out in the first place, it seemed a small price to pay.
Nice job. Makes my back hurt just looking at it.
You could put an entire 1958 Buick in that hole. Nice work Glad you didn’t ask me to help. :-)
Nope, you get out an auger and bit, and drill a bunch of 1/2″ holes downward in said stump and fill with saltpeter. Let sit over the winter, then next summer, burn the stump and you’ll be amazed at how quick and completely it burns. If the fire goes out below the dirt line, just repeat the procedure.
The old-timers’ methods are hard to beat.
Can’t burn in my neighborhood.Otherwise I woulda done that ages ago.