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[Oldpath05]

Glad you got our terminology back on track SR, sometimes it's hard for me to remember and I get so flitching mad when I cant.........

 

[Oldpath05]

Yep Gordon . . . ansi is it!

Least you have TBN member's to chit chat with, helps a little with ants........

 

[hunt4570]

I did say "most stumps" and "usually". Depends on size, type of tree, soil, etc, etc. If you get a good kill with the herbicide it seems to speed it up. I have one old pine stump that has been standing about 30+ years in East Texas red clay. Every time I see it I give it a kick and its been solid as a rock. Why that one has stood so long I don't know.

I cut a stand of china berry trees down a few years back and didn't have anything with me right then but some red barn paint. So I painted the stumps with it. I bet those stumps didn't last a year. When I went back looking for them I could not find them. Some of them were 12"+ at the ground and the trees were green, leafy when cut.

Maybe that old pine stump turned to fatwood, run a chainsaw into the top and see how it smells... heavy pine odor and probably so.

 

[Loaderman22]

I tried to dig up a oak stump that been cut 30 years and only 10", dug around it best I could with FEL but the only it would move was with my sons 6x6 with chain around it going down hill, when finally out I had a 3' deep hole. The only way I get stumps out the way now is dig around then push on tree from all 4 sides, once over cut tree off. The biggest I can go is around 8", but sometimes a 6" tree is all I can push over and that can be hard, the root system around here is incredible....

I have a red oak stump, 24"+ dia, I cut it 5-6 years ago, it still has all the bark on it, looks like I cut it 6 months ago. I'd love to get the stumps out, but it's just not worth the time, and I'd do less damage if I dug around them and cut them off with a chainsaw and an old chain. I have a big Maple stump, the tree was dead and rotten when I cut it down, stump barely looks different from 3-4 years ago, just not worth the time to fight with them. And that remedy stuff sounds cool, but at $100/gal, that would cut into my libations fund!!

 

[hunt4570]

I have a red oak stump, 24"+ dia, I cut it 5-6 years ago, it still has all the bark on it, looks like I cut it 6 months ago. I'd love to get the stumps out, but it's just not worth the time, and I'd do less damage if I dug around them and cut them off with a chainsaw and an old chain. I have a big Maple stump, the tree was dead and rotten when I cut it down, stump barely looks different from 3-4 years ago, just not worth the time to fight with them. And that remedy stuff sounds cool, but at $100/gal, that would cut into my libations fund!!

If you are only using the REMEDY to kill stumps there is enough in one gallon to kill several thousand stumps! Mix it 4 parts diesel to one part REMEDY.. I've had this latest gallon 3-4 maybe 5 years now. Not that expensive for how far it goes!!! Don't listen to that OP guy.

 

[Oldpath05]

I have a red oak stump, 24"+ dia, I cut it 5-6 years ago, it still has all the bark on it, looks like I cut it 6 months ago. I'd love to get the stumps out, but it's just not worth the time, and I'd do less damage if I dug around them and cut them off with a chainsaw and an old chain. I have a big Maple stump, the tree was dead and rotten when I cut it down, stump barely looks different from 3-4 years ago, just not worth the time to fight with them. And that remedy stuff sounds cool, but at $100/gal, that would cut into my libations fund!!

Me to right next to my new woods road, what should be done is take a stump grinder to it, If I had it dug out I'd have a humongous hole to fill in and wouldn't do my road any good either. Since I have no grinder might try a old saw chain and some SC language and see what happens.

That $100/gal stuff would cut into something besides my libations, but least you have one of those, what year is yours............
Here is some of what was left over from the red oak stumps.......... Heavy red oak slabs - YouTube

 

[Oldpath05]

If you are only sing the REMEDY to kill stumps there is enough in one gallon to kill several thousand stumps! Mix it 4 parts diesel to one part REMEDY.. I've had this latest gallon 3-4 maybe 5 years now. Not that expensive for how far it goes!!! Dont listen to that OP guy.

Oh I didn't look at it that way, so now that makes more since when one has 300 acres, then after the trees are all cut down go around with a paint brush to all the stumps, what was I thinking when I though about just doing a 1/2 dozen stumps.... If I had more libations and a pool I would've done the math and looked at the $100/gal more differently..............

 

[Molalla1]

Right you are Oldpath . . . :thumbsup:

Least you have TBN member's to chit chat with, helps a little with ants........

 

[hunt4570]

Me to right next to my new woods road, what should be done is take a stump grinder to it, If I had it dug out I'd have a humongous hole to fill in and wouldn't do my road any good either. Since I have no grinder might try a old saw chain and some SC language and see what happens.

That $100/gal stuff would cut into something besides my libations, but least you have one of those, what year is yours............
Here is some of what was left over from the red oak stumps.......... Heavy red oak slabs - YouTube

Need any lessons on the SC language?? I can help in that department if need be!

Holy cantankerous booty!!!! Look at that sawdust pile!! WOW!

 

[hunt4570]

Oh I didn't look at it that way, so now that makes more since when one has 300 acres, then after the trees are all cut down go around with a paint brush to all the stumps, what was I thinking when I though about just doing a 1/2 dozen stumps.... If I had more libations and a pool I would've done the math and looked at the $100/gal more differently..............

You have 300 acres? NICE!! HIGHLY jealous here!

And you have to paint the tops as you cut them so they don't turn into brush!