What do you do with stump once removed?

[SylvainG]

So I took out a 12 inch stump the other day and with its roots, that's over two feet in diameter. Moved it to the fire pit but it's taking longer than expected to burn (it's been dead and cut down a few years ago). What do you do with your removed stumps?

 

[Diggin It]

It'll burn eventually.

 

[Captain Dirty]

My son's burn pit has a tuyere, a 6" pipe in a trench extending from the surface to the bottom of the pit. He runs a 5-amp bouncy-house blower as the fan. The forced air makes the fire burn hotter (and cleaner). As I recall, a 2' diameter tree stump with a 6' diameter rootball took around 12 hours to be reduced to about 10" cube.

 

[MossRoad]

Dig a hole and bury it.

 

[5030]

I roast them all.

 

[tomplum]

Yard art! Can you drop if somewhere for fish habitat?

 

[SylvainG]

Yard art! Can you drop if somewhere for fish habitat?

That reminds me, in the lake, about 100 feet from the shore, there's a cut stump right side up that is just deep enough that a boat propeller can hit it and break a shear pin (happened to my brother in law). I tried to move it by attaching a rope around it and pull it further down the lake but my boat simply turned around it. I wondered what a tree that size (about 16") was doing so far from the shore. Now I know how it got there lol.

I can use my tractor's backhoe to move it to the lake but not sure how to move it further down the lake though. There is enough sand and rocks mixed with the roots that it will probably sink so not sure my boat can drag it further down the lake.

 

[SylvainG]

Dig a hole and bury it.

I guess I could dig further, put it there and use the extra dirt to level the ground...

 

[Industrial Toys]

I have burned them but some places don't allow that for the amount of smoke they produce.

 

[MoKelly]

Yea - burn them. Be patient, they smolder but they will burn. No other reasonable alternative in my opinion.

MoKelly

 

[MossRoad]

That reminds me, in the lake, about 100 feet from the shore, there's a cut stump right side up that is just deep enough that a boat propeller can hit it and break a shear pin (happened to my brother in law). I tried to move it by attaching a rope around it and pull it further down the lake but my boat simply turned around it. I wondered what a tree that size (about 16") was doing so far from the shore. Now I know how it got there lol.

I can use my tractor's backhoe to move it to the lake but not sure how to move it further down the lake though. There is enough sand and rocks mixed with the roots that it will probably sink so not sure my boat can drag it further down the lake.

Take it out on the ice.

That's what a lot of conservation clubs do with old Christmas trees.

 

[TractorGuy]

I burn some but I have been stacking the large ones up along the property line.

 

[4570Man]

You have to get the dirt out for them to burn. A 12” stump you should be able to get pretty much completely clean.

 

[MossRoad]

I burn some but I have been stacking the large ones up along the property line.

That's what I do with all of my prunings, leaves, dirt, broken concrete, old Christmas trees, etc. I pile it up along the back of our property and pile leaves over it. We've been here 25 years and there's a 3' berm the width of the property with pokey branches sticking out of it. Keeps neighbor kids from coming into our yard from that direction. Works great.

 

[4570Man]

That's what I do with all of my prunings, leaves, dirt, broken concrete, old Christmas trees, etc. I pile it up along the back of our property and pile leaves over it. We've been here 25 years and there's a 3' berm the width of the property with pokey branches sticking out of it. Keeps neighbor kids from coming into our yard from that direction. Works great.

The last land I cleared the local gun club was expanding the berm and said they’d take them. I dumped a bunch out there

 

[SylvainG]

Take it out on the ice.

That's what a lot of conservation clubs do with old Christmas trees.

Wonder how thick the ice is required to be to support a 4000lb tractor with a few hundred pounds stump. Also, many snowmobiles travel on the lake in winter. Try explaining that you hit a tree in the middle of the lake

 

[Frankenkubota]

Take it out on the ice.

That's what a lot of conservation clubs do with old Christmas trees.

I grew up in WI. Driving on the ice was something fun to do while you froze to death. My older brother lives on a deep lake outside of Milwaukee.

That's exacty what they did, park it and let it sink in the spring. They were doing it in the 60s Divers have found old railroad cars, old autos and trucks and 100s of years of human garbage at the bottom.

Out of site, out of mind.

 

[Frankenkubota]

I have 11 monsters, I made a ring and call it stump henge, a pagan calendar.

Down here they have stump dumps. Builders take them there as a quick and expensive way to dispose of them.

I wonder what happens to them at the stump dump?

 

[Egon]

Sit back and watch them decompose!

 

[MoKelly]

Sit back and watch them decompose!

Hope you have a few beers to help pass the time!

MoKelly