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Title: Tree stump removal
Post by: bigbadjack on June 07, 2022, 12:48:01 pm
Iv got a tree stump in the back garden I need removing and it’s beaten me anyone on here fancy the challenge of removing it or know someone that will
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: Filo on June 07, 2022, 01:20:53 pm
Quote from: bigbadjack on June 07, 2022, 12:48:01 pm
Iv got a tree stump in the back garden I need removing and it’s beaten me anyone on here fancy the challenge of removing it or know someone that will

Get some copper nails and hammer them in the stump it will rot
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: phil old leake on June 07, 2022, 01:31:18 pm
I saw a video on the internet where someone cut one down to about a foot and then cut a cross in it

They then filled the centre of the cross with kindling and poured a little bit of petrol on it and lit it

It apparently burnt the stump out from the middle outwards

I’ve never tried it
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: normal rules on June 07, 2022, 01:59:22 pm
I had five huge conifer trees in the garden cut down a few years ago. The trunks were about half metre thick.
I went old school on them.
Dug around the stump as deep as I could exposing the main roots then went at them with a reciprocating saw/ hand saw.
I spent a weekend on each mind.
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: ravenrover on June 07, 2022, 03:48:51 pm
That's my method too NR
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: scawsby steve on June 07, 2022, 06:17:53 pm
Worked for me too.
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: drfchound on June 07, 2022, 06:24:50 pm
I also did stuff like that a few years ago.
These days I think I would hire a mini digger and drag it out.
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: Draytonian III on June 07, 2022, 06:33:56 pm
Drill some large/deep holes in the stumps and pour Epsom salt’s into the holes , keep topping up the holes with more over the course of a few weeks and they will kill the roots making the stump easier to move . The Epsom Salt’s will take all the moisture from the root
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: River Don on June 07, 2022, 06:36:18 pm
I used to know a bloke, who bored in retirement decided to buy a tree trunk grinder. That became his hobby and business, going around crunching up old tree trunks in the ground.

Probably the more expensive solution that but these businesses do exist.
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: bigbadjack on June 07, 2022, 08:17:40 pm
Cheers all I need it shifting this weekend and Iv got a bloke using a tree grinder to munch it up
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: normal rules on June 07, 2022, 08:24:32 pm
Quote from: bigbadjack on June 07, 2022, 08:17:40 pm
Cheers all I need it shifting this weekend and Iv got a bloke using a tree grinder to munch it up

Grinders only get rid of what you can see. There is a lot more underground that u can’t see. Depends what you plan to do with the ground I suppose
Title: Re: Tree stump removal
Post by: bigbadjack on June 07, 2022, 08:31:08 pm
Yeah that’s all we are doing just levelling it, I wish I just left it