Stump Disposal ???

[wedge40]

I've got about 15 or so stumps of various sizes. The big ones I've placed with the roots up hoping mother nature will get rid of most of the dirt. She's not doing a very good job so far. At some point I will drag them to the edge of the woods and let em sit for couple of years.. Then some wet spring dig a pit to burn em in. If I could figure out how get the woodpeckers to think there is food in there they would be gone in a year or two.

Wedge

 

[radioman]

I dug up a couple stumps and tried burning them withthe brush I needed to burn. One was popular and one was maple. All my brush did was char it to point where it easier to knock the dirt off. I ended up using my axe to chop it up into pieces and used the saw to make slices and threw it in the stve to burn. BIG mess from the charred sides. :ashamed: It was only 2 stumps so it worked for me. For OP, perhaps he would be better off to bury them in spot where he not worried about dips in ground 30 years from now if he has more then 2.

 

[20 20]

Burying them may{??} come back to haunt you latter. Buried stumps take a V E R Y long time to rot if they do at all. If you do bury them at the edge of your pond be carefull. I had one at the edge of my pond that caused me 3 days of down time. I was clearing the edge of the pond and sure enough that stump decided to rot. Of course, there was no way to tell untill I pulled up onto it {about the 3rd pass} and one side of the dozer sunk out of site. Many dirt movers in this area doing work on ponds will ask, "are there any buried stumps around the edge that anyone knows of?" They really frown on burying stumps on the edges. Also unless the stump is small AND clean I would not throw it in the pond. It will just end up being a headache down the road.

I would either stack them out of the way for a time{6+mths} then burn. Or find a GOOD place to bury them{over a bank or something}.

 

[forgeblast]

I did see there is a garden called a "stumperary". It was on "gardening by the yard". It looked really cool. They put the stumps all over the place and planted ferns and other plants around them. It was very different, but i guess in victorian times they had a lot of these gardens.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

After reading all of these postings. Sounds like you need a place to be able to burn if you can. I thought dumping it in the pond was a good idea. Now I guess it isn't. Maybe the best thing if you can is wash it off the best you can. Grab a couple of buddies with big chainsaws and several of their old worn out (sharpened) chains. Start slicing and dicing the best that you can. Enjoy a cold beverage after all the work is done. I save my most used chains for cutting roots and stumps.

 

[dave1949]

It's an old problem apparently. I just read a passing reference to 'stump fences'. As woods were cleared for fields, they would drag the stumps to the edge and stack them up in a long row for animal fencing. If some were right side up and others upside down, I can see how that would be a pretty good fence for cows or sheep. They last a long time too, the remnants of some stump fences are still visible.

If I were going to put a stump somewhere to rot, I would put it in a shady spot where it will stay damp enough for the molds and fungi to work on it.
Dave.

 

[hr3]

OK no stumps in the pond,, I'll dig them out and rake off the roots with the BH and drag them down back and put them on the tree line to rot..There goes the new lawn we put in last year,,

 

[Scotty370]

No personel experiance, but I did see a thread somewhere that said to drill holes and fill them with the highest nitrogen fertilize that you can find, and they'd be 'punky' in a year! Don't know! ~Scotty

 

[dave1949]

OK no stumps in the pond,, I'll dig them out and rake off the roots with the BH and drag them down back and put them on the tree line to rot..There goes the new lawn we put in last year,,

If you are good with dynamite, you can blow those stumps out of the ground, over the new lawn, and right into the woods.

I watched the father of a friend blow all the stumps in a 10 acre woods after clearing off the logs - in one pass. It was a hoot. We only had to duck once.
Dave.

 

[dangerdoc]

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

That's what I've found. I move stump residue from burn pile to burn pile. Eventually they go away but they take forever to dry out and one fire is usually not enough.

My brother stacked the biggest and tightest burn pile I've ever seen. Once he lit it off, you couldn't get closer than 50 yards. That burn pile vaporized everything in it, my piles don't burn that hot.