Stump Disposal ???

[hr3]

Just finished dropping next years fire wood.. In a few weeks I'll be putting on the BH and removing the stumps.. The trees were on the edge of my pond and 2 of the trees were quite big,, What I was wondering was would it hurt to roll the 2 big ones into the pond,,, The pond is about 30' wide and 60' long by 20' deep ??? What do you think???

 

[MikeD74T]

Stumps in the pond would make a great place to store unused lures !!! MikeD74T

 

[JB4310]

And will be there for the next 30 years or more!

Stumps are a nuisance. Around here you can't even bring them to the vegetation dump. You can't bury them on a construction site, you can bury concrete and pavement rubble but not a stump.
I see huge trailers on some sites and they are trucking them out, to where I have no clue, maybe the stump dump.

Can you burn them?

JB

 

[dave1949]

I don't think I would roll them into the pond either. If you want fish cover or something like that, medium sized limbs with branches would be a better choice.

Stumps get buried over here. Just pick a spot you never want to build on or use for a lane or driveway. If you pack them in good, it will be a long long time before they rot and cause a slump. At least 30 years I have been told. Even if they would rot, a bucket or two of fill will take care of it.
Dave.

 

[Zick]

And will be there for the next 30 years or more!

Stumps are a nuisance. Around here you can't even bring them to the vegetation dump. You can't bury them on a construction site, you can bury concrete and pavement rubble but not a stump.
I see huge trailers on some sites and they are trucking them out, to where I have no clue, maybe the stump dump.

Can you burn them?

JB

That's what I've done. Sure it takes a while (about 3-5 bon fires) but it's all in good fun.

 

[DarrylH20]

Around here they haul them to a place that chips them then they haul the chips to burn them in the power plant. You can bring them there but they charge you.

 

[EddieWalker]

I used to dig up stumps, but then I learned how much faster and easier it is to take out the tree with the stump all at once. Smaller hole and the stump comes out cleaner. Then it's out in the open when you cut up the log, and it burns right up with the branches.

If I find a stump now, I either dig it up and leave it in the burn pile until it's gone, or bury it deeper where it is.

In my area, there is a big tub grinder that the city, county and I imagine others, bring stumps to. They have massive mountains of the mulch that is created from grinding up those stumps. I saw one stump in the back of a dump truck that was too big to fit in there and I guess, heavy enough not to fall out. It was massive!!!!

If you dig them up, can you load them and haul them if you can find a place that takes them? I don't havey any way to do this, so I just burn and burn and burn some more. LOL

Eddie

 

[hr3]

Eddie,, I will be trying your method on one of the big ones,, Digging the the root system out then pulling it over,, I can dig a hole and just put them in the ground where they are I guess,,, I only have a 7610 and I know I can't lift the 2 of them...

 

[tommu56]

Im in eddies camp dig a < around the tree and push them over then cut them up its a lot easier.
rent an bigger track hoe excavator for a day lay them over cur them up laying on the ground

tom

 

[psj12]

I use a 55 gal drum of water in the pickup plumbed to a small pressure washer to knock the dirt off the roots. If you try to burn it with the dirt on, it will take forever. After letting them sit 6 - 12 months I then burn them.

Speaking of stump dumps, they do exist. In Maryland they had one in Baltimore county that they used for a couple decacdes. They would bury the stumps. Then it caught fire a few years ago and could not be extinguised for months. It was like the underground coal fires in Pennsylvania that are still burning.

 

[wedge40]

I've got about 15 or so stumps of various sizes. The big ones I've placed with the roots up hoping mother nature will get rid of most of the dirt. She's not doing a very good job so far. At some point I will drag them to the edge of the woods and let em sit for couple of years.. Then some wet spring dig a pit to burn em in. If I could figure out how get the woodpeckers to think there is food in there they would be gone in a year or two.

Wedge

 

[radioman]

I dug up a couple stumps and tried burning them withthe brush I needed to burn. One was popular and one was maple. All my brush did was char it to point where it easier to knock the dirt off. I ended up using my axe to chop it up into pieces and used the saw to make slices and threw it in the stve to burn. BIG mess from the charred sides. :ashamed: It was only 2 stumps so it worked for me. For OP, perhaps he would be better off to bury them in spot where he not worried about dips in ground 30 years from now if he has more then 2.

 

[20 20]

Burying them may{??} come back to haunt you latter. Buried stumps take a V E R Y long time to rot if they do at all. If you do bury them at the edge of your pond be carefull. I had one at the edge of my pond that caused me 3 days of down time. I was clearing the edge of the pond and sure enough that stump decided to rot. Of course, there was no way to tell untill I pulled up onto it {about the 3rd pass} and one side of the dozer sunk out of site. Many dirt movers in this area doing work on ponds will ask, "are there any buried stumps around the edge that anyone knows of?" They really frown on burying stumps on the edges. Also unless the stump is small AND clean I would not throw it in the pond. It will just end up being a headache down the road.

I would either stack them out of the way for a time{6+mths} then burn. Or find a GOOD place to bury them{over a bank or something}.

 

[forgeblast]

I did see there is a garden called a "stumperary". It was on "gardening by the yard". It looked really cool. They put the stumps all over the place and planted ferns and other plants around them. It was very different, but i guess in victorian times they had a lot of these gardens.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

After reading all of these postings. Sounds like you need a place to be able to burn if you can. I thought dumping it in the pond was a good idea. Now I guess it isn't. Maybe the best thing if you can is wash it off the best you can. Grab a couple of buddies with big chainsaws and several of their old worn out (sharpened) chains. Start slicing and dicing the best that you can. Enjoy a cold beverage after all the work is done. I save my most used chains for cutting roots and stumps.

 

[dave1949]

It's an old problem apparently. I just read a passing reference to 'stump fences'. As woods were cleared for fields, they would drag the stumps to the edge and stack them up in a long row for animal fencing. If some were right side up and others upside down, I can see how that would be a pretty good fence for cows or sheep. They last a long time too, the remnants of some stump fences are still visible.

If I were going to put a stump somewhere to rot, I would put it in a shady spot where it will stay damp enough for the molds and fungi to work on it.
Dave.

 

[hr3]

OK no stumps in the pond,, I'll dig them out and rake off the roots with the BH and drag them down back and put them on the tree line to rot..There goes the new lawn we put in last year,,

 

[Scotty370]

No personel experiance, but I did see a thread somewhere that said to drill holes and fill them with the highest nitrogen fertilize that you can find, and they'd be 'punky' in a year! Don't know! ~Scotty

 

[dave1949]

OK no stumps in the pond,, I'll dig them out and rake off the roots with the BH and drag them down back and put them on the tree line to rot..There goes the new lawn we put in last year,,

If you are good with dynamite, you can blow those stumps out of the ground, over the new lawn, and right into the woods.

I watched the father of a friend blow all the stumps in a 10 acre woods after clearing off the logs - in one pass. It was a hoot. We only had to duck once.
Dave.

 

[dangerdoc]

That's what I've done. Sure it takes a while (about 3-5 bon fires) but it's all in good fun.

That's what I've found. I move stump residue from burn pile to burn pile. Eventually they go away but they take forever to dry out and one fire is usually not enough.

My brother stacked the biggest and tightest burn pile I've ever seen. Once he lit it off, you couldn't get closer than 50 yards. That burn pile vaporized everything in it, my piles don't burn that hot.