Burning stumps

[challengertn]

Anybody have any tips that would help when burning out stumps. These stumps are large and would take a dozer to dig out and they are in a place that would make the damage done by a dozer not worth getting rid of the stumps.

 

[slowrev]

Auger/drill a bunch of holes in them and maybe pour some kerosene in the holes, give it time to soak in good. Pile brush on top and get a good fire going all day long. Might take more than one burning.....I have had fair results with this method.

Ben

 

[Richard]

My uncle drilled holes in some of his and poured something inside the hole (forget what it was). As I recall, he said it would either hasten the deterioration from the inside... or that it was flammable and he was going to ignite it a day later and let the stump smolder underground.

For some reason, now that I type it out, I think it was more of the latter (smoldering) than rotting.

Perhaps he was going to soak with kerosene?

Anyways, that's all I know in it... I ended up popping them out with my backhoe and he never did it.

Richard

 

[Richard]

Dang that slowrev is a fast typest! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif jumped right in front of me

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[challengertn]

If I remember correctly it is saltpeter that you pour into the holes to hasten decay but I've never tried it. When I burn them I have a problem with the stump's fire suffocating under it's own ashes.

 

[HickoryNut]

I bought a piece of 4' metal culvert 4' long, they use them as drywells buried and filled with rock. Set that puppy over a stump and build a good fire in it and it will cook a stump pronto and contain the fire so you won't burn the countryside. Works great.

 

[GaryE]

I have used "Stump-Out" in the past. You need to add kerosine, but it does work well.


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Gary

 

[FL_Cracker]

Small walk behind stump grinders work great. Very little turf damage and they grind the stump into mulch. Then all you have to do is dig out a little of the chips and add soil, and your ready to grass over the stump....

 

[johndeere2210]

We have had good results with setting a piece of tin around the stump and spreading a few bags of charcol over the stump and set it on fire. It will usually smolder for two or three days and anything that is left is easily removed. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Harleymsn]

Someone once told me copper sulfate was the stuff to pour in them.

 

[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.