Stump eater?

Gary Mitchell

Well-known Member
Since my 340 won't pull this stump and it's right beside our LP tank I suppose I'm going to have to chemically rot it out. Do any of you have a good product suggestion or a better method? Thanks! gm

BTW, it's walnut.
 
This is probably a stupid idea, but gonna throw it out there anyhow.

What about the possibility of drilling lots of holes into the stump and, on dry days, letting a mixture of sugar water soak into it? If lucky, that would attract some carpenter ants and/or other bugs.
 
A product called StumpX Works. Nothing is fast. Digging it out to the point that the tractor can pull it is a lot of hard work. Jim
 
gm,
Make a stump cover. Use landscaping lumber, fill it with dirt and plant flowers. In 10-12 years the cheap landscaper lumber will be gone and so will the stump. After a big rain, the ground will cave in where there was once a stump.

Stump cover. For $9.99 I'll send you my plans. LoL
 
How big a mess can you tolerate? I have removed stubborn stumps by first using a pressure washer to hydro-lance most of the soil away. MESSY but effective. At the very least it exposes the roots for cutting.
 
Just throw a bag or two of triple 12 fertilizer on the stump. Poke some small holes in it and give it a year or so. Takes out the stump and the roots.
 
mfa sells some stuff I think it is called cardon . take a chain saw and cut if off at ground level and immediately apply that stuff and it will die out and nothing will grow from it.it will eventually rot out. . you have to put it on soon after you cut it cause trees try to seal there selves when there damaged. good luck
 
Welp, my dad would say .... get out the spades, shovels and spud bars ... I want this thing gone by tomorrow.

I don't know how many stumps we dug out by hand, but it was enough to keep us busy.
 
I have used this method a couple of times it may work for you. Cut the ends, both, from a 55gallon barrel. Set it over the stump with bricks supporting it in three locations. Get a supply of kindling and start a fire on top of the stump. Continue to feed the fire until stump is burt up below grass level. The barrel acts like a chimney and the draft down low burns the stump up. Sometimes you can even get a bit of jet engine roar with your fire and draft. Worked for me, I know your lp tank is close, so may not work in your situation. gobble
 
drill some big holes in the stump with a paddle bit and pour buttermilk in the holes, then cover the stump with mulch. takes about a year to rot the stump out.
 
If not in a hurry, drill 1/4" holes vertical all over the face-as deep as a normal drill bit goes is perfectly fine! Fill all the holes with table salt. Did this at my MILs once-stump was underground with in a year, then each year after that I had to add top soil as it kept eating it away and creating a hollow spot! Total cost $1.50, unless you need to replace the bit...!
 
Drill holes and apply fertilizer--high nitrogen is best. The decomposers need nitrogen to utilize all that carbon in the wood. Same reason cattle supplement contains urea. Microbial population is limited by protein manufacture, and protein contains nitrogen in addition to the hydrocarbon skeleton.
 
The 2 best solutions to stumps I've used are a backhoe and a stump grinder. Had a guy come in with one mounted on a skid steer. Did 3 stumps in the yard in about 20 minutes. Charged me 150 dollars. I later bought the backhoe. Only gotta dig out 98 more stumps before the backhoe pays for itself......not really. But that's where I would be if all I did was dig out stumps.

Rick
 

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