Stump Disposal ???

[hr3]

Just finished dropping next years fire wood.. In a few weeks I'll be putting on the BH and removing the stumps.. The trees were on the edge of my pond and 2 of the trees were quite big,, What I was wondering was would it hurt to roll the 2 big ones into the pond,,, The pond is about 30' wide and 60' long by 20' deep ??? What do you think???

 

[MikeD74T]

Stumps in the pond would make a great place to store unused lures !!! MikeD74T

 

[JB4310]

And will be there for the next 30 years or more!

Stumps are a nuisance. Around here you can't even bring them to the vegetation dump. You can't bury them on a construction site, you can bury concrete and pavement rubble but not a stump.
I see huge trailers on some sites and they are trucking them out, to where I have no clue, maybe the stump dump.

Can you burn them?

JB

 

[dave1949]

I don't think I would roll them into the pond either. If you want fish cover or something like that, medium sized limbs with branches would be a better choice.

Stumps get buried over here. Just pick a spot you never want to build on or use for a lane or driveway. If you pack them in good, it will be a long long time before they rot and cause a slump. At least 30 years I have been told. Even if they would rot, a bucket or two of fill will take care of it.
Dave.

 

[Zick]

And will be there for the next 30 years or more!

Stumps are a nuisance. Around here you can't even bring them to the vegetation dump. You can't bury them on a construction site, you can bury concrete and pavement rubble but not a stump.
I see huge trailers on some sites and they are trucking them out, to where I have no clue, maybe the stump dump.

Can you burn them?

JB

That's what I've done. Sure it takes a while (about 3-5 bon fires) but it's all in good fun.

 

[DarrylH20]

Around here they haul them to a place that chips them then they haul the chips to burn them in the power plant. You can bring them there but they charge you.

 

[EddieWalker]

I used to dig up stumps, but then I learned how much faster and easier it is to take out the tree with the stump all at once. Smaller hole and the stump comes out cleaner. Then it's out in the open when you cut up the log, and it burns right up with the branches.

If I find a stump now, I either dig it up and leave it in the burn pile until it's gone, or bury it deeper where it is.

In my area, there is a big tub grinder that the city, county and I imagine others, bring stumps to. They have massive mountains of the mulch that is created from grinding up those stumps. I saw one stump in the back of a dump truck that was too big to fit in there and I guess, heavy enough not to fall out. It was massive!!!!

If you dig them up, can you load them and haul them if you can find a place that takes them? I don't havey any way to do this, so I just burn and burn and burn some more. LOL

Eddie

 

[hr3]

Eddie,, I will be trying your method on one of the big ones,, Digging the the root system out then pulling it over,, I can dig a hole and just put them in the ground where they are I guess,,, I only have a 7610 and I know I can't lift the 2 of them...

 

[tommu56]

Im in eddies camp dig a < around the tree and push them over then cut them up its a lot easier.
rent an bigger track hoe excavator for a day lay them over cur them up laying on the ground

tom

 

[psj12]

I use a 55 gal drum of water in the pickup plumbed to a small pressure washer to knock the dirt off the roots. If you try to burn it with the dirt on, it will take forever. After letting them sit 6 - 12 months I then burn them.

Speaking of stump dumps, they do exist. In Maryland they had one in Baltimore county that they used for a couple decacdes. They would bury the stumps. Then it caught fire a few years ago and could not be extinguised for months. It was like the underground coal fires in Pennsylvania that are still burning.