Nearing 30 million views watching a 3 part series documenting a 3 month stump burning! You have restored my faith in mankind! There is hope for our species yet! Thanks!
Sooo...basically drill a bunch of holes, fill with veg oil then burn a whole bag of charcoal on it for 3 days....my friend, this is GENIUS! Now, if only I knew a way to get rid of a burnt stump that smells like veg oil.
Thank you so very much Excellent video... your a good man to pass down the old ways to the younger people... Way to many of the old ways have been lost
I have done about the same thing but I put honey in the holes and the stump got full of bugs going after the honey and then the big red headed wood peckers went after the bugs they took the stump out. I would get me a cup of coffee in the morning set on the front porch and watch them work
No drilling; no oil; just beer! A neighbor removed oak stumps 4 times that size. He built a small fire at the base and placed an old vacuum's exhaust directly on that creating a forge. It took weeks but sitting there with a beer made the time enjoyable.
Oh by the way does anybody know how to get road tar all off the side of a white car up to the door handles? What's the best method Man I got to find it way to do this don't want to run my car
I tried this about 15 years ago. Slow cooked it, I thought I was brilliant. After a day I could tell the roots below we’re still going. Later that afternoon I had the entire Fire Department at my front door, got a stern talking to about underground gas pockets and gas lines. But it did work :)
For those interested in just killing a stump (making sure the little sprouts stop growing from it) use plain old ordinary table salt. Pour a generous portion of salt over the top of the stump and repeat once after it disappears due to rain or wind. That will make the stump dead.
Did something similar about 20 years back on a buddies farm but instead of using vegetable oil to fill holes we drilled we filled them with black powder. once we had holes filled with powder when got a piece of round dowel that fit tight in holes,cut them to about 1" to 2" then drilled a hole through the dowel to install some cannon fuse. once all holes in stump were plugged with dowel and fused we lite it, jumped on our quads and rode about 100yrds away and about 20sec later that stump was gone and nicely mulched up although it was scattered about a good 30yrds from where stump was. lmfao
This is divine providence. I live in Illinois, and I had to recently cut down 10 dead ashes in my yard, got everything limbed, bucked and split, but I was left with these huge stumps. Thank you sir.
With a stump that dry I would have poured kerosene/charcoal lighter fluid all over the top and let it soak in good and then lighted it. Generally the heat from the dry wood burning will dry out the moist wood and there is a good chance that the fire will continue to smolder and burn a good ways into the ground as it follows the roots. Stump gone and roots probably gone as well after a few days.
Got rid of one just like that. Skilsaw and an axe. Made multiple cuts boths ways over face of stump, about 1/4" apart. Knock the pieces off, and cut it again. Less than an hour, I had it below ground level.
Thank u!! My parents hv a pine tree stump next to the house. Usu we can use a 55-gal barrel w/ a top & burn it. But it’s WAYYY too close to the house to risk & most stump remover chemicals say burn after treating for 4-6 wks. I’ll tell my sons & hopefully they can take care of this task for their grandparents. What did u use to kill the roots?
I had some stumps like Marsh Rat, but found that after drilling the holes with an electric drill which works better, I filled the holes with saltpeter, or potassium nitrate which I had leftover from an old recipe from making Polish sausage. After 6 months to a year, I took my sledgehammer and pulverized the stumps, and filled the area with dirt & sod I got from another part of my yard,. Takes a little time, but you get some satisfaction and exercise from knocking the stumps apart with almost no cost.
We used the logs from the tree and built a big old fire on top of that there stump 2 nights later, nuffin left but ash with no sign of the pesky stump. Happy days y'all.
What an incredible artist and a well made video that lets you share the adventure. Thank you Lviv
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Last summer I was inspired by videos like this to burn down stumps with help of drilled holes, oil and gasoline. First I tried with used engine oil but the flame would not stay for long. When I tried adding some gasoline, first it's going all smoothly but not for long. And when I made a huge mistake, there was still one flame going on in hole, I did not noticed it and poured gasoline on stump and instantly I was in flame - synthetical track suit pants and sweater caught the fire almost instantly. I got burned my inner part of thighs, a little bit of wrist and a bit more throat. I did got lucky because plastic canister did not blown up. For good month I was walking like penguin, changing bandages was super painful. After a year there are no sing of burns. Who knows how would it turn out otherwise - burned face or worse (or maybe better) death. So You all be very careful with flammable liquids or You will know a world of hellish pain. Stay safe everybody... and sorry for my bad english.
My goodness, I was so enchanted by your voice, accent and the way you speak, that I all forgot about the stump. You may consider applying for some voice-over job in an animated cartoons studio. Little kids would be happy to see a pirate or a father bear speaking like you.
I live into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and I had to remove 50 stumps from Maple trees that were planted in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. That were starting to rot at the base of the tree. I had 42 stumps in my 1 acre yard that I talked the grinder guy down to $75 each. His grinder was really cool and had a remote control. I had 8 more that I looked out the window every morning near the woods while brushing my teeth. I took a 1/2 inch brad tip drill bit and a 1950s Craftsman hammer drill and drilled 196 holes 6 inches deep. I then nailed black garbage bags on top of each. This caused the moisture to rise out of the stump due to the heat of the sun on the black bags. After a few months, I went to the local bar in town and got 60 gallons of used fry oil and poured it into each hole. I probably only needed 40 gallons, but it was free. I let it sit all summer and when the leaves fell in the fall and before the snow I lit them up. It worked fabulously. Fast, nope. Basically free, yes. Plus, my wife was not about to agree to spend more "Stump Money" as she calls it just so I didn't have to see them everyday as I brushed my teeth.
Good to see a De Walt bit of kit. I have the whole set of these tools. Having built our own house, they have had a good work out. Great, reliable and efficient stuff.
I dug around my stump first to let it dry faster, then cut holes in the sides to meet vertical shafts for better airflow and covered my stump with the bottom third of a metal barrel while drying. It still took two days to burn but only needed wood for lighting. I did use the bottom of that metal barrel to reflect back heat and work as a chimney. Best of all, all was told in one paragraph that only took a minute to read! Admittedly, no advertisers paid for my paragraph so “Swamp Rat” has got me there!
My friend has his blasting license. He takes a metal rod and bores a hole under the stump best he can. He puts explosives under the stomp and BOOM, thats the fun way. Easy too!
One of my best winters was spent each evening sitting round a series of burning tree stumps in cane chairs with our beer sitting in the snow behind us. By spring the paddock was clear of stumps and there were a lot less tiger snakes around the farm.
That can easily create an underground fire and if you live near a forest like me could burn down the whole thing. For people that don't have fire open field and fire as an option: Make use of colder climate!! During the days/nights when things reach negative degrees pour water into the holes. That will make the water freeze, expand and destroy the wood from the inside. It will also rot the wood so you will be able to remove the stump in pieces with an axe afterwords. Can be a slower process since it takes a while but it's the best I could come up with...
thank you so much. i have been looking for weeks on how to remove my yard (its a giant stump, just to be clear). this enormously aided me in my adventure of life. one quick question though... what kind of pen do you recommend to mark the stump? thank you and god bless your kind soul.
23 million views and the video literally shows nothing about stump removal! LOL I hope this guy is laughing all the way to the bank. He could have just said " The best way to remove a stump is to wait 20 years until it rots away". Priceless.
Marsh rat you wpyld be good to buy the 20v adaptwr for your 18v drill. It sure makes those older dewalt drills run better with the new 20v max batteries.
1:05 "what I like to do is just try to mark it off into quadrants" *just running a pencil across the stump at seemingly random* "now it dont gotta be exact."
This is the second time in 2 years that UA-cam has recommended this video. I decided to like it this time around. But look at those stats, 22M views, for a channel with 48k subs.
I don't know why the hell I watched this: I don't even have trees. But I enjoyed the fatherly kindness of the narrator. I guess I'll watch the other parts.
Vegetable oil? Dang, I thought this was going to involve long auger bits, dowel pins, Elmer’s glue, Estes model rocket igniters and black powder. 😂 With the hood up on a ‘72 Chevy pickup: “Now, hold my beer and watch this!”
I totally got rid of three stumps and their roots in my back yard. I drilled a bunch of 1/2" holes about 1" to 2" deep in no particular pattern and poured in some Stump Remover. The stumps turned into sawdust and left a big hole. Where the roots were, I could trace them because the ground caved in.
If you dont mind waiting a few years. I hammered 6 copper pennies into a 30 year old hard a rock stump. In 2 years it rotted away. I even got the pennies back.
I didn't use veggie oil, I bought bbq lighter fluid, 3 bottles, soaked the stump with one bottle the first day, second bottle the second day, and on day three, (Saturday) went out at 7 pm, soaked it with half the bottle, then at 8 and finished the bottle and lit it...lol Bonfire!!!! It was great, my fire was bigger than the neighbor's, Justin was mad... I won. :D We make our own fun in the country...
Had four stumps in the backyard. A huge sycamore stump 26 inches across. Two maples each about 18 inches across, and a mulberry that wasn't that big but was all intertwined with sycamore. Looked at all the easy ways to get them out. Didn't want them ground as the grass never grows right where they are ground. Sighed and spent a summer digging those suckers out. The hole for the sycamore was about seven feet in diameter and about three feet deep as I wanted to get the big roots. My Lord, it was so much work.
If you can get your grinder to go 4" - 6" deep, grass does ok. Unless your dealing with Spruce, Pine, Fir or any tree that creates a high acidity. Grass doesn't grow to well in that situation.
@@caramonmajere447 Interesting. I always heard that regardless of what the wood is, if you grind it and don't remove the wood chip infested dirt left behind, what happens is that the wood chips start to decay and give off heat in the heat of summer and the grass which grew well in the spring dies. A man down the street who ground a couple stumps has had this problem. Perhaps it is the species of tree, though, as you say. Oddly enough digging them out the biggest problem I have had was getting the yard level afterwards. You throw all the dirt out of the hole and then try to rake it back in, but you end up with high spots. Frustrating.
@@unclematt3 I've done a lot of excavating and stump grinding over the years. Treee stumps are usually 24" diameter or larger, which creates an equal area devoid of soil. Grinding it down 4" - 6" below grade then replacing with good soil usually works. Unless the tree itself injects chemicals into the ground that harms grass; everything goes well. Regarding the process of filling excavated holes. It's not an exact science, but you can get close with proper equipment, mainly a compactor. It ensures the dirt gets above 95% compaction. However, most people don't even have a small plate compactor. My state agencies require 95% compaction for grass areas and >99% compaction for structural areas. If an area doesn't meet the criteria, I must wait up to 6 months for gravity to do its thing. So, long story short, if you cannot mechanically compact your soil, expect to add more in 6 months because gravity will inevitably compact the soil for you.
This is the type of American that used to be....The kind that dont have a whole lot but enjoys lifes simplicity's...The kind of American who stood up and fight when needed for their freedom..The type of American that holds morals and dignity high on their list. God loving simple and true. Thats a real patriot.
@@boraxsopanic2670 ..pretty much..still have hope though. Vote the scumbags out....oh yeah we already tried that and the dems blocked our votes..if men stood up then we could take back our country. Might be time to take to the streets..armed..
One of my father's friends, who was a chemist, used saltpeter solution to soak into the stump - which is an oxidiser used in gunpowder. The stump is the fuel, the oxidiser encouraged it to burn. Apparently worked fine although sadly I didn't get to see the fire.
okay I'll blast it through here making smartass smartass and I'll ask her comments but I got it right I sent here for three days in Oklahoma in the trailer house and had tornadoes talk going over me around me around me over me and I wasn't leaving until I had to cuz my dogs were here and I wasn't going to run if I didn't have to and we're all safe it was wicked for tonight's I deserve to be a smart-ass so don't yell at me please everyone bye-bye the 55-gallon drum does work really well
Ash is pretty hard to dig up so you gotta start digging way back from the stump. Go to a hardware store and pick up one of those big red jacks for $70 bucks (everyone who owns a home needs one). Dig under a root with a shovel so that you can get your jack under it. You may have to use a big chain with your jack. Start jacking the root up until it comes free, then dig under another root & jack it up. Keep doing this to all the major roots until the main stump is free. Don't worry about leaving the rest of the roots in the ground, they will eventually rot away. Another way to grub a stump is with a horse. Go out and buy a horse and harness for plus or minus $2500 bucks. Use a shovel to dig under a main root so that you can wrap a chain around it. Hook the other end of the chain to your horse and get the horse to pull the root out. Keep doing this until you pull out all the main roots and free the stump. Always wear safety equipment, always be careful, & always know what you're doing.
I was thinking the same thing. If the wood is green, I drop a small piece of burning coal into the chimney to help it along but, once it catches, the rocket takes off.
Side note on vegetable oil… If you buy ice cream, read very carefully. If it says “FROZEN DESSERT” in tiny letters in the bottom corner, IT ISNT ICE CREAM, ITS EMULSIFIED VEGETABLE OIL
I just had two stumps ground down to a pile of wood chips 2 feet deep in 20 minutes for $60 today. Fortunately, stump grinding is fairly cheap if you don’t have years to wait.
Years back I drilled holes and spread syrup into the holes in the fall. The syrup sped up the rot and the bugs loved it and ate the stump faster. It was gone the next summer. Any maple or cheap sugary syrup works.
We used to put a metal screen over with legs a burn that bad boy not only we have a little campfire to be yet but it also Cooks our food you sure are smart old man I got respect for you
Acquire an inner tub from an old washing machine, start a small fire on the stump, put the tub over the stump, upside down. That will leave a 4 inch hole on top to drip whatever accelerate you care to use. A 5 gal bucket with a copper line installed close to the bottom, and value to adjust flow, sitting on a table of some kind. You want a steady drip, not a constant flow, and the tubing should go down inside the tub a few inches so the wind, if there is any, won't blow the oil off target. The tub will hold in heat, keep out the rain and wind, and allow you to burn without worry of the fire getting out of control. Will burn a dry stump to ground level in a couple of days, and will burn out the whole tap root if you don't mind filling a 2 foot deep hole.
We had a couple big stumps like that and we just used them for our Burn-pile...a place we burned all our cardboard, paper trash, fallen branches, trimmed branches, unwanted furniture, etc. Couple years later we moved the Burn-pile to another stump. But, we got a few stumps too close to the house to use this Burn-pile method so gotta do something different. We obviously don't live in California where you can't burn nothing without getting in trouble. (I lived there for 60 years.)
I like the wholesome attitude. Can be applied to anything in life . "It can be fun,it's all in the matter of the attitude."
Nearing 30 million views watching a 3 part series documenting a 3 month stump burning! You have restored my faith in mankind! There is hope for our species yet! Thanks!
lmao
Right.
part 3 is mostly watching a bag of cheap charcoal burn. 20 minutes lost forever. yet you cant turn away or not watch it
@@TheRealKoKoBWare It helps slow time...allowing you to live longer!
"Its all a matter of additude" is a great thing to keep in mind. Apply it daily to a million different situations. Thanks Marsh Rat!
Sooo...basically drill a bunch of holes, fill with veg oil then burn a whole bag of charcoal on it for 3 days....my friend, this is GENIUS! Now, if only I knew a way to get rid of a burnt stump that smells like veg oil.
Thank you for taking the time to make a video! Ignore the negative comments.
This guy is awesome ..he .made my day. All the negative "know better" comments... You guys need to smile more...this guy enjoys life
Do I have a stump to remove? No.
Am I about binge this entire series? You're damn straight.
I find it so hard to believe that 10 million people needed to know how to do this. Yet, here I am, one of the 10 million.
Thank you so very much
Excellent video... your a good man to pass down the old ways to the younger people...
Way to many of the old ways have been lost
This is the best ad for hiring a stumper that I’ve ever seen.
I dont even have a stump to remove. I dont have a yard. Why am i here..
Knowledge?
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One of us… one of us
I'm stumped? Why?
Cos u r an egit....
I have done about the same thing but I put honey in the holes and the stump got full of bugs going after the honey and then the big red headed wood peckers went after the bugs they took the stump out. I would get me a cup of coffee in the morning set on the front porch and watch them work
greg hart that is awesome bro. 😎
I'm from Mississippi, this video gets a like, for his voice alone! :)
I love this dude, just a man trying to have fun with life KEEP IT UP MAN!!
No drilling; no oil; just beer! A neighbor removed oak stumps 4 times that size. He built a small fire at the base and placed an old vacuum's exhaust directly on that creating a forge. It took weeks but sitting there with a beer made the time enjoyable.
If you asked this guy how to fix or do anything, I'm 95 percent sure vegetable oil will be involved
Oh by the way does anybody know how to get road tar all off the side of a white car up to the door handles? What's the best method Man I got to find it way to do this don't want to run my car
I tried this about 15 years ago. Slow cooked it, I thought I was brilliant. After a day I could tell the roots below we’re still going. Later that afternoon I had the entire Fire Department at my front door, got a stern talking to about underground gas pockets and gas lines. But it did work :)
Done the same but in less time with no FD at my door.
If I ever see a tree stump that needs moving, I now know. Thanks UA-cam recommendations!
exactly😂😂
For those interested in just killing a stump (making sure the little sprouts stop growing from it) use plain old ordinary table salt. Pour a generous portion of salt over the top of the stump and repeat once after it disappears due to rain or wind. That will make the stump dead.
Did something similar about 20 years back on a buddies farm but instead of using vegetable oil to fill holes we drilled we filled them with black powder. once we had holes filled with powder when got a piece of round dowel that fit tight in holes,cut them to about 1" to 2" then drilled a hole through the dowel to install some cannon fuse. once all holes in stump were plugged with dowel and fused we lite it, jumped on our quads and rode about 100yrds away and about 20sec later that stump was gone and nicely mulched up although it was scattered about a good 30yrds from where stump was. lmfao
This is divine providence. I live in Illinois, and I had to recently cut down 10 dead ashes in my yard, got everything limbed, bucked and split, but I was left with these huge stumps. Thank you sir.
Good luck
I'd leave them for possible morel mushrooms. They like ash stumps.
With a stump that dry I would have poured kerosene/charcoal lighter fluid all over the top and let it soak in good and then lighted it. Generally the heat from the dry wood burning will dry out the moist wood and there is a good chance that the fire will continue to smolder and burn a good ways into the ground as it follows the roots. Stump gone and roots probably gone as well after a few days.
The most entertaining part of this video were the splendid numerous comments! Kept me in stitches 😂
Glad you enjoyed it!
Got rid of one just like that. Skilsaw and an axe. Made multiple cuts boths ways over face of stump, about 1/4" apart. Knock the pieces off, and cut it again. Less than an hour, I had it below ground level.
Thank u!! My parents hv a pine tree stump next to the house. Usu we can use a 55-gal barrel w/ a top & burn it. But it’s WAYYY too close to the house to risk & most stump remover chemicals say burn after treating for 4-6 wks. I’ll tell my sons & hopefully they can take care of this task for their grandparents. What did u use to kill the roots?
@@midlandstribullbabesmtbb309 I live in the SW, so I just cut the water off to it. Eventually they dry up.
I had some stumps like Marsh Rat, but found that after drilling the holes with an electric drill which works better, I filled the holes with saltpeter, or potassium nitrate which I had leftover from an old recipe from making Polish sausage. After 6 months to a year, I took my sledgehammer and pulverized the stumps, and filled the area with dirt & sod I got from another part of my yard,. Takes a little time, but you get some satisfaction and exercise from knocking the stumps apart with almost no cost.
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12 million views on an average joe removing a stump. Hell yeah, my kind of content.
Have to say I found the background sounds so relaxing!
I could just sit in your garden and fall asleep lol!
Glad you enjoyed!
12million views. Maybe removing tree stumps is the key to success on youtube 🤔
At least it's getting to the root of the problem
19 now. almost 20
@@keithw.fletcher3307 that was absolutely awful lmao, i'm sorry no one seen that beautiful comment
I'm going to do a Video on how to REMOVE YOUR INLAWS after Thanksgiving.
It’s 20M SMFH
We used the logs from the tree and built a big old fire on top of that there stump 2 nights later, nuffin left but ash with no sign of the pesky stump. Happy days y'all.
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What an incredible artist and a well made video that lets you share the adventure. Thank you Lviv
Last summer I was inspired by videos like this to burn down stumps with help of drilled holes, oil and gasoline. First I tried with used engine oil but the flame would not stay for long. When I tried adding some gasoline, first it's going all smoothly but not for long. And when I made a huge mistake, there was still one flame going on in hole, I did not noticed it and poured gasoline on stump and instantly I was in flame - synthetical track suit pants and sweater caught the fire almost instantly. I got burned my inner part of thighs, a little bit of wrist and a bit more throat. I did got lucky because plastic canister did not blown up. For good month I was walking like penguin, changing bandages was super painful. After a year there are no sing of burns. Who knows how would it turn out otherwise - burned face or worse (or maybe better) death. So You all be very careful with flammable liquids or You will know a world of hellish pain. Stay safe everybody... and sorry for my bad english.
Sorry for your painful experience. Having worked in the Oil & Gas industry for near 40 years, is the reason I chose veggie oil.
I do not even have a stump in my yard... I just like watching this video haha
lucky you, i have 7 stomps from the previous tenant in my yard >:(
My goodness, I was so enchanted by your voice, accent and the way you speak, that I all forgot about the stump. You may consider applying for some voice-over job in an animated cartoons studio. Little kids would be happy to see a pirate or a father bear speaking like you.
Lol damn the entire south eastern US sounds like this guy. Chill out
I am from SW Ohio. I think he has his tongue firmly in cheek (he's having fun with us). I get the humor...
Cheers :)
I love the way he speaks I'm from oklahoma,lived.in cali,and in missouri,so my accent is different, he talks as smooth whisky and A good cigar
happy yes very happy amen,amen, amen.
I live into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and I had to remove 50 stumps from Maple trees that were planted in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. That were starting to rot at the base of the tree. I had 42 stumps in my 1 acre yard that I talked the grinder guy down to $75 each. His grinder was really cool and had a remote control. I had 8 more that I looked out the window every morning near the woods while brushing my teeth. I took a 1/2 inch brad tip drill bit and a 1950s Craftsman hammer drill and drilled 196 holes 6 inches deep. I then nailed black garbage bags on top of each. This caused the moisture to rise out of the stump due to the heat of the sun on the black bags. After a few months, I went to the local bar in town and got 60 gallons of used fry oil and poured it into each hole. I probably only needed 40 gallons, but it was free. I let it sit all summer and when the leaves fell in the fall and before the snow I lit them up. It worked fabulously. Fast, nope. Basically free, yes. Plus, my wife was not about to agree to spend more "Stump Money" as she calls it just so I didn't have to see them everyday as I brushed my teeth.
Cool
First hole: my bit is dull. Second hole: my battery is dead. Thank you for your honesty, at least. Lol.
:)
When he was done drilling the holes i actually JUST stopped myself from blowing at my monitor to blow the sawdust away! Force of habit i guess :p
Good to see a De Walt bit of kit.
I have the whole set of these tools.
Having built our own house, they have had a good work out.
Great, reliable and efficient stuff.
Thanks for sharing
Wrong
It ain't much but it's honest work.
"EIGHT QUADRANTS?" That's about like "FOUR HALVES," right? LOL - Good video by the way!
I dug around my stump first to let it dry faster, then cut holes in the sides to meet vertical shafts for better airflow and covered my stump with the bottom third of a metal barrel while drying. It still took two days to burn but only needed wood for lighting. I did use the bottom of that metal barrel to reflect back heat and work as a chimney. Best of all, all was told in one paragraph that only took a minute to read! Admittedly, no advertisers paid for my paragraph so “Swamp Rat” has got me there!
My friend has his blasting license. He takes a metal rod and bores a hole under the stump best he can. He puts explosives under the stomp and BOOM, thats the fun way. Easy too!
The longer I live, the more I’m convinced that explosives are the most useful tool for most projects.
please place a democrat as an accelerant on stump before lighting fuse
Drill one hole and put a long Iron pole in it, maybe within 20 years lighting will hit it.
One of my best winters was spent each evening sitting round a series of burning tree stumps in cane chairs with our beer sitting in the snow behind us. By spring the paddock was clear of stumps and there were a lot less tiger snakes around the farm.
i like the way you work!!!
"8 quadrants" Love it!
I saw 'part 1' and changed my mind. I don't want to spend all night on stump removal. Three hours from now it may be part 16.
Thanks for sharing and we'll give it a try. From here in Idaho we owe you a beer!
Sounds great!
My recommendations have been wild lately
You tell everybody you come wildly recommended
Yo bro sane
This is now my second time in 3 years having it recommended.
That can easily create an underground fire and if you live near a forest like me could burn down the whole thing. For people that don't have fire open field and fire as an option: Make use of colder climate!! During the days/nights when things reach negative degrees pour water into the holes. That will make the water freeze, expand and destroy the wood from the inside. It will also rot the wood so you will be able to remove the stump in pieces with an axe afterwords. Can be a slower process since it takes a while but it's the best I could come up with...
thank you so much. i have been looking for weeks on how to remove my yard (its a giant stump, just to be clear). this enormously aided me in my adventure of life. one quick question though... what kind of pen do you recommend to mark the stump? thank you and god bless your kind soul.
23 million views and the video literally shows nothing about stump removal! LOL I hope this guy is laughing all the way to the bank. He could have just said " The best way to remove a stump is to wait 20 years until it rots away". Priceless.
Thought you were going to put a stick of Dynomite in there when I saw you pull out the drill. Now that would be fun!
Marsh rat you wpyld be good to buy the 20v adaptwr for your 18v drill. It sure makes those older dewalt drills run better with the new 20v max batteries.
1:05
"what I like to do is just try to mark it off into quadrants"
*just running a pencil across the stump at seemingly random*
"now it dont gotta be exact."
This is the second time in 2 years that UA-cam has recommended this video. I decided to like it this time around. But look at those stats, 22M views, for a channel with 48k subs.
I watched this video part 1 & part 2 video four times, for some reason. Congratulations on over 40k subscribers, and success!
Thanks again!
Nice video. Anybody else hear that Titmouse singing in the background? Lovely.
I don't know why the hell I watched this: I don't even have trees. But I enjoyed the fatherly kindness of the narrator. I guess I'll watch the other parts.
Vegetable oil?
Dang, I thought this was going to involve long auger bits, dowel pins, Elmer’s glue, Estes model rocket igniters and black powder. 😂 With the hood up on a ‘72 Chevy pickup: “Now, hold my beer and watch this!”
I watch these while taking a dump!
Sorry... my brain locked up when he talked about dividing the stump into "eight quadrants". Did anything important happen after that?
I absolutely love this guy he’s the best
He seems so sweet and kind
I totally got rid of three stumps and their roots in my back yard. I drilled a bunch of 1/2" holes about 1" to 2" deep in no particular pattern and poured in some Stump Remover. The stumps turned into sawdust and left a big hole. Where the roots were, I could trace them because the ground caved in.
How long did the Stump Remover take? I've still a few stumps to take care of and they are too close to a large propane tank. TIA and take care
When this guy started talking.. I knew it was going to be good..
I liked your video and your way of talking. Thank you very much.
You are most welcome
If you dont mind waiting a few years. I hammered 6 copper pennies into a 30 year old hard a rock stump. In 2 years it rotted away. I even got the pennies back.
I didn't use veggie oil, I bought bbq lighter fluid, 3 bottles, soaked the stump with one bottle the first day, second bottle the second day, and on day three, (Saturday) went out at 7 pm, soaked it with half the bottle, then at 8 and finished the bottle and lit it...lol Bonfire!!!! It was great, my fire was bigger than the neighbor's, Justin was mad... I won. :D We make our own fun in the country...
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Had four stumps in the backyard. A huge sycamore stump 26 inches across. Two maples each about 18 inches across, and a mulberry that wasn't that big but was all intertwined with sycamore. Looked at all the easy ways to get them out. Didn't want them ground as the grass never grows right where they are ground. Sighed and spent a summer digging those suckers out. The hole for the sycamore was about seven feet in diameter and about three feet deep as I wanted to get the big roots. My Lord, it was so much work.
If you can get your grinder to go 4" - 6" deep, grass does ok. Unless your dealing with Spruce, Pine, Fir or any tree that creates a high acidity. Grass doesn't grow to well in that situation.
@@caramonmajere447 Interesting. I always heard that regardless of what the wood is, if you grind it and don't remove the wood chip infested dirt left behind, what happens is that the wood chips start to decay and give off heat in the heat of summer and the grass which grew well in the spring dies. A man down the street who ground a couple stumps has had this problem. Perhaps it is the species of tree, though, as you say.
Oddly enough digging them out the biggest problem I have had was getting the yard level afterwards. You throw all the dirt out of the hole and then try to rake it back in, but you end up with high spots. Frustrating.
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I've done a lot of excavating and stump grinding over the years.
Treee stumps are usually 24" diameter or larger, which creates an equal area devoid of soil. Grinding it down 4" - 6" below grade then replacing with good soil usually works. Unless the tree itself injects chemicals into the ground that harms grass; everything goes well.
Regarding the process of filling excavated holes. It's not an exact science, but you can get close with proper equipment, mainly a compactor. It ensures the dirt gets above 95% compaction. However, most people don't even have a small plate compactor.
My state agencies require 95% compaction for grass areas and >99% compaction for structural areas. If an area doesn't meet the criteria, I must wait up to 6 months for gravity to do its thing.
So, long story short, if you cannot mechanically compact your soil, expect to add more in 6 months because gravity will inevitably compact the soil for you.
Best video I have ever watched
Thank you
Who would have predicted 6 years ago that this video would have 23 million views and counting?
23 million tree stumps got removed holy cow
I like his accent. Any gentleman who can handle a hand drill has my respect.
May I suggest a lawn chair a 30-pack of beer and a small stack of firewood and maybe even a Bluetooth radio
"What I like to do is.......mark it off in 8 quadrants." Neat trick if you can do it.
This is actually entertainment to watch hehe. Thanks 🙏
Nice video, and thumbs up. If you don't mind a bit of criticism: You're pushing that drill too hard. Let it do the work.
This is the type of American that used to be....The kind that dont have a whole lot but enjoys lifes simplicity's...The kind of American who stood up and fight when needed for their freedom..The type of American that holds morals and dignity high on their list. God loving simple and true. Thats a real patriot.
thank you
America? It ended 30 years ago. Only a stump remains. :)
@@MarshRat thanks for making this video. I followed and turned on alert,
@@boraxsopanic2670 ..pretty much..still have hope though. Vote the scumbags out....oh yeah we already tried that and the dems blocked our votes..if men stood up then we could take back our country. Might be time to take to the streets..armed..
One of my father's friends, who was a chemist, used saltpeter solution to soak into the stump - which is an oxidiser used in gunpowder. The stump is the fuel, the oxidiser encouraged it to burn. Apparently worked fine although sadly I didn't get to see the fire.
UA-cam's algorithm is so fkn weird, why is this in my recommended
Ripper Roo... Glad I'm not alone!!
yet we're all here so it clearly works.
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Idk
.. but it sounds like you're stumped as well
okay I'll blast it through here making smartass smartass and I'll ask her comments but I got it right I sent here for three days in Oklahoma in the trailer house and had tornadoes talk going over me around me around me over me and I wasn't leaving until I had to cuz my dogs were here and I wasn't going to run if I didn't have to and we're all safe it was wicked for tonight's I deserve to be a smart-ass so don't yell at me please everyone bye-bye the 55-gallon drum does work really well
why am i watching this? i don’t even have a stump
Michael Perrotta good quaranreen
time waster
You never know when it'll come handy.
Idk watched this like 3 times cuz the came in my recommended like 3 times for some reason
The comments definitely make up for it 😂
Ash is pretty hard to dig up so you gotta start digging way back from the stump. Go to a hardware store and pick up one of those big red jacks for $70 bucks (everyone who owns a home needs one). Dig under a root with a shovel so that you can get your jack under it. You may have to use a big chain with your jack. Start jacking the root up until it comes free, then dig under another root & jack it up. Keep doing this to all the major roots until the main stump is free. Don't worry about leaving the rest of the roots in the ground, they will eventually rot away. Another way to grub a stump is with a horse. Go out and buy a horse and harness for plus or minus $2500 bucks. Use a shovel to dig under a main root so that you can wrap a chain around it. Hook the other end of the chain to your horse and get the horse to pull the root out. Keep doing this until you pull out all the main roots and free the stump. Always wear safety equipment, always be careful, & always know what you're doing.
Next time I get a couple weeks off, I'll give it a try.
For the same amount of drilling you could turn the stump into a three burner rocket stove. No wasted oil, and you could cook at least a dozen meals.
I was thinking the same thing. If the wood is green, I drop a small piece of burning coal into the chimney to help it along but, once it catches, the rocket takes off.
Side note on vegetable oil…
If you buy ice cream, read very carefully.
If it says “FROZEN DESSERT” in tiny letters in the bottom corner,
IT ISNT ICE CREAM, ITS EMULSIFIED VEGETABLE OIL
Jeez! That I didn't know.....
the easy way is to get a 1/2 inch drill bit and in the middle drill about 6 to 8 inches down . pack it with flash powder and light a fuse .
I just had two stumps ground down to a pile of wood chips 2 feet deep in 20 minutes for $60 today. Fortunately, stump grinding is fairly cheap if you don’t have years to wait.
Did you hire a company to grind your stumps
Years back I drilled holes and spread syrup into the holes in the fall. The syrup sped up the rot and the bugs loved it and ate the stump faster. It was gone the next summer. Any maple or cheap sugary syrup works.
Can you have 8 quadrants, or should it be “octants” rather ? Thanks marshrat ❤
I was a math major, not an english major
@@MarshRat haha I bet you can slice a mean pizza too
Well Quad literally means 4, so no you can't have 8 quadrants.
He should set up one of those livecams so we could track it 24/7.
You remind me of my family. Like hanging out with an uncle. Carry on Tio!
You gotta love this. If you don't, you hate humanity.
So to remove a stump left behind after cutting down a tree killed by an Ash Borer, one must _become_ an ash borer....
A happy, drunken ash borer.
We used to put a metal screen over with legs a burn that bad boy not only we have a little campfire to be yet but it also Cooks our food you sure are smart old man I got respect for you
Much simpler way is to drill a 1 in hole12 inches deep and use a 1/4 stick of dynamite.
Tiki torch oil works really good burns a long time.
Acquire an inner tub from an old washing machine, start a small fire on the stump, put the tub over the stump, upside down. That will leave a 4 inch hole on top to drip whatever accelerate you care to use.
A 5 gal bucket with a copper line installed close to the bottom, and value to adjust flow, sitting on a table of some kind. You want a steady drip, not a constant flow, and the tubing should go down inside the tub a few inches so the wind, if there is any, won't blow the oil off target. The tub will hold in heat, keep out the rain and wind, and allow you to burn without worry of the fire getting out of control.
Will burn a dry stump to ground level in a couple of days, and will burn out the whole tap root if you don't mind filling a 2 foot deep hole.
How is it even possible to have 8 quadrants????
Tried this on my mother in law, it worked.
On her or her stump? I'm a bit worried here. ( about your drill) 😃🤔🤗
We had a couple big stumps like that and we just used them for our Burn-pile...a place we burned all our cardboard, paper trash, fallen branches, trimmed branches, unwanted furniture, etc. Couple years later we moved the Burn-pile to another stump. But, we got a few stumps too close to the house to use this Burn-pile method so gotta do something different. We obviously don't live in California where you can't burn nothing without getting in trouble. (I lived there for 60 years.)