I would just tell my kids that the stump was a really nice piece of wood that I was very proud of and to be extremely careful around it otherwise they might damage it. It would be totally destroyed in two days.
I had 2 trees each over 9 metres tall. The stumps were massive. Totally gone within 12 months with my 3kilo bag of epsom salts. The drill holes were deep, (12 inch) l kept topping the holes up with epsom salts and some boiling water every month or so. The entire stumps crumbled away. A year later l emptied a bag of potting mix in the centre of the remaining mulch/rotted stump and planted a large shrub. It's as tall as me now. I also did the same for a neighbour's pine tree. The roots were cracking up the foundations of his brick shed and back garden paving. The trunk on that one was only about 40 cm wide. He saved lots of money by not needing to dig out any roots or restore any foundations. He planted flowers in the "stump" a year later.
Perhaps you need to 'brush up' on your 'drilling technique'. I have found that 'deep penetration' tends to yield the fastest, most reliable, effective and enjoyable results. But hey, that's just what works best for ME!
Get a metal bucket or aluminum trash can. Cut the bottom out. Place on the stump. Drill your holes and then pour Kerosene on the stump and in the holes. Finally, place about eight inches of charcoal in the can and light it up. In a day or two, remove the can, remove the burnt charcoal, and repeat. In no time, the stump is gone.
Some years ago I rented a stump grinder to remove a half-dozen stumps from my back yard. It took approximately five minutes -- or less -- per stump to to get the job done. And they were bigger than the one you have here.
We just rented a stump grinder from home depot and it works beautifully. I did about 20 stumps over the weekend and had no issues at all. Very easy to use and took no time at all. Also some of the stumps were bigger then yours and some were smaller, but still no problems. I recommend renting one.
Cool what size grinder should I get for 120 douglas fir stumps one foot across, but in 2012 and already almost flush to ground. Look as good as the day they were cut straight across.
I was an arborist for over 30 years and the small stump grinders you get at your local rental store is safe and easy to use and would take about five or ten minutes to grind that stump out . A larger commercial grinder would do the job on that stump in thirty seconds .
When I was a kid my dad cut down the old cherry tree in our yard in our small town. He put an old tire on the stump and lit it all with a generous douse of gasoline. Flames shot twenty feet tall with black smoke you could see all over town! A sight to behold! Bonus excitement when the firetrucks showed! If you are bored and longing for attention I highly recommend this procedure!
Some commenters have mentioned saturating the drilled stump with petroleum products and burning it. Obviously they don't live with nearby neighbors or local zoning. If they did they would know how fast that would get your arse dragged into court. This is a good, visually-quiet way of getting the job done without drawing unwelcomed attention.
I have built a small fire on top of the stump, keep adding wood until the whole stump is burned out below the ground. You have to watch it and it takes a couple days depending on the size of your stump.
I just did using a different method few days ago. It was a big lemon tree, still wet and strong. Dig a big hole around the tree. Put some wood and burn it. Blow wind directly to the stump using a pipe so it burns the stump hot and penetrate. Repeated the process again the next day when the stump become very dry and it took less than two hours to completely burn the lowest part which was attached to the soil. Rest just crumbled. Used all the ashes and charcoal to plant a new banana tree on the same place. Im loving it.❤
I just chain saw the stump into 6 and sledge hammer some wedges into the lines I made with chain saw. Helps if you dig around stump to expose the bigger roots and cut through them too.
I'm a retired contractor with about 45 years experience and by far, hands down, the best tool i've ever owned or used (and I've owned and used many!) is a Komatsu PC28 Excavator with a thumb. It makes short work out of removing small to medium sized stumps in about an hour. Larger ones can take a couple hours but not days, weeks, months, or years...I bought a "grey market machine" down in Oregon (no sales taxes) and it's paid for itself many times over. So many uses, i can't even list them all here and best of all, no more back breaking hard ass work!!! The machine does it all and is actually fun!! If you can afford one, you won't be disappointed...guaranteed!!!! (PS. I have 5 acres in Western Washington so it's a God sent!!)
I used this method and it worked. It took two years for the stump to rot out but it did work on an 18-inch stump. Never had any new shoots come up either.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣now that's sooo funny. I bought a tiny ax at Walmart I'm going to hack at the ones my idiot nut case neighbor fenced her yard and left me with a row of hard as hell tree stumps. I hate her rotten guts. 👹💩☠️
I usually just take my chainsaw and cut a grid pattern in the stump about 4 or 5 in deep... then use a sledge to bust it out and cover it with dirt and seed the grass. I have never had an issue with shoots coming up doing that.
I have a similar sized stump and I got rid of it by a dewalt 1.5 inch spade bit with a RYOBI cordless drill. I drilled a total of probably 40 holes and nothing is left above the ground.
I dig around the base to expose as much wood as i can without putting too much effort into it. Then I pile a medium bags worth of charcoal and light it up. When the coals are white hot, i add in some air from my electric leaf blower to give that crucible effect. Stump gone in a few hours.
Actually dug out 2 stumps with my 2 boys. It was hard, chopping roots, going down and under the root ball. Rain! Then pulling it out of the hole with my 4x4 .Not easy. Not done yet. Winching each root ball into the truck. One at a time. 2 trips to the dump. Getting them off the truck! Memories that none of of us will forget. Family time. Gettin to know each other. I recommend digging it out with family help. Awesome. You don't know someone till you dug out a stump together.
Drill just one hole but make it big enough for a stick of dynamite. Then get a stick of dynamite, shove it in the hole and light the fuse. Don't forget to run. Donezo
I put Epsom salt on 50 stumps when I was a kid. Now, I’m in my 80’s, and I’ve got to say, it was a good investment. I look out at a lawn free of any stumps at all.
Drill large holes vertically into the face of the stump and pour in powdered milk. Promotes bacterial rotting. But it takes at least a year before it can be easily dug out. Worked for me.
I came here bc this video had 3.6m views. After viewing, I have some recommendations if you’re here sincerely looking to do this: If diy- dig around the entire stump as deep you desire. Cut the stump in quarters or eighths (like a pie). Carbide saw chain is great for this. Next grab some wedges and a sledge for in between the cuts. Keep driving them down until you start hearing cracks. Now grab a pry bar, and pry like mad! If you don’t have the tools- or a tractor, you can rent a stump grinder, but I’d recommend have several stumps to grind to justify rental cost. At the end of the day- don’t feel “too proud” to get an estimate from a company that does this everyday!
I have had several stumps ground by different companies over the past several years. Every stump that was ground down started to regrow little sprouts after a few months. If you don't remove the roots it will start growing. Also if you use a paddle or spade bit to drill your holes you can make much bigger holes.
Can’t believe how many rude people are commenting, or maybe, sadly I can. You don’t have to watch and you damn sure don’t have to comment, but it seems people just have to be nasty to people these days.
Not so much, I truly appreciate the effort of the video and actually like the video...however, call me lazy or whatever, but I recently rented a stump grinder from an orange big box store for a day...it was $130, I was done in 4 hrs and got almost $50 credited back to my debit card.
I'd like to take the time to thank you for this video series. I may have lost 30min of my life watching it but at least i saved 30 years of my life trying to watch the stump decompose everyday...
I once used a tree stump as a counter to pour gasoline from a large container to a smaller. It was almost 2 feet wide and had predrilled holes as I also used it as a work bench. The stump was roughly 3 months new with live shoots. One day I spilled roughly a half cup gasoline on a stump. Before I was able to clean it up It had absorbed into the wood. I didn't give it a second thought. Within three or four months it turned to something like a paper. I let the mushrooms & grubs eat it up and watched the birds munch on the grubs.... Anyway, it was gone within 5 months. Just thought it was a cool story considering it thrived with additional vegetation & life from its degration. The soil turned black and was incredibly fertile after.
You are correct it works pretty fast One tip is to use auger bits they will pull there way into the stump. II used a corded 1/2 drill and put in 1.5 inch holes in no time. Thanks
Salt block works better like you use for baiting deer or for cattle you can pick them up at the farm and home store for right around $6 just set it right on top you don't have to do anything no drilling of holes nothing just place it on top of your stump and forget about it in a year that stump will be so rotten you'll be able to pull it apart with your bare hands and don't cover it if it rains it melts the salt absorbs into the wood and kills a stump out quicker ...... We do this on our farm when were clearing fields well go through and chainsaw everything down any large stumps will get a salt block will do this in the fall by springtime you'll be able to run a brush hog right through the field
Do ees anything grow in the area after that since you have literally salted the earth? Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) is at least two nutrients (magnesium and sulfur) that can be used by plants, unlike sodium which is extremely toxic to plants. Someone above said stump remover is potassium nitrate and those again, are useable nutrients by plants and other terrestrial soil organisms
All of these videos are sooo entertaining to watch. Spending countless hours, relentless effort, and $$$ on every backwoods, mythical, hillbilly home remedy for something that can be gone in 5 minutes with a Vermeer SC30 stump grinder.
1 1/2 inch spade drill bit. Drill to about 1 foot deep. Add 1 stick of dynamite with a 25 feet fuse.....problem solved. You also get a small pool for the kids afterwards.
Great video , I did same thing but covered stump with tin foil and 1/2 inch holes 3 months later used log splitter and sludge hammer to remove 6 inches below dirt then covered with dirt.
I cut down a large apple tree and drilled holes in the stump and poured in stump remover and covered it with a bucket for a month and then removed the bucket and just dumped some mulch on top. This was good enough to hide the stump in the border/flower bed. After about a year I uncovered it and just kicked at it, some pieces broke apart. I used a long handled hatchet to break it apart some more and was able to just lift the remaining pieces out. I filled in the hole and that's that. It's not a fast method but it's pretty easy.
I know it's a total girlie way, but random stumps are perfect spots for potted plants. I've had a couple unsightly stumps professionally ground up, but if they're kinda out of the way, pretty flowers work for me.
Yea I thought he was exaggerating on the time a stump grinder would take, but for him it’s not practical to use a stump grinder with the stump being in that garden with out majorly disturbing the mulch and plants around the stump I wish he would of used that as a reason rather than timeframe....
I used regular table salt and ice cream salt and it rained often during the 3 months. Tree wasn't a complete stump. It was 6 ft tall stump of a 65 ft tree, but I got rid of it in 3 months. I drilled holes in the tree and put ice cream salt in holes and dug holes around the trunk base and filled with table salt. It started crumbing from the top and the roots.. It never hurt my grass around the tree. In fact I have BlackBerry vines growing there now..
Yep put rock salt on it and the critters will eat it down to nothing. Or out in the woods deer will do it. 1.75 play back speed is too slow. If I made a clever title and watched paint dry would I get any hits? Oh - and tell jokes while watching.
Pine is probably the easiest of them all. In the 50s a neighbor took care of several 4' oak stumps. He built a small fire at their base and set an old Electrolux vacuum discharging creating what amounted to a forge. The next step was critical to his success. He sat watching the glow with a beer in hand. It took many evenings but little effort!!
I did something similar. Took a bit longer, but was cheaper. I bought a block of salt at Southern States, and set it on top of the stump. Deer licked the salt, and the rain slowly melted the block into the stump. Over time, the deer started chewing on the stump to get the salt that they wanted. After a couple of years, there was nothing left of the stump. Total effort: purchased salt block and set it on the stump. All of the lawn around the stump is perfectly fine.
@@carlomezzatesta4659 Nature provides the deer for free, assuming that they frequent your yard. I'll sometimes have five or six in the yard at a time. The block of salt is probably around $10 US.
I have removed five tree stumps. They were all pine and I used a half inch Forsner (Sp) bit. I drilled the holes six inches deep and left the stump to the open air. After two years the stumps have rotten and I was able to pull them apart and level the ground. Sometimes I had to cut the heart of the stump because it would not rot.
Thanks for your effort. I always like to see new ways to get things done. This is a great way for us to get rid of stumps over time that we've had in the pasture for years.
Your on the right track. Take your chainsaw & plunge cut vertically down the center of the stump. THEN, tip the bar back 45 degree about THEN tip the bar forward 45 degrees about. Then extract your chainsaw, turn it 90 degrees & repeat. THEN pour your salt deep into the wounds you just made. ALSO rainwater will gather in the wounds accelerating decomposition. BUT, the best technique is to not have a stump in the ground at all. With the tree standing, wrap a strong towing strap around the trunk as high as you can reach. THEN, hook the other end of the strap to your car or truck or jeep or tractor. Give the strap little tugs. Harder & harder until the tree starts to come with you. DO NOT JUST PUNCH IT!! You will break the strap & parts may go flying & thru your glass or into a bystanders head or whatever. Use caution. Listen for the roots to pop. Eventually the tree will pull over, stump & all. !
The salt will kill it, not that evergreens re-sprout like oak. After it is dead, you are doing a great job of preserving the stump. It is so low to the ground, a foot of grass clippings on top would help it rot a lot faster than just leaving it there. Heck, put a small compost box over the top of it and keep it loaded with goodies that will encourage rot and keep it moist in the summer. It may be too late due to the salt killing any rot bacteria.
Normally I chew on people who criticize people who make these video's but I have to say, you cracked me up. Reason for chewing is it takes work time and energy to try to help others with DIY stuff. Thanks Tex, keep you smart arse jokes coming. Those I can handle.
Great idea but I think I have another tip to make this system better. 1) Drill 1 1/2 inch holes using a Spade Drill Bit. You can only go about 6 to 9 inches deep but this will allow you to hold more Epson Salt in the holes. 2) after drilling the 1 1/2 inch holes get your long drill bit and drill deep inside the middle of the large holes you just created. 3). Use a vacuum to suck up all wood shavings so they don’t go back into these holes since we only want Salt in there anyway. 4) fill each hole with Epson Salt but there will be an air pocket in those holes so put your long drill bit in reverse to help drive and pull all the salt to the very bottom of the holes,... each one! Now you have a reservoir of salt in each of those long deep holes which allows you not to have to check on it so often and will speed up the process by having more salt at the surface.
Honestly just digging down a bit around the trunk and cutting it off there, so you can cover it with soil, is easier, and better for your garden overall, too. The roots act as a form of water storage and, as it decomposes, it releases nutrients into your soil without needing you to add fertilizer.
I appreciate your efforts man but if you’re not gonna I have a stump grinding contractor do it the best free way is to scored up real good with a chainsaw drill a bunch of holes put kerosene in them and make a couple fires. I grind stumps for a living.
Auger bits work very well for drilling large holes in wood quickly. Red dye diesel is far safer and cheaper than any other petroleum-based product. Less risk when lighting.
Dig around it down to about a foot. Split it into quarters with steel wedges and a sledge hammer. Ram a six foot steel crow bar in the separated parts and lever them loose and dig them out. Couple of hours work if that. Works better with dryer stumps, but pine is pretty soft and grainy. Should split easily enough.
My Dad used to do the same thing with saltpetre... after a year or so, he’d light the stump on “fire”... it burnt like a fuse... and took out all the root system as well.
My son remove a huge tree stump in my side yard where I wanted to build a patio. I have to say that it was in Florida's sandy soil though. He built a brick furnace around the stump and burned it out. He used regular bricks and a.few did burst in this process. It only took a couple days to burn it out(have no idea how long it had been there though). While this was burning He used a Sawzall to make cuts in the yard to remove the roots. He did this by make checkerboard pattern cuts that made squares about a ft diameter. We then used a pickaxe and a.rake.to remove the now foot long roots. While this was a lot of work it only took 2 days and about 100.00 worth of blades. Yea, they were the most expensive blade and they dulled real quick cutting in the dirt. I think we used 4 of them in a 300 sq ft area.
I drilled holes in my stump, poured gasoline into the holes, banked it with charcoal and set on fire. I let it burn and when it went out I did it again, 3 times. Stump was gone in a week!
The hole drilling works for a fact. I did it on Elm, Oak, and Pecan tree stumps. It took a year or two, but they rotted out and left holes that I had to fill. Didn't use any salt or anything and didn't cover. I did drill a lot more and larger holes with a spade bit. I pulled what was left of one stump out of the ground and it had the biggest grub worm looking things I have ever seen. They were eating the stump from the bottom. They made me think of the monsters on the movie Tremors.
Saltpeter dropped in predrilled holes will cause the stump to rot then its easier to core it out or burn it by starting a charcoal fire on top or put road flares in the holes.
What you can do is cut a figure H into the center of the stump (with the chain saw). Rainwater will stay in this cut and help fungi grow. You can also look out for slime mold on old stumps and transfer it to the stump in your garden. Without transferring mold the stump will be gone in about three years. If you transfer fungus from an old stump it is gone in about one year.
2:56 I used a unusual method to remove 2 cedar stumps that were approximately 14-16 inches in diameter. The process took about 2 years, at the time I didn’t have dogs. So, I drilled a bunch of holes in the stumps, and soaked it with bacon grease, the liquid from browning ground beef etc. I added the grease whenever I had it. The stumps were literally eaten away by mice…
U should have drilled holes all through the stump...poor the old grease and vegetable oil on it, let it sit for a few hours and then set it on fire....would have burned it our all the way to the ground....(beware of surrounding brush, don't start a forest or brush fire)
Also...be careful using salt to remove vegetation as salt can and will kill vegetation and can stay in the ground for years causing growth to halt until its gone and the ground has been reseeded
It's been four years since you posted. How did it work. I always see people doing this but not showing the results. Or they bury the stump under some dirt. Did the technique work and how long did it take to rot the stump away?
A long-time tree guy in my ares cuts a deep, fairly wide "X" in the center of the stump with the bottom front end of a chainsaw. Took less than a minute vs. much longer drilling all those holes. Then adds the salt. He uses regular Morton's. Later I felled a smaller tree myself and made the X. Sure enough the stump deteriorates over time. Seem to recall it took 1.5 - 2 years but I had no plans for the area near the stump so I just left it to do its thing.
an easier and faster way, is leave six feet of the tree stump, still standing, then cut around the tree and use the weigh of the tree to rip it all out of the ground, by pushing it back n forth
Salt dehydrates anything still growing and changes the pH of the soil. I ground a stump down just like that, with a grinder and the proper attachment. It took me 18 minutes. Then, I sprayed the hole with Round up to keep suckers from coming up from the remaining live roots.
I did exactly the same..but i was used Bitter Salt. Work like a charm.. After that.. just cover the stump with dirt and forget about it. It will simple disapir in a few months.
U can also use charcoal put it on top of trunk light it when the coals turn white cover it with upside down burn barrel it will burn the stump all the way under the ground make sure u have holes in the barrel it slowly cooks away the stump with the white charcoals just like on the grill the flame on the coals dies leaving only the white coals to slowly burn away the stump🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼➿➿➿➿🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼
1" spade drill. Cuts like butter. Do about 50 holes. Pour a quart of motor oil in them. Let it soak overnight. Then soak with kerosene two or three times. Place charcoal on top. Soak again with kerosene. Light it. That thing will reduce to powdered ash within about twelve hours. Gone! Works like a charm, and all of the chemicals burn away.
What do I do -- I have 120 douglas fir stumps, 1 foot+ wide, already down at ground level. Cut in 2012. I need out so I can use as horse arena footing. Still nice and hard. I have a lot of red diesel.
50 gallon drum. Cut out bottom. Place over stump. Load with wood chips, dry limbs, etc. Light a match. May take a few loads to burn the stump all the way.
The scary thing is that I've burned large logging slash piles over stumps. A winter and rain and snow followed--come spring, I decided to clean up some of the ash piles. The stumps were still smoldering--in wet ground a foot beneath the surface. Those buggers (mostly Doug fir) can burn for months out of sight.
Great job! You could also use motor oil (use the oil that comes from when you change your zero turn) or livestock salt or undiluted round-up. Keep in mind that when you use motor oil or salt, that area will become a dead zone for at least 5 years (dead zone means nothing will grow there)
@@DarkGhostHacker Poke few hole with a drill (about +-1/2" diameter and 2-3" deep). Fill theses hole with table salt and be patient. You can also take a hand saw and cut an horizontal line 1/2" deep and fill it with salt. You can also put a saturated salt - water solution in a plastic bottle and put the offshoot/small green stuff into the bottle and leave it for 2-4 months. The objective is to get the living part of the bark in contact with salt for a long time. Please don't use motor oil. Ps Salt will eventually kill the stump or vine. But once it's dead wood, you will need to find mushroom to decompose it. You can get some soil from your nearby forest. Get the soil close to a decomposing tree. You will likely get mycelium. Put that soil around and on the top of the dead stump, put some water, cover with a dark tarp and it will decompose in about 3-4 years.
For the same effort, i will rake the soil well away from the stump and down a few inches and then cut it off flush and let it rot. Some stumps you can inoculate with edible mushrooms and the stump'll rot quicker and you get the 'shrooms. Lots of info available to match 'shrooms with tree type. For small stumps i use the tip of my saw like a mini stump grinder. The tip grinds fast as the teeth spread open around the end. Caution! that's the same reason for saw kickback, a firm grip and steady footing are a must. But then, I'm a lazy ass and see few good reasons to do lengthy battle with a stump.
My brilliant EXhusband used a chainsaw to cut horizontal and vertical lines on the stump top, then poured diesel fuel on it periodically. After 29 years that old stump is still there. 🤣
OK - I am trying this for the first time. 20+ inch Ash stump. Milwaukee Hole Hawg, 5/16" 16-inch auger bit. Epsom salted it with two bags and 12+ deep holes. Let the waiting game begin.
Most of these statements are really mean and unnecessary. If you can't say anything nice, then don't say it. People don't listen, he said if you are looking for a low cost way, and you are willing to wait, try it, but if you want quick results this is not for you!!! He did not say this was quick!!! If you are not open to suggestions, can I ask why you stopped to look at this video? Makes no sense that you would spend your time looking, or reading, or watching something that you seemingly know the answer to. . Since I seem to be the only one that has more time than money, I'm trying it. I appreciate this low cost, slow method. I'm also banking on 80-90 degree summer weather that could, could help the process; if not, like he said this method is slow. So a bag of Epsom salt for my skin care regiment and a bag for the tree stump. Sounds like a good plan to me versus the rental cost of the stump grinder, that has a time limit on it. Thank you Sir, for telling me about this low cost method.
I agree, people are being quite disrespectful in these comments. I bet they are really mad after dealing with their own stump issues. It’s easy to say rude things when you’re not face-to-face with somebody.
Back when I used to live in New Hampshire my uncle's always used rock salt or made a pipe bomb out of black powder and blew it out. If you use black powder you need a very long fuse and weighted blanket over the stump.
Thanks for sharing. I believe the new drill you bought cost more than what it would have cost to have a landscaping company to grind it out. My landscaper charges $175 per stump. Takes him 20 minutes for small stumps like yours. Plus you don’t poison your soil with all that salt.
I live in the state of Maine ware it freezes in the winter so yes drill your holes and when winter comes and its freezing out poor water in the holes and the stump will brake a part so in the spring it helps the stump rot faster.
I would have used a 3/4” auger bit those tiny holes just seem useless not much salt can fit in those small holes. I bet that salt just clogged up at the top of the hole I just have a sneaking suspicion that’s the case. Now with all that said I greatly appreciate the making video If it works I’m for sure going to try it!
I would just tell my kids that the stump was a really nice piece of wood that I was very proud of and to be extremely careful around it otherwise they might damage it. It would be totally destroyed in two days.
Muther aw God it's been three years and you're still beating him like a rented mule. Desperate altogether, so it is. 😉
Yes and some day it will be theirs
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🤣🤣🤣 I feel you!
I had 2 trees each over 9 metres tall. The stumps were massive. Totally gone within 12 months with my 3kilo bag of epsom salts. The drill holes were deep, (12 inch) l kept topping the holes up with epsom salts and some boiling water every month or so. The entire stumps crumbled away. A year later l emptied a bag of potting mix in the centre of the remaining mulch/rotted stump and planted a large shrub. It's as tall as me now. I also did the same for a neighbour's pine tree. The roots were cracking up the foundations of his brick shed and back garden paving. The trunk on that one was only about 40 cm wide. He saved lots of money by not needing to dig out any roots or restore any foundations. He planted flowers in the "stump" a year later.
Good news... I used Epsom Salt on a stump... I'm happy to say that after 45 years, the stump is almost gone!
Perhaps you need to 'brush up' on your 'drilling technique'. I have found that 'deep penetration' tends to yield the fastest, most reliable, effective and enjoyable results. But hey, that's just what works best for ME!
That's what I'm saying! It isnt epsom salt, it's saltpeter you gotta use.
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JockBaloney Thats what she said.
Some of it is gone! 7/16th of it at a time
Get a metal bucket or aluminum trash can. Cut the bottom out. Place on the stump. Drill your holes and then pour Kerosene on the stump and in the holes. Finally, place about eight inches of charcoal in the can and light it up. In a day or two, remove the can, remove the burnt charcoal, and repeat. In no time, the stump is gone.
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@@prezwick8378 Thanks! Lucky girlfriend!!
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Some years ago I rented a stump grinder to remove a half-dozen stumps from my back yard.
It took approximately five minutes -- or less -- per stump to to get the job done.
And they were bigger than the one you have here.
We just rented a stump grinder from home depot and it works beautifully. I did about 20 stumps over the weekend and had no issues at all. Very easy to use and took no time at all. Also some of the stumps were bigger then yours and some were smaller, but still no problems. I recommend renting one.
Cool what size grinder should I get for 120 douglas fir stumps one foot across, but in 2012 and already almost flush to ground. Look as good as the day they were cut straight across.
How much did the rental cost?
Anya Getman Just use the Epsom salt technique for those 120 stumps!
I was an arborist for over 30 years and the small stump grinders you get at your local rental store is safe and easy to use and would take about five or ten minutes to grind that stump out . A larger commercial grinder would do the job on that stump in thirty seconds .
What size grinder would be most efficient for me?. I have 120 douglas fir, 1 ft across cut in 2012, flush to gnd already.
Will a small stump grinder fit in a Honda Fit?
When I was a kid my dad cut down the old cherry tree in our yard in our small town. He put an old tire on the stump and lit it all with a generous douse of gasoline. Flames shot twenty feet tall with black smoke you could see all over town! A sight to behold! Bonus excitement when the firetrucks showed! If you are bored and longing for attention I highly recommend this procedure!
Some commenters have mentioned saturating the drilled stump with petroleum products and burning it. Obviously they don't live with nearby neighbors or local zoning. If they did they would know how fast that would get your arse dragged into court. This is a good, visually-quiet way of getting the job done without drawing unwelcomed attention.
I have built a small fire on top of the stump, keep adding wood until the whole stump is burned out below the ground. You have to watch it and it takes a couple days depending on the size of your stump.
This worked for me also
I just did using a different method few days ago. It was a big lemon tree, still wet and strong. Dig a big hole around the tree. Put some wood and burn it. Blow wind directly to the stump using a pipe so it burns the stump hot and penetrate. Repeated the process again the next day when the stump become very dry and it took less than two hours to completely burn the lowest part which was attached to the soil. Rest just crumbled.
Used all the ashes and charcoal to plant a new banana tree on the same place. Im loving it.❤
Cool.
I just chain saw the stump into 6 and sledge hammer some wedges into the lines I made with chain saw. Helps if you dig around stump to expose the bigger roots and cut through them too.
Reminds me of saving money by burning a woodstove. Only expense was the stove, 300.00 chainsaw and a new truck to haul the wood.
I'm a retired contractor with about 45 years experience and by far, hands down, the best tool i've ever owned or used (and I've owned and used many!) is a Komatsu PC28 Excavator with a thumb. It makes short work out of removing small to medium sized stumps in about an hour. Larger ones can take a couple hours but not days, weeks, months, or years...I bought a "grey market machine" down in Oregon (no sales taxes) and it's paid for itself many times over. So many uses, i can't even list them all here and best of all, no more back breaking hard ass work!!! The machine does it all and is actually fun!! If you can afford one, you won't be disappointed...guaranteed!!!! (PS. I have 5 acres in Western Washington so it's a God sent!!)
I used this method and it worked. It took two years for the stump to rot out but it did work on an 18-inch stump. Never had any new shoots come up either.
You need to put your channel in your will so future generations can film the updates.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣now that's sooo funny. I bought a tiny ax at Walmart I'm going to hack at the ones my idiot nut case neighbor fenced her yard and left me with a row of hard as hell tree stumps. I hate her rotten guts. 👹💩☠️
All these stump experts in the comments who came to watch a video about stump removal when they already knew everything...
Right? Wild shit 😂😂😂😂
I came for quick advice, and stayed for the comments 😄😎
I usually just take my chainsaw and cut a grid pattern in the stump about 4 or 5 in deep... then use a sledge to bust it out and cover it with dirt and seed the grass. I have never had an issue with shoots coming up doing that.
I cut a tree of heaven and now the bastard sprouted 15 shoots! Now what?
My husband would dig down around the stump take the stump down below ground level then cover with soil. They never grew back no drilling
I cut a small maple below surface too. 3 years later no growth
I have a similar sized stump and I got rid of it by a dewalt 1.5 inch spade bit with a RYOBI cordless drill. I drilled a total of probably 40 holes and nothing is left above the ground.
I dig around the base to expose as much wood as i can without putting too much effort into it. Then I pile a medium bags worth of charcoal and light it up. When the coals are white hot, i add in some air from my electric leaf blower to give that crucible effect. Stump gone in a few hours.
Smart idea!!
Actually dug out 2 stumps with my 2 boys. It was hard, chopping roots, going down and under the root ball. Rain! Then pulling it out of the hole with my 4x4 .Not easy. Not done yet. Winching each root ball into the truck. One at a time. 2 trips to the dump. Getting them off the truck! Memories that none of of us will forget. Family time. Gettin to know each other. I recommend digging it out with family help. Awesome. You don't know someone till you dug out a stump together.
I had a tree removed in my backyard. The tree guy used this technique on the stump. It worked!
Drill just one hole but make it big enough for a stick of dynamite. Then get a stick of dynamite, shove it in the hole and light the fuse. Don't forget to run. Donezo
We should follow you for more DIY tips!
I put Epsom salt on 50 stumps when I was a kid. Now, I’m in my 80’s, and I’ve got to say, it was a good investment. I look out at a lawn free of any stumps at all.
Drill large holes vertically into the face of the stump and pour in powdered milk. Promotes bacterial rotting. But it takes at least a year before it can be easily dug out. Worked for me.
Buttermilk might encourage moss too, speed up the rot.
Now wondering if used kitty litter would work.
I came here bc this video had 3.6m views. After viewing, I have some recommendations if you’re here sincerely looking to do this:
If diy- dig around the entire stump as deep you desire. Cut the stump in quarters or eighths (like a pie). Carbide saw chain is great for this. Next grab some wedges and a sledge for in between the cuts. Keep driving them down until you start hearing cracks. Now grab a pry bar, and pry like mad!
If you don’t have the tools- or a tractor, you can rent a stump grinder, but I’d recommend have several stumps to grind to justify rental cost.
At the end of the day- don’t feel “too proud” to get an estimate from a company that does this everyday!
I have had several stumps ground by different companies over the past several years. Every stump that was ground down started to regrow little sprouts after a few months. If you don't remove the roots it will start growing. Also if you use a paddle or spade bit to drill your holes you can make much bigger holes.
I bought a drill bit that was the same diameter as the tree stump works great
Could probably find oil with it
Can’t believe how many rude people are commenting, or maybe, sadly I can. You don’t have to watch and you damn sure don’t have to comment, but it seems people just have to be nasty to people these days.
Not so much, I truly appreciate the effort of the video and actually like the video...however, call me lazy or whatever, but I recently rented a stump grinder from an orange big box store for a day...it was $130, I was done in 4 hrs and got almost $50 credited back to my debit card.
Humor. Profane ugly and angry posts aren't nearly as fun as humor.
I'd like to take the time to thank you for this video series. I may have lost 30min of my life watching it but at least i saved 30 years of my life trying to watch the stump decompose everyday...
I once used a tree stump as a counter to pour gasoline from a large container to a smaller. It was almost 2 feet wide and had predrilled holes as I also used it as a work bench. The stump was roughly 3 months new with live shoots. One day I spilled roughly a half cup gasoline on a stump. Before I was able to clean it up It had absorbed into the wood. I didn't give it a second thought. Within three or four months it turned to something like a paper. I let the mushrooms & grubs eat it up and watched the birds munch on the grubs.... Anyway, it was gone within 5 months. Just thought it was a cool story considering it thrived with additional vegetation & life from its degration. The soil turned black and was incredibly fertile after.
What a happy “accident” hope it doesn’t happen to me later
Should've struck a match.
😉
You are correct it works pretty fast One tip is to use auger bits they will pull there way into the stump. II used a corded 1/2 drill and put in 1.5 inch holes in no time. Thanks
Poured a ton on mine yesterday and this morning I had a stump jumping on the neighborhood cars. Made that stump go crazy
Salt block works better like you use for baiting deer or for cattle you can pick them up at the farm and home store for right around $6 just set it right on top you don't have to do anything no drilling of holes nothing just place it on top of your stump and forget about it in a year that stump will be so rotten you'll be able to pull it apart with your bare hands and don't cover it if it rains it melts the salt absorbs into the wood and kills a stump out quicker ...... We do this on our farm when were clearing fields well go through and chainsaw everything down any large stumps will get a salt block will do this in the fall by springtime you'll be able to run a brush hog right through the field
Do ees anything grow in the area after that since you have literally salted the earth? Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) is at least two nutrients (magnesium and sulfur) that can be used by plants, unlike sodium which is extremely toxic to plants. Someone above said stump remover is potassium nitrate and those again, are useable nutrients by plants and other terrestrial soil organisms
All of these videos are sooo entertaining to watch. Spending countless hours, relentless effort, and $$$ on every backwoods, mythical, hillbilly home remedy for something that can be gone in 5 minutes with a Vermeer SC30 stump grinder.
@@InterestedTuber Huh?...
$195 for 8 hours rental.
Decimate every stump in yours and neighbor's yard for under 2 hundy.
Done.
@@j.b.7525 $195 to remove a stump that's not that big of a deal? I bet you're rich. Not! lol
1 1/2 inch spade drill bit.
Drill to about 1 foot deep.
Add 1 stick of dynamite with a 25 feet fuse.....problem solved.
You also get a small pool for the kids afterwards.
😂🤣small pool sized whole reminds me of bugs bunny cartoons. Dynamite will always be entertaining 😮😲kapow!!!!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Great video , I did same thing but covered stump with tin foil and 1/2 inch holes 3 months later used log splitter and sludge hammer to remove 6 inches below dirt then covered with dirt.
I cut down a large apple tree and drilled holes in the stump and poured in stump remover and covered it with a bucket for a month and then removed the bucket and just dumped some mulch on top.
This was good enough to hide the stump in the border/flower bed. After about a year I uncovered it and just kicked at it, some pieces broke apart. I used a long handled hatchet to break it apart some more and was able to just lift the remaining pieces out.
I filled in the hole and that's that. It's not a fast method but it's pretty easy.
I know it's a total girlie way, but random stumps are perfect spots for potted plants. I've had a couple unsightly stumps professionally ground up, but if they're kinda out of the way, pretty flowers work for me.
wow, why does everyone need to be so mean? he's being helpful. if you don't like it, you certainly don't have to watch it.
They are joking
Actually rented a stump removal grinder and had it done in less than half an hour
Try that on a 60" diameter stump.
Yea I thought he was exaggerating on the time a stump grinder would take, but for him it’s not practical to use a stump grinder with the stump being in that garden with out majorly disturbing the mulch and plants around the stump I wish he would of used that as a reason rather than timeframe....
I used regular table salt and ice cream salt and it rained often during the 3 months. Tree wasn't a complete stump. It was 6 ft tall stump of a 65 ft tree, but I got rid of it in 3 months. I drilled holes in the tree and put ice cream salt in holes and dug holes around the trunk base and filled with table salt. It started crumbing from the top and the roots..
It never hurt my grass around the tree. In fact I have BlackBerry vines growing there now..
Yep put rock salt on it and the critters will eat it down to nothing. Or out in the woods deer will do it. 1.75 play back speed is too slow. If I made a clever title and watched paint dry would I get any hits? Oh - and tell jokes while watching.
Pine is probably the easiest of them all. In the 50s a neighbor took care of several 4' oak stumps. He built a small fire at their base and set an old Electrolux vacuum discharging creating what amounted to a forge. The next step was critical to his success. He sat watching the glow with a beer in hand. It took many evenings but little effort!!
I had four tree (around 8 inch across) stumps did the Epsom salt trick. Four years later the stumps had rotted away down to below ground level.
I did something similar. Took a bit longer, but was cheaper. I bought a block of salt at Southern States, and set it on top of the stump. Deer licked the salt, and the rain slowly melted the block into the stump. Over time, the deer started chewing on the stump to get the salt that they wanted. After a couple of years, there was nothing left of the stump. Total effort: purchased salt block and set it on the stump. All of the lawn around the stump is perfectly fine.
I will try that how much will two deers cost
@@carlomezzatesta4659 Nature provides the deer for free, assuming that they frequent your yard. I'll sometimes have five or six in the yard at a time. The block of salt is probably around $10 US.
I have removed five tree stumps. They were all pine and I used a half inch Forsner (Sp) bit. I drilled the holes six inches deep and left the stump to the open air. After two years the stumps have rotten and I was able to pull them apart and level the ground. Sometimes I had to cut the heart of the stump because it would not rot.
Thanks for your effort. I always like to see new ways to get things done. This is a great way for us to get rid of stumps over time that we've had in the pasture for years.
I dont think I'd use it in a pasture that holds animals...they might think it's a Salt Lick ...and Ice Melt might be Toxic for your animals
Your on the right track. Take your chainsaw & plunge cut vertically down the center
of the stump. THEN, tip the bar back 45 degree about THEN tip the bar forward
45 degrees about. Then extract your chainsaw, turn it 90 degrees & repeat. THEN
pour your salt deep into the wounds you just made. ALSO rainwater will gather
in the wounds accelerating decomposition.
BUT, the best technique is to not have a stump in the ground at all. With the tree
standing, wrap a strong towing strap around the trunk as high as you can reach.
THEN, hook the other end of the strap to your car or truck or jeep or tractor. Give
the strap little tugs. Harder & harder until the tree starts to come with you. DO NOT
JUST PUNCH IT!! You will break the strap & parts may go flying & thru your glass or
into a bystanders head or whatever. Use caution. Listen for the roots to pop. Eventually
the tree will pull over, stump & all.
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Guys blaming a perfectly fine drill for he’s ineptitude. Encouraging a chainsaw technique he’ll chop he’s legs off
Think this will work with a mulberry tree??? The roots are crazy strong.
why am i watching this. i live in an apartment in the city
cos yu hate yur life ?
Because city life sucks and you want to move
Because educating oneself is always a good thing, no matter what it is...
always a good thing ?
Because your life is stomped in the city
I used Epsom salts and it's great.
how does epsom salt do a better job than pouring water down the holes in the dead of winter? expanding ice would tear the stump apart pretty good.
I have multiple stumps from these river trees, and couple fruit, and pine. no hurry, this was very helpful, thank you. God bless
The salt will kill it, not that evergreens re-sprout like oak. After it is dead, you are doing a great job of preserving the stump. It is so low to the ground, a foot of grass clippings on top would help it rot a lot faster than just leaving it there. Heck, put a small compost box over the top of it and keep it loaded with goodies that will encourage rot and keep it moist in the summer. It may be too late due to the salt killing any rot bacteria.
Dig around stump. Wash real good with hose . Chainsaw off put back soil overseed. keep mowed.
THANK YOU!!! I can't think of a better way to preserve a stump and protect it from decay!
You can find a beautiful sculpture at a garden center and put it on top of the stump or of big flower pot with nice flowers, they look great
Normally I chew on people who criticize people who make these video's but I have to say, you cracked me up. Reason for chewing is it takes work time and energy to try to help others with DIY stuff. Thanks Tex, keep you smart arse jokes coming. Those I can handle.
@@adriankap2978 FINALLY someone with a sense of humor--though it's also fun when people take me seriously.
Hahaha
Great idea but I think I have another tip to make this system better. 1) Drill 1 1/2 inch holes using a Spade Drill Bit. You can only go about 6 to 9 inches deep but this will allow you to hold more Epson Salt in the holes. 2) after drilling the 1 1/2 inch holes get your long drill bit and drill deep inside the middle of the large holes you just created. 3). Use a vacuum to suck up all wood shavings so they don’t go back into these holes since we only want Salt in there anyway. 4) fill each hole with Epson Salt but there will be an air pocket in those holes so put your long drill bit in reverse to help drive and pull all the salt to the very bottom of the holes,... each one! Now you have a reservoir of salt in each of those long deep holes which allows you not to have to check on it so often and will speed up the process by having more salt at the surface.
Honestly just digging down a bit around the trunk and cutting it off there, so you can cover it with soil, is easier, and better for your garden overall, too. The roots act as a form of water storage and, as it decomposes, it releases nutrients into your soil without needing you to add fertilizer.
I appreciate your efforts man but if you’re not gonna I have a stump grinding contractor do it the best free way is to scored up real good with a chainsaw drill a bunch of holes put kerosene in them and make a couple fires. I grind stumps for a living.
Auger bits work very well for drilling large holes in wood quickly.
Red dye diesel is far safer and cheaper than any other petroleum-based product. Less risk when lighting.
Dig around it down to about a foot. Split it into quarters with steel wedges and a sledge hammer. Ram a six foot steel crow bar in the separated parts and lever them loose and dig them out. Couple of hours work if that. Works better with dryer stumps, but pine is pretty soft and grainy. Should split easily enough.
That's great! THANK YOU!
Use a chainsaw to quarter the top first, then wedges.
Drill holes and fill with veggie oil let it soak a few days and light it on fire
Deep-fried stump sticks.
My Dad used to do the same thing with saltpetre... after a year or so, he’d light the stump on “fire”... it burnt like a fuse... and took out all the root system as well.
They gave us saltpeter in boot camp to suppress our sex drive
@@saricomey889 😂😂😂
Yeah, I heard that!
Also makes gunpowder.... 🤔🤪
My son remove a huge tree stump in my side yard where I wanted to build a patio. I have to say that it was in Florida's sandy soil though. He built a brick furnace around the stump and burned it out. He used regular bricks and a.few did burst in this process. It only took a couple days to burn it out(have no idea how long it had been there though). While this was burning He used a Sawzall to make cuts in the yard to remove the roots. He did this by make checkerboard pattern cuts that made squares about a ft diameter. We then used a pickaxe and a.rake.to remove the now foot long roots. While this was a lot of work it only took 2 days and about 100.00 worth of blades. Yea, they were the most expensive blade and they dulled real quick cutting in the dirt. I think we used 4 of them in a 300 sq ft area.
1st Commandment of DIY UA-cams
Thou shalt not post a video that does not show results.
I totally agree! WTH?
Good excuse to buy that new Dewalt drill you always wanted. 😂
I drilled holes in my stump, poured gasoline into the holes, banked it with charcoal and set on fire. I let it burn and when it went out I did it again, 3 times. Stump was gone in a week!
What's mad funny... Is that ALL of the DIY stump removal guides wind up having you burn the dam thing in the end! 🤣🤣
Thats what I saw someone else do too.
@@dcronan583 by drilling the stump and banking it with charcoal, how do you think I got rid of the stump??????
The hole drilling works for a fact. I did it on Elm, Oak, and Pecan tree stumps. It took a year or two, but they rotted out and left holes that I had to fill. Didn't use any salt or anything and didn't cover. I did drill a lot more and larger holes with a spade bit. I pulled what was left of one stump out of the ground and it had the biggest grub worm looking things I have ever seen. They were eating the stump from the bottom. They made me think of the monsters on the movie Tremors.
Lloyd Prunier so no chemicals or anything? U just drilled? How deep and what width spade bit?? How long do it take??
Lloyd Prunier :
Saltpeter dropped in predrilled holes will cause the stump to rot then its easier to core it out or burn it by starting a charcoal fire on top or put road flares in the holes.
What you can do is cut a figure H into the center of the stump (with the chain saw). Rainwater will stay in this cut and help fungi grow. You can also look out for slime mold on old stumps and transfer it to the stump in your garden. Without transferring mold the stump will be gone in about three years. If you transfer fungus from an old stump it is gone in about one year.
I made a keyhole hugelculture bed on top of my tree stump. grew cabbage and collards and am now planting carrots.
Grand Negus
Yeah how old...? I love this idea.!
What if I plant radish and tomato instead? 😎
2:56 I used a unusual method to remove 2 cedar stumps that were approximately 14-16 inches in diameter. The process took about 2 years, at the time I didn’t have dogs. So, I drilled a bunch of holes in the stumps, and soaked it with bacon grease, the liquid from browning ground beef etc. I added the grease whenever I had it. The stumps were literally eaten away by mice…
U should have drilled holes all through the stump...poor the old grease and vegetable oil on it, let it sit for a few hours and then set it on fire....would have burned it our all the way to the ground....(beware of surrounding brush, don't start a forest or brush fire)
Also...be careful using salt to remove vegetation as salt can and will kill vegetation and can stay in the ground for years causing growth to halt until its gone and the ground has been reseeded
So your method attracts rodents.
It's been four years since you posted. How did it work. I always see people doing this but not showing the results. Or they bury the stump under some dirt. Did the technique work and how long did it take to rot the stump away?
It doesn't. Read my comment above.
This is exactly why he never posted again. Total b/s.
I've poured buttermilk on tree stumps. This has worked on most of my stumps. I don't have heavy tools.
A long-time tree guy in my ares cuts a deep, fairly wide "X" in the center of the stump with the bottom front end of a chainsaw. Took less than a minute vs. much longer drilling all those holes. Then adds the salt. He uses regular Morton's. Later I felled a smaller tree myself and made the X. Sure enough the stump deteriorates over time. Seem to recall it took 1.5 - 2 years but I had no plans for the area near the stump so I just left it to do its thing.
@5:18
"Five to six inches isn't going to cut it."
Thats what she said. -Michael Scott
an easier and faster way, is leave six feet of the tree stump, still standing, then cut around the tree and use the weigh of the tree to rip it all out of the ground, by pushing it back n forth
An arborist told me to use Borax laundry detergent in the holes. I haven't tried it yet but plan to tomorrow. We'll see...
Any word? How's it working?
We've gotta know!
@@kellysiefkas9595 Apparently it was a clean cut.
Salt dehydrates anything still growing and changes the pH of the soil. I ground a stump down just like that, with a grinder and the proper attachment. It took me 18 minutes. Then, I sprayed the hole with Round up to keep suckers from coming up from the remaining live roots.
I did exactly the same..but i was used Bitter Salt. Work like a charm.. After that.. just cover the stump with dirt and forget about it. It will simple disapir in a few months.
U can also use charcoal put it on top of trunk light it when the coals turn white cover it with upside down burn barrel it will burn the stump all the way under the ground make sure u have holes in the barrel it slowly cooks away the stump with the white charcoals just like on the grill the flame on the coals dies leaving only the white coals to slowly burn away the stump🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼➿➿➿➿🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼🚼
Does not work
It’s been three years, do you have a follow up video showing the results?
no, he's still talking about this stump.
1" spade drill. Cuts like butter. Do about 50 holes. Pour a quart of motor oil in them. Let it soak overnight. Then soak with kerosene two or three times. Place charcoal on top. Soak again with kerosene. Light it. That thing will reduce to powdered ash within about twelve hours. Gone!
Works like a charm, and all of the chemicals burn away.
What do I do -- I have 120 douglas fir stumps, 1 foot+ wide, already down at ground level. Cut in 2012. I need out so I can use as horse arena footing. Still nice and hard. I have a lot of red diesel.
Jack Sutherland, That was more usefull than the whole video
Anya Getman
There is also a guy on UA-cam that uses a 50 gallon barrel to burn the stumps. The barrels can be found free on Craigslist
@@anyagetman8596 You rent a bulldozer and rip them out if you have that many.
50 gallon drum. Cut out bottom. Place over stump. Load with wood chips, dry limbs, etc. Light a match. May take a few loads to burn the stump all the way.
The scary thing is that I've burned large logging slash piles over stumps. A winter and rain and snow followed--come spring, I decided to clean up some of the ash piles. The stumps were still smoldering--in wet ground a foot beneath the surface. Those buggers (mostly Doug fir) can burn for months out of sight.
Great job! You could also use motor oil (use the oil that comes from when you change your zero turn) or livestock salt or undiluted round-up. Keep in mind that when you use motor oil or salt, that area will become a dead zone for at least 5 years (dead zone means nothing will grow there)
Motor oil in the soil... Merica strike again!
Just use table salt (NaCl). You can get a 40lbs bag on pool supply under 5$
How much salt do you use?
@@DarkGhostHacker Poke few hole with a drill (about +-1/2" diameter and 2-3" deep). Fill theses hole with table salt and be patient.
You can also take a hand saw and cut an horizontal line 1/2" deep and fill it with salt.
You can also put a saturated salt - water solution in a plastic bottle and put the offshoot/small green stuff into the bottle and leave it for 2-4 months.
The objective is to get the living part of the bark in contact with salt for a long time.
Please don't use motor oil.
Ps Salt will eventually kill the stump or vine. But once it's dead wood, you will need to find mushroom to decompose it. You can get some soil from your nearby forest. Get the soil close to a decomposing tree. You will likely get mycelium. Put that soil around and on the top of the dead stump, put some water, cover with a dark tarp and it will decompose in about 3-4 years.
For the same effort, i will rake the soil well away from the stump and down a few inches and then cut it off flush and let it rot. Some stumps you can inoculate with edible mushrooms and the stump'll rot quicker and you get the 'shrooms. Lots of info available to match 'shrooms with tree type. For small stumps i use the tip of my saw like a mini stump grinder. The tip grinds fast as the teeth spread open around the end. Caution! that's the same reason for saw kickback, a firm grip and steady footing are a must. But then, I'm a lazy ass and see few good reasons to do lengthy battle with a stump.
My brilliant EXhusband used a chainsaw to cut horizontal and vertical lines on the stump top, then poured diesel fuel on it periodically. After 29 years that old stump is still there. 🤣
He forgot the fire
for drilling holes in stumps, I used a spade bit. makes a larger hole.
That was my thought, why not use a paddle bit? He'd have bigger holes.
I used Snow Melt instead of Eosom salt , it worked great
OK - I am trying this for the first time. 20+ inch Ash stump. Milwaukee Hole Hawg, 5/16" 16-inch auger bit. Epsom salted it with two bags and 12+ deep holes. Let the waiting game begin.
I use melting salt for ice and snow. It works really good. No need to cover the stump. It get soft within few months. Just pour it on the stump
How big was our stump and what kind of tree was it?
did you drill holes in the stump first or no ?
Most of these statements are really mean and unnecessary. If you can't say anything nice, then don't say it. People don't listen, he said if you are looking for a low cost way, and you are willing to wait, try it, but if you want quick results this is not for you!!! He did not say this was quick!!! If you are not open to suggestions, can I ask why you stopped to look at this video? Makes no sense that you would spend your time looking, or reading, or watching something that you seemingly know the answer to.
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Since I seem to be the only one that has more time than money, I'm trying it. I appreciate this low cost, slow method. I'm also banking on 80-90 degree summer weather that could, could help the process; if not, like he said this method is slow. So a bag of Epsom salt for my skin care regiment and a bag for the tree stump. Sounds like a good plan to me versus the rental cost of the stump grinder, that has a time limit on it. Thank you Sir, for telling me about this low cost method.
Exactly. None of these people watched the video they just saw the title and bagged on it. Use mineral spirits
Lol. Enjoy your stump.
I agree, people are being quite disrespectful in these comments. I bet they are really mad after dealing with their own stump issues. It’s easy to say rude things when you’re not face-to-face with somebody.
So did it work or not?
Back when I used to live in New Hampshire my uncle's always used rock salt or made a pipe bomb out of black powder and blew it out. If you use black powder you need a very long fuse and weighted blanket over the stump.
Thanks for sharing. I believe the new drill you bought cost more than what it would have cost to have a landscaping company to grind it out. My landscaper charges $175 per stump. Takes him 20 minutes for small stumps like yours. Plus you don’t poison your soil with all that salt.
John S yes but he keeps the drill for life and the knowledge to do the next job!
As he said, Epsom Salt is good for the soil...which is true, excellent for your tomatoes.
Hope a stump grinder works on a Crepe Myrtle stump!!! Or trees that sucker badly after cut down.
I live in the state of Maine ware it freezes in the winter so yes drill your holes and when winter comes and its freezing out poor water in the holes and the stump will brake a part so in the spring it helps the stump rot faster.
Will Epson salt ruin the soil to plant something in the same spot? I don't want to ruin my soil
Epson salt is actually magnesium.. I'm sure to much of anything wouldn't be good for plants but salts the worst for plants..
@@jerryouderkirk6541 Epsom salt is plant food
Home depot has a stump grinder that is beffy and powerful enough to grind that stump in 10 mins
I just rented one for 4 hours for 270$
@@ibrax5 not a bad idea but im not spending 20,000 $ plus on a machine to use it once
I’m no expert but just a thought... might have been better to inject the wood with mushroom of your choice spores?
I would have used a 3/4” auger bit those tiny holes just seem useless not much salt can fit in those small holes. I bet that salt just clogged up at the top of the hole I just have a sneaking suspicion that’s the case. Now with all that said I greatly appreciate the making video If it works I’m for sure going to try it!