Tree Stumps

[bimmer1980]

After cutting down a couple of trees in the last couple of weeks, I had to bust out a stump in anticipation of my new garage. When I bought my skid steer, I had also purchased a trencher bucket. That came in handy when it was time to dig out the stumps. The first was on realitively easy, as it was mostly rotted. the second one I spent most of the last 3 or 4 days digging out. I ended up breaking it into about 4 peices and busting them out.....

Here's the pics...

 

[bimmer1980]

Here's the rest of the pics....

It took all the HP I could get out of the Bobcat to get this stump out....

But it sure beats a shovel!

I thought about renting a stump grinder, but that doesn't get all of the root material.... This way, I got 99% of the roots out.....

 

[35mastr]

I have had a few that I had issues with also. I normally just dig around them and cut the roots as good as I can.

Then flood them with water for as long as I need to soften up the ground.

I just chain them and they pull out with the truck easily.

 

[A_Pmech]

After four days of ramming into that stump, are you suitably shaken?

 

[bimmer1980]

lol..... yeah, thank goodness I have a comfortable chair here at work!

 

[HOTFR8]

I have just spent two days cleaning up a tree that fell over in a storm here.
I wish I had the machinery you have to get the stump out of the ground. Mine may have to wait until I can get a Bobcat in

 

[Klunker]

Just had 2 large Maples dropped and sawn into 18" chunks (30" dia. trunks), 2 Snowy Poplars dropped (had to be cut down in small hunks from top down with a boom), 2 maples trimmed up 30ft, all the tops were ground up into mulch. And finally a large white oak stump, 1 med. sized hickory stump and 1 large maple stump ground out in rocky ground for $750. I could of not done it myself in a weeks time.
All I had to do was haul the sawn up maples into a pile and shovel 2 large piles of wood chips around the gardens.

 

[brownbagg]

you can drill hole in the stump and fill with amnonia fertilizer and it will rot the stump quick

 

[Ezzie]

Just downed a 50' spruce on the weekend that was about 12" across the trunk at the base. Thought I'd try something for giggles and drove into the sucker with the backhoe bucket at about 10' up the trunk (for leverage). To my amazement, it went over pulling roots and all up with it. Simple clean up afterward with a chainsaw and trimming axe.

I must say however, I have had many "issues" with removing hardwood stumps (such as maple) in the past though.

 

[thdewey]

Oh how I wish that I had bugeted for stump removal....... It took an extra couple of days $$$ to get three stumps out. I did save some money buy cutting the trees down myself though. The elm stump is still out back of the garage. I guess I need to tow it into the woods some day.