Burning stumps

[PBinWA]

I tried one of those stump rot things and those stumps are still there.

What worked well for me was to cut a cross hatch pattern in the stump with my chain saw as deep and as busy as I could.

Then I piled 3-5 big bags of charcoal briquets on top of the stump and let them cook for as long as possible. This worked pretty good.

It still takes a while to do if you have a lot of stumps and I was a little wary about leaving 4-5 stumps cooking for so long but it did work.

For my next 50 trees it's going to be a dozer and I'm going to get everything ripped out of the ground.

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[dliston]

I have used the charcoal method, too. Works well and is cheap.

Doug

 

[sweettractors]

<font color="blue"> I have used the charcoal method, too. Works well and is cheap. </font>

I too, have used this method in combination with drilling holes and kerosene poured into them before piling on the brickets--Ken Sweet

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[Taylortractornut]

If its within extension cord reach on a weekend youll be around to supervise it take a half of a 55gallon drum with both ends removed and cut a door in the side of it. Take and put it on some rocks that lift it 1 to 2 inches off the ground andcut a hole in the side of the barrel to let a cheap window fan sit there and blow on the coals. I did this a few months ago and it works great the coals never completely die out.