clearing small are of brush/stump

The least expensive quickest way I can think of is to buy a cheep chainsaw for a couple of hundred dollars and rent a skidsteer (bobcak. new holland, etc) for around $500.

Use the skidsteer to clear up everything but the big stump.

For the big stump you have 2 options.

- Dig down with the skidstear and cut the roots with the chainsaw then lift out

- Cut the stump at table height and make a garden table out of it.

Now that pile of brush? What to do with it?

I use a �grubbing� hoe to clean around the base of the tree to be cut. This allows you to really cut at ground level.

Use the excess dirt to cover over the stump.

Next year if /when the tree sprouts up from the roots, go to Tractor Supply and buy a product called REMEDY.

Spray the leaves on the new growth with REMEDY. This will kill the roots and the stump.

My favorite wife has been very successful over the past few years killing Persimmon, Sweet Gum, Kudzu, and Bois de Arc ( Bodark )stumps with REMEDY.

Be patient. The dead stump will be taken over by ants, grubs, termites, etc. They will help �decompose� the dead stump.

Be patient. The armadillos will tear up the decomposed stump to eat the ants, grubs, termites, etc.

We use �loppers� to cut the small brush ( �� � 1�� ) off at ground level.

If you use a tractor with a rotary mower to clear the brush, be sure to come back and use the loppers to cut the �stobs� off at ground level. That helps eliminate any future tractor flats.

Disk or till the ashes from the burn pile. Only grass/plants/weeds with deep roots should grow back.

Hope this helps. Good luck with you clearing and work safely.

Start at one end cutting the trees off at ground level with the chain saw until you have too much brush piled up to work around. Then haul the brush off off to a burn pile. Repeat until you're done.

If you really want the stump gone, dig around it and cut the roots. Most of them go out laterally. You can cut them with an axe or a mattock.

You'll need to mow this area regularly for a couple years to keep the suckers down that will come up from the roots.

A scrape blade will not cut anything of any size. A front end loader bucket is not a bull dozer and should be used very carefully on even small saplings. I would do the chain saw approach like the other posts said. Paint the stumps with a mix of, I think, one part Remedy to 3 parts diesel fuel. Directions should be on the can. I hope it is availiable in less than gallon sizes as a gallon is over $100. I have had good success painting the stumps this way. Paint just after cutting. As for the big stump, it has been suggested on here that a bag of charcoal on the stump will burn it up. I have never tried that. Don't think the truck is suitable for any of what you suggested. I'm also in SC, near Spartanburg. Good luck.

KEH