I need advice on stump removal

[Thomas]

I would grind them,take many many years before you would notice.

 

[lucky llama]

You could go with charcoal and a cooler full of beer. Pine stumps burn out pretty well.

 

[crazyal]

I dug all my stumps out before building my house. I have lots of land so having over an acre full of nothing but stumps wasn't a problem. I had the backhoe and I didn't want my driveway to sink over the years. But for a field, grind them and be done with it. Each year you turn it over you can shift a little dirt if needed to fill in anything sinking. Plus the wood chips should rot and help make more soil.

 

[Oldoak]

Your getting a lot of differences of opinions. However, if you don't remove those stumps and you ever till that ground with anything but disks in the several years, between the ruminants of the stumps themselves and all their roots, your going to wish you had.

 

[RNeumann]

Did someone say-
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[Complete Turf Care]

Several years ago we rented a mini excavator to remove stumps from our food plots. They were pine stumps. I had no idea how big and deep the stumps would be. For a 15" stump, the hole would be at least 10' x 10' and 6' deep.

We ran the machine for about 30 hours over a long weekend and were able to get them all out. Probably about 50 or so stumps.

We were lucky that our soil is very sandy and we have not had any issues with tractors getting stuck in the holes.

 

[bcp]

People are always saying the old ways were best.

Bruce

 

[mcfarmall]

Rent a Vermeer SC30TX and you'll have them gone in about 3 hours. I rented one for an entire weekend and ground out about 60 stumps from 36"-6" plus a bunch of roots in the yard that were growing above the soil. Even at that, I was done by noon on Sunday. Weekend rental ran me $290.00 and about 15 gallons of gas.

 

[Oldoak]

People are always saying the old ways were best.

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Bruce

Where there is a will, there is a way. Just like the loggers cutting down the giant Redwoods with crosscut hand saws.

There's a reason you don't see any over weight people in old time photos.

 

[kthompson]

Our soil is a sandy loam type. In our yard we removed hardwoods and pines up to about 30 inches before we built. It is now 17 years later and we still have some stump holes to fill back up to grade but expect it to be the last time. It has taken that long for all to rot out. They were ground maybe 6 niches below grade.
In a field that was clear cut maybe 20 years ago and allowed to just sit for about 5 years to 7 years being bushhoged along and along I had to dig out the pine stumps as many of the larger ones turned into lightwood. If that happens forget them ever rotting.
For me, if I ever thought would be using any kind of in ground plow I would dig the stumps. For me it is hard to be 100% sure I would never want a plow of some sort in the ground. Had that field sprigged with grass this year and even with all the digging that was done there the sprigger brought up a few stumps missed when digging.

If you have no more stumps than I understood would price someone with necessary machine to dig them. As to making quick sand find that interesting. Happened to see show on the weather channel on that line a few days ago. But yes try to avoid those holes with tractor when wet for the next couple of years.