Large Stump Removal

[Blade Breaker]

How about just rent a stump grinder. 20 minutes and it will be cut down to about a foot below surface.

 

[Sysop]

The more of it you can take out, the quicker you can have the hole filled and no longer need to mess with it. A stump grinder is a good quick solution, but you will spend the next twenty years adding dirt and replanting grass in the hole as what remains rots away.

 

[NWOutlawMX]

That's a good sized backhoe. I would think they would make short work of Fir stumps. How long did you have in the worst stump?

The worst one took 2 days. It was actually one with a 52" diameter at ground level with a 28" and a 14" side by side grown into the roots of the big one. It's a 120 sized excavator and I thought it would be big enough to make the labor part less but it was not to be. It will pull up to 24" stumps with no cutting. Quite a few times I lined up head on, got the bucket under the edge of a root and pulled. This would then raise the back of the excavator up 2-3ft then I would just twitch the controls and get it bouncing and eventually it pulled them free.