Enormous Stump disposal? Most cost effective method?

[Tony_S]

Where are those 300 folks that picked up that barn and moved it by hand when you need them?

Ok, the only other thing I can think of that has not been suggested....
Put it on wheels and roll it away. If you have access to a few railroad jacks and some cribbing, jack it up, get it on wheels (or logs, or rollers of some type) and I bet that F250 can handle it then!
Jack points might be tricky. Perhaps you'll need to bolt on some lift points.

I like the wrecker idea really.

Good Luck!

 

[sandman2234]

A good comealong would go a long way moving it out of the front yard, but good ones aren't cheap. (Mine is a 6 ton) and moves my JD (7k pounds) out of the mud when I get it stuck. Might take everything you have to anchor enough to allow the stump to move and not the other way around. I like the Jack it up and put rollers under it, as that is how I move machinery, using pipe. A piece of pvc pipe would probably move it, if you used 2 or 3 lengths just wider than the stump. Probably need 6" pipe which isn't cheap if you can't find any used.
David from jax

 

[Egon]

Fellows, doesn't the OP say the stump is still in the ground and note it's size.

 

[JohninCT]

Bite the bullet and spend the $500 to rent the machine you need to do the job quickly and effectively. Unless you just happen to see a backhoe or skid steer guy riding down the street that you can flag down and pay to move it, you will probably spend more money on saw chains, small tool rentals, and weeks, months, or even years :shocked: of frustration of looking at and picking at this behemoth in your front yard.

 

[loghouse511]

Bite the bullet and spend the $500 to rent the machine you need to do the job quickly and effectively. Unless you just happen to see a backhoe or skid steer guy riding down the street that you can flag down and pay to move it, you will probably spend more money on saw chains, small tool rentals, and weeks, months, or even years of frustration of looking at and picking at this behemoth in your front yard

Amen!!

 

[CurlyDave]

I have to agree.

Rent the JD 310 again. Sometimes they will have a 4 hour rate for something like that, maybe $350. If so, hire the same operator. If 8 hours is the minimum and the stump is far enough away from your house you can operate the big machine yourself.

I think the experience would be worth the cost, and you would have the full 8 hours to move the stump. Just be sure you can move the stump without hitting your house, a water line, sewer line, electric line, etc.

I took out an oak stump a while ago in very rocky ground, and that thing had embedded rocks into itself. When it was young, the roots had grown on all sides of the rocks, and as it aged, the roots consolidated, incorporating the rocks into the solid wood of the stump. It laughed at a chain saw.

 

[bcp]

Our time was up on the machine and I was left with this humongous tulip poplar stump sitting in the front yard. Its up out of the ground just sitting there ruining an otherwise nice view.

Stump is out, just needs moved, it seems.

Bruce

 

[Egon]

Seems a senior moment again. I was sure the stump was still buried.

 

[EddieWalker]

I have a big STIHL 660 w/ a 32" bar, but I cant cut it up into smaller bits, at least, not without ruining my Bar and chain.

What does a new bar and chain cost for your chainsaw? I have two Stihl chainsaws that I use to cut wood and lighten stumps and in about three years, still have the original bar and chain, but have had the chain sharpened a few times. Of all the suggestions given so far, none seem as cheap as using what you have and replacing or sharpening the chain if you need to when you are done. Both are going to wear out on you sooner or later, might as well get started on the job and hand and deal with the chainsaw if you need to when it gets to that point.

Eddie

 

[Chilly807]

I don't know what the going rate is in the States for an excavator, but up here it's about $100 an hour. I guess my time is worth more to me, but for ignorant jobs like this, I'd pay the excavator guy a couple hundred bucks and be done with it. Some jobs are worth doing yourself, but in my opinion, this isn't one of them.

Sean