Who wants some stumps in MA

TCJatko · Apr 12, 2015

The old timers used to make stump fences to confine cattle and other critters.

tmc_31 · Apr 12, 2015

MrWhipple said:
air curtain as in air jet like from a compressor? at maybe 10-20psi?

More like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cHrWcwUyt2s

I suspect you could rent one

Tim

Ed of all trades · Apr 12, 2015

If you burry them they make sinkholes when they rot. I'll take them all if I can keep them at your house.:laughing:

MrWhipple · Apr 12, 2015

because it's bloody hard to dig through the ledge that's about 6" to 6' below ground level......

Looking4new · Apr 12, 2015

I would make a fence out of them myself.

tcreeley · Apr 12, 2015

In the Berkshires where I grew up there was a stump fence- like driftwood and impassable. It must have been well over a 100 years old. It was the boundary between the woords and field. The field side was the root side. Beautiful fence.

bindian · Apr 13, 2015

If you burn, make a huge pile with tops and limbs, then place the stumps on them. When you burn, keep working (pushing it in from all sides) the pile every hour or so and keep restacking the unburn wood. I do this over a weekend and work it all weekend.........even through the night. I have had hot coals for over a week that were buried and where "found" when I went to make a new pile. Get all the dirt off of the stumps possible, let them dry out good. Then torch 'em.

PS..............a backhoe with thumb or a FEL grapple really helps restacking burning logs and/or stumps.
hugs, Brandi

JimP · Apr 14, 2015

I cleared about 1 1/2 acres and had piles of stumps. I cleaned the dirt off the stumps best I could and burned them a few at a time in a trench. After the fire started I used a Little Wonder 8 hp leaf blower to stoke the fire and kept feeding stumps. Burning in a trench made loading easy and contained the heat. Very little smoke and really hot fires. Most of the stumps were gone in 4 weekends.

bindian · Apr 15, 2015

JimP said:
I cleared about 1 1/2 acres and had piles of stumps. I cleaned the dirt off the stumps best I could and burned them a few at a time in a trench. After the fire started I used a Little Wonder 8 hp leaf blower to stoke the fire and kept feeding stumps. Burning in a trench made loading easy and contained the heat. Very little smoke and really hot fires. Most of the stumps were gone in 4 weekends.

I have used my zero turn mower to stoke the fires a few times.
hugs, Brandi