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Has anyone used a chemical stump remover before that you would recommend? Im going to grind them this summer but I wanted to rot them more so they grind much faster, i have about 15 to do so i can build my barn. any help would be appreciated!
 
Local tree service is 'almost' family. They say drill 1/4" holes as deep as your bit will go all over the stump. Fill with table salt. Within a year it is gone! I tried it, it works!
 
Most of the big box garden store stump removal products, have the main active ingredient of potassuim nitrate, AKA saltpeter. Drill 3/4" holes, add the KNO3, and stopper with a cork, or piece of branch. It works, but not fast, wait at least a year, then dump Kerosene, or diesel, on top of the stump, make a chimney out of an old 55 gallon barrel, sitting on 3 bricks, and you get a nice hot fire that destroys the bulk of the stump. If the stump is bigger, use a rear tractor rim, or bigger piece of steel culvert pipe.
 
Tree roots under the barn is not best practice. Even grinding will leave 3" roots around the perimeter that will rot and subside the ground.
If it is not a poured floor, but just stone, it will be easy to refill the voids when it happens. If it were mine I would use a back hoe and remove them whole, then dose out the earth and refill/compact and build. Jim
 
I would also think that copper sulfate poured in holes of the stump (drilled out first) would eventually eat the stump too. I just put topsoil on the stump and plant grass.
 
I second dyidave. Drill holes, I fill with hydraulic oil, 10-30, etc, whatever is around. Let it rot out a while and torch.

Rick
 
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