I’m amazed at how many ways you might approach problems. I’m equally amazed at the critiques below that seem to have found THE one and only way. I love the gentle approach of this fine video as two fine people share THEIR way. Thanks for sharing.
I felt the same way, I removed a large stump not long ago and I used a chain saw to cut the tree down and chop the limbs up, I used a shovel and dug around it, going down about 4 feet. Used an axe to chop fire wood sized pieces off of it. Used a pick axe to chop through or clear dirt from around the roots and an 8 foot pry bar to pry parts of wood from the stump and also on breaking the roots apart. took me about 2 months, but I did not work on it everyday, still was a lot of work and sore muscles. I still have 7 to go.
@@johnbausch7557 👍lol 😂 it’s your choice; his choice. And someone else would choose from either one or come up with choice # 3- get someone with a machine dig up the stump. It takes them hours, or less, depending on the size of the tree 🌳 Lol 😂 Life is full of choices. And us, humans are creative.
I like how you call them volunteer trees, you can harvest a lot of seedlings and branches for mulch and compost. - I would let a part of the stump stand, cut into it to create some openings, and water it and plant mushrooms. Likely it would need some larger plants nearby to create shade. A little nitrogen rich compost around to compensate for the decomposing wood.
Try using a reciprocating saw to cut off the tap root (after you've dug around the base). Reciprocating saws work in soil just fine. Then you can often just dig out the stump with a pick axe.
I recently added a reciprocating saw to supplement my land clearing tools. It has been of far more use than anything else. Blades last quite a while, but when they dull I can simply pop another in the tool in a matter of seconds for a couple of bucks of expense.
Thank you Dan and Alice! I like the idea of using the auger in order to go deeper as we have large stumps. Enjoy your garden we are right behind you! Living the dream ✨️ 💝🙏🏼
Not trying to take away from a good video but consider this. USE the trunk for leverage! While you have anywhere from 4 to 15 feet of trunk, clean away the roots with a shovel. Tie a rope high as possible on the trunk and with that leverage pull where you want the trunk to fall. Pull on the rope with an anchored come-along, winch, truck hard point or just have someone pull the rope. While the roots on the opposite side of the trunk are being pilled, cutting with axe or chainsaw is much easier. As you cut through roots it will get easier on subsequent roots. You might try different angles pulling the rope to get to other roots. Eventually the roots break pretty easy, again because of the leverage.
Another method that worked great for me was build a charcoal briquet fire in top of the stump. Once the stump catches fire it will burn the roots clear down into the soil.
Not always an option but yes it works to burn it out. I have often covered it with dirt and mulch above the ground. 6 months later the stump is rotten and removes easily.
@@patchofparadise2930 our fire dept said steep fines for that because the fire can move underground, but before he said that I was going to do it that way
@@acts10truth Our privet roots go way under our house and next door's house - it occurred to me also that I could be responsible for burning down both houses - I hope the epsom salts kill off the stump. I'm going to give that a go.
One of the best saws for cutting roots or below the soil level is a SAWZALL... The blades are tough enough, and really not dulled by dirt as easily . Try that next time you remove a tree.
Leave the tree tall for leverage. Hook a comealong or electric winch to the base of another tree or other anchor. Keep tension whilst you cut and/or pry the roots.
Anyone looking to deal with a stump check the wood type for the right fungi to inoculate it with and you can turn the stump into a mushroom garden as the fungi breaks down the wood.
My oak stump looks amazing with the conk fungus growing on it. You can also fabricate a wire basket using chicken wire, ect. , staple/ nail it to the flat top, put moss or landscape fabric in it, fill with soil, and walla! Lol
@@_.cutiexpie._252 I was merely stating the obvious, and apparently I'm not alone in my opinion. Funnier still, is you're attempting to condone me, for doing the EXACT same thing you did posting your own comment. Logic is pretty amazing, ain't it? Play again?
Holy crap you cut the tree down and buried stump TH-cam is getting pretty stupid drill three or four or four holes that are filled with gas and burn it
@@kctyphoon “and apparently I’m not alone in that opinion” nah you just ain’t the only person mad at they life 😂💀. Foh don’t let your ego get to high bud lmfao. And yah I can “condone” you all I want lmfao it’s what you were doing in the first place for NO REASON. Over a god damn tree bud 😂. Grow up
It isn't just buried...the Epsom Salts is not only good for making you shit your arse off...the Sulphates (Sulfates to Yanks) break down the Cellulose in the green wood and they eventually become organics. The Magnesium will help fertilise the soil. The alternative is to break your back when levering the stump out after roots are dug up and cut off.
I dont bother with Epson salts ,the cuts help let the "Slaters"(Australia) ( Woodlice ,Ciggypiggs, Pill bugs, Woodbugs ) eat it away, We had a trivet tree in my moms back yard, only good for shade and climing,
For those large side roots you can use a tree axe to cut through them and if you do that before cutting the tree, sometimes with a tree that size, the upper weight of the tree will pull it over and the stump out of the ground.
This was one cool video. I used my skill saw. Took a hammer and chisel and got it removed clear down below the surface. I re cut the remains and did like you showed in the video. Covered it with Epsom salt and limestone as it was in a landscaping area. Can't even tell there was a stump now. Years from now, the stump will be rotted away.
I use a fire ring around the tree to concentrate the heat and take the branches for the fire. Ring (a culvert works great) should be 6 to 12 inches above the stump. If near your house roast hot dogs or something. I’ve used this method to clear a field for planting grass for more pasture. It will burn the stump 3-6 inches below the surface.
If you drill down into the stump with a big drill them pour some kero into it and keep topping up the kero for a bit as it burns, it will actually burn that sucker right up from the inside out.
I might suggest using a 15" dia (38 cm) diameter auger bit, go down 3 ft (1m), fill hole with Epsom Salt, cover with AstroTurf(r) and a large concrete monument.
This isn't a trick but this is how my Swedish grandfather split granite: wait till winter or till temperatures are under 0°Celsius. Drill a dozen holes or more about 2-3 cm wide, as deep as you can, ideally not less than 15cm but the deeper the better. Fill with water and then the water will freeze and split the stump just like the frozen water popped off slices of the drilled granite. When the thaw comes pluck out what you can; then wait till spring by which time several thaws and repeated freezes will have so shattered the stump it won't be hard to remove the rest. 😀 Obviously only works in climate zones with freezing temperatures... 🙄 Cheers!
@@wayfarer1101 when water freezes it expands. Granite has no give and that’s why it breaks. Wood does have give and doesn’t that’s why trees aren’t split all to hell every winter
How long does it take for that stump to disappear with the Epsom Salt on it?? Thank you for showing this video. I just took down an evergreen bush and there's a good sized root left so I will cut that down close to the ground and buy some Epsom Salt. Gods blessings to you.
Dan and Alice - Thank you for the video. I have used this technique in the past and it works. Another method would be to cut the tree trunk as close to the ground as you can (just like you did) then take the tip of your chain saw or an axe and dish out a bowl shape in the tree trunk then add a few BBQ briquets, ignite the the briquets and walk away... They will slowly smoulder without an open flame. You get the same results, just a little quicker. You can even cook lunch over the briquets while they destroy the trunk. Wood ash makes a excellent garden soil enhancer as well. Michael from Canada
I used a pressure washer on a stump. It stripped away the dirt and debarked the stump and roots. Bored it out with drill. Then used a mixture of boric acid and Epsom salt. The salt draws out moisture and the moisture makes the acid work to rot the stump.
Epsom Salts is the old common English name for Magnesium Sulphate and it is the Sulphates that create acidic conditions and break down the Cellulose in wood. Magnesium acts as a fertiliser.
I just bought a wood carvings wheel for my angle grinder. Was a lot faster than chainsaw and a lot easier. I tried drilling holes using an auger bit and it stuck in the stump, tried backing it out with drill, vise grips and crescent wrench but the thing is still locked in. I decided to just burn the stump with the auger still in it.
What an unsafe idiot , he acknowledged the possibility of kick back and still proceeded and on top of the in most cuts his face was directly over the saw, people like this cause accidents , go back to your basement dan
You should cover it with plastic so that rain doesn’t wash it away. I did this with a few stumps in my yard. They are still there , but 1 year later, they are no longer giving off shoots and can tell they are decomposing.
Wow, looks better than I thought it would. Can't even tell a tree was ever there. I'm having to romove trees (therefore tree stumps) along an old fence line, and there's wire grown into all the trees. Argh. What I'm having to do is cut the trees at a height above the fence line, then dig out each stump with a backhoe attachment that goes on my tractor. A small tree like that, I could totally tear out stump and roots in 5 minutes. But big trees are usually 4 hours per stump! P.S. Where's your wife from? I married a Filipina myself.
HOW COOL IS THAT!! That’s what I love about TH-cam! You learn great tricks for everyday problems and cool stuff like nourishing your soil when you thought you were going to get stuck with a stump that might outlive your kids! Thank you for this great trick to turn a problem into compost!
Yo, you have your chain on the saw backwards.. there is no way even a dull chain would cut that slow. Trust me, I've done it once myself! Love the videos!
Dig out an extra 3 feet all the way around and 3 feet down around that tiny stump, back up your pickup, hook a chain around the bottom and jerk that little stick out of the ground.
Deciduous trees are very useful. I grow a lot of vegetables right underneath my maple tree. Lettuce and cilantro need some good shades in the summer to prolong their growing season.
Or dirt in the bark or a rock in the tree or an old nail. Plenty of ways to dull a chain. Files are cheap and chains on consumer grade chainsaws are too. Just save old chains for cutting trash.
grow MUSHROOMS, the microbial funghi eat the wood - but if you are lucky spores of edibles do well. you can create some cuts and holes and even deep cuts (with an axe) to help water enter. That will speed up rot and help the fungi. Plus if it freezes in winter expanding ice will crack up your stump even more. I would plant some larger plants around it to create shade and would start the mushroom production. If you do not get edible harvest - you get only good soil. Nor sure about the epsom salts in that context.
Since they repeatedly let "volunteer plants," a term he even used in this very video telling us that's what the tree they are removing was and also actively promote letting things that establish themselves to grow. I don't really think they care.
Thank you for the tip. I’ve had a tree cut to the ground, but I wasn’t able to use the space as the guy who cut the tree didn’t want to dess as l with the stump, so, thank you so much.
This looks like the way to go. Cheap and not too hard. Who cares if it's still under there? Due to the chainsaw scoring and e. salt, it won't be a problem. Thanks for your posting this to help others. So kind of you to share!
What he did is a well known technique. Why all the hating? The stump will rot out very fast this way. I do this to all my stumps. Chains can be resharpened, not a big deal. If i don't have time to wait for a stump to rot, i do what he did but with much deeper cuts that go completely through the stump. I also make extra plunge cuts into the side of the stump angling them towards the center. After the stump dries i pour oil on it and burn the stump. What ever doesn't burn up can be easily removed with a shovel and chainsaw.
The epsom salt MgS04 is a mystery to me but you say it works so I will try. Stumps take a long time to rot because they are mostly carbon. Speed it up with nitrogen and possibly phosphorous fertilizer like ammonium phosphate. The microbes will now have a more complete diet to do their work. You can drill holes in the stumps as well.
I read through most of the comments. Hiding a stump was not the purpose. Grinding does not stop the roots from growing. Case in point, a removed Chinese Elm in my front yard. Hate that tree! The important question is, how many years does it take for a stump like this one break down?
I use Epsom salt a lot in my garden. I have not tried it on a stump, but I will. I would rather use that then the chemicals that are in the stump remover stuff. Thank you!
Now that’s a dull chain on that saw. Must of already gotten it in the dirt. Dirt/sand is terrible on the chain and bar. Excellent method for removing tree stumps. Nice to the point video and thanks for not having ugly background music. Good job mate. Would’ve been helpful if you hand said how long it takes for the stump to disappear or have shown us a pic after 3 - 6 months. Thank you
How's that getting rid of the stump? Plus sharpen the chain on that saw, I'd drill some holes in it,throw some charcoal and light it,,smolder for couple days...and gone( for real gone )
Cool I got a lot that are far away from the house but are eyesores all the same I had a generator at the time so I did drill a lot of holes in he stumps on top as well as the sides but they werent cut nearly as low as they could have been . Ill try more epsom salt & & dong better covering the stumps Thanks for the info Nice to see the two of you working together & the job looked great when it was finished
If it does it is temporary. I have used that method on stumps in my yard and had grass there by the next year. It is very beneficial to most plants. I water all of my plants with epsom salt including lawn, vegetable garden and house plants.
@@jeremyisensee9546 I was going to use 46-0-0 fertilizer to remove Chinese privet which is very invasive as well. Do you think this would work? I was hoping to plant in this area in the fall.
will say when i saw the title and such i just figured you where going to burn it out, like one of those one log stoves. drilling a hole down the center of the stump with a large drill, and then using a different bit to drill an air hole in the side of it to feed it air.... like a swedish torch.
Consider using a reciprocating saw with a pruning blade to cut the root system around the stump. You might need to go a foot or more from the stump depending on the thickness of the root section.
My thought as well. Reciprocating saw blades are not expensive and you can replace them readily if they get dulled by going into dirt. The saw is a convenient size to work with in these situations too.
Just use stumpex or similar product. for best results, I've found that applying glyphosate (roundup) to FRESH cuts works wonders. The tree absorbs the product as it attempts to "heal over" the fresh cuts. So, make "pockets for roundup liquid to remain in stump (crosshatch was great), then add stumpex on top of that to start the deteriorating. It makes the wood spongy which holds water making it decay further. Still can bury it over as in the video, but works faster. It still will take some time, but if the stump/root isn't killed, you can have sprouts coming up anywhere along the root path as the tree tries to survive the trunk amputation... really bad with black and honey locust trees.
Thank You I had 2 large trees taken down and I knew to have the Criss cross the stumps with their chainsaw but didn’t know about the Epson salts I pour bleach in it every once in a while and it hasn’t budged it a bit so maybe the Epson salts I was trying to stop the trees from tearing up my foundation and the word is very much alive and I have volunteers coming up everywhere but I’ll try the Epson salts
It worked for you? Im buying some land with eucaliptus, that will be cut off in 8 years, i will use the land after the cut for cattle but its far away from my home, so if epsom salts (or nitarte of potassium) work i would rent to agriculture. A land ready for agriculture is much more valuable here.
Cut enough to use the stump as a base for a stool/ bar table/smaller table/bird bath....etc......You could also leave it and wrap it in solar lights, so you would have a natural light tower.....plant mushrooms, nature's chicken coup seating.....so many possibilities.........That tree was a gift from nature.
Wow why is everyone so mad at this guy, people are so ready to jump on someone at the first thing and he didn't do nothing wrong but try to give his version of how to get rid of a stump lol I guess everybody thought they were gonna see a magic trick
Because he was dangerous with the chainsaw, didn’t use chaps, and used a dull chainsaw along with looking right over the saw when he said he was concerned about kick backs. Maybe this is why?
i think this is a good tip. i am going to use it on an old tree stump plus euonymus roots that i am trying to get rid of. and, i have a sidewalk section raised by a maple that has died. i have been trying to think about how to cause the root to decompose underneath the section. because that section is raised, i think i can introduce epsom salts there. all of these things may not disappear in a few minutes, but i am content to let nature take over after i have done my best to physically remove what i can.
You promote SOIL LIFE UNDER the sidewalk. And that means you have to nurture the surrounding areas, the volume decreases when organic matter is broken down, so the sidewalk should sink back over time. are there any cracks so you could put in tubes to improve airation ? If you have cracks you can enter water (a mix with urin would be good). Or compost tea, that has the eggs of worms etc in it, and the bacteria and fungi that would do the work for you. problem is input of oxygen - and of course water, but you can water that - but getting air into that spot is trickier. I guess you could boost the soil life around it so that it invades the area under the sidewalk (softening the soil there too) and takes care of the dead root.
Intense epsom salt my kill the root (it is also a fertilizer but that only helps you when there is life in the soil and you can spread out the nutrients - but your soil under the sidewalk is covered, and for the most part cut off from water and even more so from air). Too intense fertilizer in a spot is counter productive (that is why it kills plants if used in concentrated form). IF there is any soil life that could help you in that spot - you likely kill it with too much epsom - inevitably it will be concentrated in one place. The tree is already dead, it is unlikely the root will survive that. The tree did not grow out from the sidewalk, it is the EXTENDED root area that raised the sidewalk. Extended root area from a cut down maple does not restart growth. the roots have a certain volume though and are kept moist under the "seal" of the sidewalk. Only when organic matter decomposes it shrinks in volume and for that you need SOIL LIFE. Especially fungi.
could you dig into the underground of the sidewalk (from the side, from your property) and install some L shaped pipes as air supply ? Where they are in the soil they would need to have holes (you can drill that with normal DIY tools). There are professional tools that are used do drill holes into soil, for fence posts for instance.So IF there is any chance to create a vertically drilled hole very close to that sidewalk area I would do that. - just make sure there are no lines (power, gas, ...) If the maple roots created enough damage in the sidewalk that there are holes at the surface - use them and make sure they stay open. Maybe not using a pipe but some material like perlite and coarse gravel on top to make that a permanent entryway, and to protect it from being clogged up. Pipes would allow more airflow, but are also more visible and rain and maybe critters and slugs could enter - so you would have to take precautions. With coarse gravel or perlite, you are done. If sideways digging is possibe. - insert some plastic tubes 8even if you do not get directly at the root area. You want to rehabilitate the soil in that area, for the whole area, you have to start somehwhere. It is important to monitor how much rain goes into it. it is possible the area around the sidewalk would just soak it up, but you do not want to create anearobic swamp conditions. If you can keep the part of your ground (where you started the sideway digging) accessible *, you could check * coarse gravel that is easily removed - it will also allow the rain to filter into that area and that moisture and subsequently soil life will also expand into the sidewalk underground. Any little niche that has enough air. They expand the aerated areas because the create structured air with many air pockets, and the roots shrink in volume and also create structure. - if you see worms after a while you can assume your strategy works, and maybe you would also notice IF the sealed off area goes anaerobic. It depends how compacted it was because of construction, how much rainfall, etc. If anything the roots that you want to see gone help with the effor, because they broke the ground, however compacted. They created (potential) entryways. And maybe a net on top of piples so no critters and slugs can get into it. But you could pour some compost tea or concotions with spores of fungi (collect some rotten wood or buy) into the pipes. This would create moist regions under the sealed off area and enable soil life to thrive. Once they eat away the roots these become air tunnels, so more microbes can live there. If there are cracks in the sidewalk I would secure them with perlite or something like that. else some hardy weeds will grow in it and fill it up with dirt / soil. not a bad thing per se (that is how pioneer plants made the land fertile over time) but you want to proctect every little entryway for air and water from being occupied or clogged up.
Privets are used as hedging in some place in New Zealand.I get rid of the big privet tree along my boundary.Birds really love the berries but it stain the roof of my car because the tree overhang my driveway.
@@drsuperhero So could I. We live in Central Florida and it do be expensive to have a person grind stumps. Would be good to buy one but the price is more than we can afford.
@@arlenebowers326 Have you ever consider burning them out? If you have a decent chainsaw, you can slice into the top similar to this video, and then light a fire on top with sticks. The fire travels down into those slices in the stump, and ends up burning the it from the inside out. Obviously, that method doesn't work if your stumps are close to buildings
dude, once the stump is cut, the pores are open. you have 20 minutes to apply a poison like roundup(pure strength), brush it on around the cambium layer. the pores close drawing in the roundup and the end!
The stump is not out of mind, it will still be around 40 or 50 years from now . With a lot of little spring babies coming out all the time. And your Great Grand children will have a tire swing hanging from your limbs.
I'll bet these people who are so critical of his method have never tried to remove a stump, or for that matter, done any yard work such as they're doing.
Great idea! I watched the Epsom salt series first though so I had the understanding of how it works... I think a lot of the commenters here might have missed that.
😂 don’t do this unless you know what you are doing, blunt saws are more dangerous than sharp saws. This saw is very blunt and the video should not be shown.A professional would do that size tree for £20-40 with the stump removed.Better safe than sorry. 🤕😵Bad info sorry
All well and good if the weathers dry but in Manchester UK it's nearly always pissing down with rain, not only that but you can't do anything with that area of ground until the stump has rotted away.
Place a bag of match light charcoal the size of the stump diameter on the stump. Light the bag with the charcoal in it and let it burn safely. The charcoal will burn out the stump and even most of the big roots. The fire will burn under ground for a few days and your stump is go away. Fill in the hole, that will smother out the rest of the fire. Easy, cheap, and quick
Fungi (above and under the ground) time, and getting harvests of mushrooms in the meantime. Instead of smouldering the valuable stump away and releasing smoke into the air.
Whoa! I've been watching these videos so long I just looked outside and my stump has rotted away! It works!
I’m amazed at how many ways you might approach problems. I’m equally amazed at the critiques below that seem to have found THE one and only way. I love the gentle approach of this fine video as two fine people share THEIR way. Thanks for sharing.
You made it disappear by raking dirt over it, I feel cheated out of 7 min of my life.
Thanks, on the the next
Thanks for the warning. It's a con. Annoying.
I felt the same way, I removed a large stump not long ago and I used a chain saw to cut the tree down and chop the limbs up, I used a shovel and dug around it, going down about 4 feet. Used an axe to chop fire wood sized pieces off of it. Used a pick axe to chop through or clear dirt from around the roots and an 8 foot pry bar to pry parts of wood from the stump and also on breaking the roots apart. took me about 2 months, but I did not work on it everyday, still was a lot of work and sore muscles. I still have 7 to go.
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@@johnbausch7557 👍lol 😂 it’s your choice; his choice. And someone else would choose from either one or come up with choice # 3- get someone with a machine dig up the stump. It takes them hours, or less, depending on the size of the tree 🌳 Lol 😂 Life is full of choices. And us, humans are creative.
I like how you call them volunteer trees, you can harvest a lot of seedlings and branches for mulch and compost. - I would let a part of the stump stand, cut into it to create some openings, and water it and plant mushrooms. Likely it would need some larger plants nearby to create shade. A little nitrogen rich compost around to compensate for the decomposing wood.
Try using a reciprocating saw to cut off the tap root (after you've dug around the base). Reciprocating saws work in soil just fine. Then you can often just dig out the stump with a pick axe.
I recently added a reciprocating saw to supplement my land clearing tools. It has been of far more use than anything else. Blades last quite a while, but when they dull I can simply pop another in the tool in a matter of seconds for a couple of bucks of expense.
not this guy... he's struggling with the pickaxe as it is....maybe Alice will have to 🤪
great I was getting some enjoyment out of digging out old small trees stumps with a shovel lol its fun
Just use you axe on those roots, i took out a 3 foot diameter stump by bisecting it with an axe. Not for the timid, certain and effective.
Bingo!
Thank you Dan and Alice! I like the idea of using the auger in order to go deeper as we have large stumps.
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Not trying to take away from a good video but consider this. USE the trunk for leverage! While you have anywhere from 4 to 15 feet of trunk, clean away the roots with a shovel. Tie a rope high as possible on the trunk and with that leverage pull where you want the trunk to fall. Pull on the rope with an anchored come-along, winch, truck hard point or just have someone pull the rope. While the roots on the opposite side of the trunk are being pilled, cutting with axe or chainsaw is much easier. As you cut through roots it will get easier on subsequent roots. You might try different angles pulling the rope to get to other roots. Eventually the roots break pretty easy, again because of the leverage.
I took a tree are course and that's what they taught us!
STUMPFEST!!!!
Or get Alice to pull it out.
This would actually require some thought and work, can't have any of that.
not everyone has ready access to all that equipment!
and also this would work really well for smaller trees.
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Thank you kindly!
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Thank you Dan and Alice appreciate this very much I don't know what to do with the stumps and my daughter's yard
Another method that worked great for me was build a charcoal briquet fire in top of the stump. Once the stump catches fire it will burn the roots clear down into the soil.
That's what I do. Stack bricks in a square around the stump and add the charcoal. May take a couple burns but it will get rid of it.
Not always an option but yes it works to burn it out. I have often covered it with dirt and mulch above the ground. 6 months later the stump is rotten and removes easily.
@@patchofparadise2930 our fire dept said steep fines for that because the fire can move underground, but before he said that I was going to do it that way
@@acts10truth Our privet roots go way under our house and next door's house - it occurred to me also that I could be responsible for burning down both houses - I hope the epsom salts kill off the stump. I'm going to give that a go.
i've left the brush for next winter to dry out, and then built the fire around the stump inside an oil drum with both ends missing. block it on bricks
One of the best saws for cutting roots or below the soil level is a SAWZALL... The blades are tough enough, and really not dulled by dirt as easily . Try that next time you remove a tree.
Yeah. Much safer. Drill, sawzall, anything but a chainsaw lol
Lol, works great...or did until my son burned up his sawsall.
Yep. I bury utilities on private property so not huge machinery. If the property is wooded sawzall is riding.
Leave the tree tall for leverage. Hook a comealong or electric winch to the base of another tree or other anchor. Keep tension whilst you cut and/or pry the roots.
Anyone looking to deal with a stump check the wood type for the right fungi to inoculate it with and you can turn the stump into a mushroom garden as the fungi breaks down the wood.
My oak stump looks amazing with the conk fungus growing on it. You can also fabricate a wire basket using chicken wire, ect. , staple/ nail it to the flat top, put moss or landscape fabric in it, fill with soil, and walla! Lol
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Not positive but I think it’s “voilá”. Maybe not….
@@dr.OgataSerizawa You are correct Sir.. I was being facetious. 😉
It is spelled voila, it is a French word.
“How to make a stump disappear in minutes” - he covers it with mulch. Wow - i woulda never thought that one up.. That's Sarcasm btw.
Must be hard being mad all the time huh?
@@_.cutiexpie._252 I was merely stating the obvious, and apparently I'm not alone in my opinion. Funnier still, is you're attempting to condone me, for doing the EXACT same thing you did posting your own comment. Logic is pretty amazing, ain't it? Play again?
@@kctyphoon u must be rly sad in life
Holy crap you cut the tree down and buried stump TH-cam is getting pretty stupid drill three or four or four holes that are filled with gas and burn it
@@kctyphoon “and apparently I’m not alone in that opinion” nah you just ain’t the only person mad at they life 😂💀. Foh don’t let your ego get to high bud lmfao. And yah I can “condone” you all I want lmfao it’s what you were doing in the first place for NO REASON. Over a god damn tree bud 😂. Grow up
Haha. I thought you were really going to show us some sort of trick. Instead you just buried it. LOL.
Thanks, thought I seen that coming. Watching at 1/4 through. Good work on his part though.
yeee loser tip
It isn't just buried...the Epsom Salts is not only good for making you shit your arse off...the Sulphates (Sulfates to Yanks) break down the Cellulose in the green wood and they eventually become organics. The Magnesium will help fertilise the soil.
The alternative is to break your back when levering the stump out after roots are dug up and cut off.
My dog does better tricks lmao buried it
I dont bother with Epson salts ,the cuts help let the "Slaters"(Australia) ( Woodlice ,Ciggypiggs, Pill bugs, Woodbugs ) eat it away, We had a trivet tree in my moms back yard, only good for shade and climing,
For those large side roots you can use a tree axe to cut through them and if you do that before cutting the tree, sometimes with a tree that size, the upper weight of the tree will pull it over and the stump out of the ground.
This was one cool video. I used my skill saw. Took a hammer and chisel and got it removed clear down below the surface. I re cut the remains and did like you showed in the video. Covered it with Epsom salt and limestone as it was in a landscaping area. Can't even tell there was a stump now. Years from now, the stump will be rotted away.
Creating a sinkhole under your limestone. Dig up and discard instead.
Chainsaw chaps would be a good idea. Mine saved me a trip to the hospital when I was cutting off a large stump at ground level.
I use a fire ring around the tree to concentrate the heat and take the branches for the fire. Ring (a culvert works great) should be 6 to 12 inches above the stump. If near your house roast hot dogs or something. I’ve used this method to clear a field for planting grass for more pasture. It will burn the stump 3-6 inches below the surface.
If you drill down into the stump with a big drill them pour some kero into it and keep topping up the kero for a bit as it burns, it will actually burn that sucker right up from the inside out.
@@888WulfDog888 nice idea
I might suggest using a 15" dia (38 cm) diameter auger bit, go down 3 ft (1m), fill hole with Epsom Salt, cover with AstroTurf(r) and a large concrete monument.
Lmao go all the way
Lol!
This isn't a trick but this is how my Swedish grandfather split granite: wait till winter or till temperatures are under 0°Celsius. Drill a dozen holes or more about 2-3 cm wide, as deep as you can, ideally not less than 15cm but the deeper the better. Fill with water and then the water will freeze and split the stump just like the frozen water popped off slices of the drilled granite. When the thaw comes pluck out what you can; then wait till spring by which time several thaws and repeated freezes will have so shattered the stump it won't be hard to remove the rest. 😀
Obviously only works in climate zones with freezing temperatures... 🙄
Cheers!
Great idea!! Use nature, not force!!
The elders had vast amount of knowledge on how to work along with nature. Brilliant minds. Thank you for sharing.
Won’t work! Granite has zero give to it while wood has a lot
@@danjohnson6870 And frozen is frozen.
@@wayfarer1101 when water freezes it expands. Granite has no give and that’s why it breaks. Wood does have give and doesn’t that’s why trees aren’t split all to hell every winter
How long does it take for that stump to disappear with the Epsom Salt on it?? Thank you for showing this video. I just took down an evergreen bush and there's a good sized root left so I will cut that down close to the ground and buy some Epsom Salt. Gods blessings to you.
Dan and Alice - Thank you for the video. I have used this technique in the past and it works. Another method would be to cut the tree trunk as close to the ground as you can (just like you did) then take the tip of your chain saw or an axe and dish out a bowl shape in the tree trunk then add a few BBQ briquets, ignite the the briquets and walk away... They will slowly smoulder without an open flame. You get the same results, just a little quicker. You can even cook lunch over the briquets while they destroy the trunk. Wood ash makes a excellent garden soil enhancer as well.
Michael from Canada
THANK YOU! I was like why would anyone go through the trouble of cutting it and then LEAVE it there alive...
Thanks for that tip! We have as dead tree we need to remove and this idea will really help!
Wow! Amazing, and so easy!
Thank you so much👍👏
Have a safe day!
Moira
From England.
I heard rock salt worked too.Hey.I watched your video.Great Job.Thanks man.
I used a pressure washer on a stump. It stripped away the dirt and debarked the stump and roots. Bored it out with drill. Then used a mixture of boric acid and Epsom salt. The salt draws out moisture and the moisture makes the acid work to rot the stump.
Epsom Salts is the old common English name for Magnesium Sulphate and it is the Sulphates that create acidic conditions and break down the Cellulose in wood. Magnesium acts as a fertiliser.
I gave a 👍 for the use of the garden hose. Good idea
Any updates on your root/stump situation?
I just bought a wood carvings wheel for my angle grinder. Was a lot faster than chainsaw and a lot easier.
I tried drilling holes using an auger bit and it stuck in the stump, tried backing it out with drill, vise grips and crescent wrench but the thing is still locked in. I decided to just burn the stump with the auger still in it.
thanks for the warning!
The title should read.... How to HIDE a tree stump in just a few minutes... !!!
making it disappear is technically hiding it....
yeee loser tip
Same method is equally efficient with a cat turd in the kitchen.
Just sweep it under a rug.
You can hide the cat turd but you can’t hide the smell😀
@@gillcalvert5699 Didn't Clint Eastwood say that in Dirty Harry?
💜to you and Alice💜
Super sweet team work
God bless
So all you managed to do was destroy your chain saw blades, and bury the stump... in a few minutes? I thought you had some special trick.
Itchymoche n Vee it’s called a chain not a blade 😂
Ethan Karr now that was funny 🤣
What an unsafe idiot , he acknowledged the possibility of kick back and still proceeded and on top of the in most cuts his face was directly over the saw, people like this cause accidents , go back to your basement dan
In a few minutes work, he doesn’t have to worry about that stump again.
Don't forget to salt the earth so nothing else will grow there ever again
We did this!! Thanks! Then we went along merrily with our landscaping! 🌟🌟🌟🌟
You should cover it with plastic so that rain doesn’t wash it away. I did this with a few stumps in my yard. They are still there , but 1 year later, they are no longer giving off shoots and can tell they are decomposing.
Wow, looks better than I thought it would. Can't even tell a tree was ever there. I'm having to romove trees (therefore tree stumps) along an old fence line, and there's wire grown into all the trees. Argh. What I'm having to do is cut the trees at a height above the fence line, then dig out each stump with a backhoe attachment that goes on my tractor. A small tree like that, I could totally tear out stump and roots in 5 minutes. But big trees are usually 4 hours per stump! P.S. Where's your wife from? I married a Filipina myself.
Just mallett some wedges into those cuts and you'll break the stump apart no need to wait.
Exactly. Use wedges, or he could've also had a fire on top of the cuts, and it would've burned into the core of the stump.
Have you done an update on the tree stump you used Epson salts on back in 2018 I would be interested to know what its like now in 2021 thanks
HOW COOL IS THAT!! That’s what I love about TH-cam! You learn great tricks for everyday problems and cool stuff like nourishing your soil when you thought you were going to get stuck with a stump that might outlive your kids! Thank you for this great trick to turn a problem into compost!
Will still take years for that stump to deteriorate. Any large roots will probably take even longer.
It's nice to see a man who makes his woman do all the work and just films it. That's why I watch, to observe the master!
Great video. We all have some of those pesky "volunteers." I've got three to do myself. Love the instruction. Thanks for sharing. Love Peg
Great video. Out of sight out of mind. Cheers
I keep old chains and completely file down the rakers. I put them on a dedicated chainsaw I use as my stump grinder.
Yo, you have your chain on the saw backwards.. there is no way even a dull chain would cut that slow. Trust me, I've done it once myself! Love the videos!
Dig out an extra 3 feet all the way around and 3 feet down around that tiny stump, back up your pickup, hook a chain around the bottom and jerk that little stick out of the ground.
Wish I could give you 50 thumbs up
Deciduous trees are very useful. I grow a lot of vegetables right underneath my maple tree. Lettuce and cilantro need some good shades in the summer to prolong their growing season.
I always use the same 3 simple tools when removing tree stumps; *my neighbors: "Moe, Larry, and Curly."*
awee..oo . a wise guy eh?
Hey, what a coincidence. I have three "special" tools as well. Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber.
Hilarious!!!!!!
You ain’t foolin’ anybody.
You are king of the couch.
hahaha
A split second to dull the chain hitting pebble or even dirt cutting that low. (Licensed Arborist - company owner 20 years)
Correct just dirt or mud will wear out chain and bar fast .
That chain was already dull as it was
Or dirt in the bark or a rock in the tree or an old nail. Plenty of ways to dull a chain. Files are cheap and chains on consumer grade chainsaws are too. Just save old chains for cutting trash.
Good idea with the epson salt .I had a large tree taken down and want to get ride of the stump .I heard that vegetable oil is going also.
grow MUSHROOMS, the microbial funghi eat the wood - but if you are lucky spores of edibles do well. you can create some cuts and holes and even deep cuts (with an axe) to help water enter. That will speed up rot and help the fungi. Plus if it freezes in winter expanding ice will crack up your stump even more.
I would plant some larger plants around it to create shade and would start the mushroom production. If you do not get edible harvest - you get only good soil.
Nor sure about the epsom salts in that context.
You may want to reconsider planting a persimmon tree, they tend to sprout suckers from the roots 30-40 ft radius from the trunk.
Since they repeatedly let "volunteer plants," a term he even used in this very video telling us that's what the tree they are removing was and also actively promote letting things that establish themselves to grow. I don't really think they care.
Thank you for the tip. I’ve had a tree cut to the ground, but I wasn’t able to use the space as the guy who cut the tree didn’t want to dess as l with the stump, so, thank you so much.
Well, we learned how to properly hide a stump.
Thank you for much information for a beginner.
Looks like Alice is getting some yardwork done and you are playing with your camera...
lolol
This looks like the way to go. Cheap and not too hard. Who cares if it's still under there? Due to the chainsaw scoring and e. salt, it won't be a problem. Thanks for your posting this to help others. So kind of you to share!
Fungi, time, and getting harvests of mushrooms in the meantime.
I think the last time you used your chainsaw, was to cut through a rock.
charles miller 😂😂😂😂
charles miller 🤣🤣
Thats what I was thinking
Far cheaper then any other means !
What he did is a well known technique. Why all the hating? The stump will rot out very fast this way. I do this to all my stumps. Chains can be resharpened, not a big deal. If i don't have time to wait for a stump to rot, i do what he did but with much deeper cuts that go completely through the stump. I also make extra plunge cuts into the side of the stump angling them towards the center. After the stump dries i pour oil on it and burn the stump. What ever doesn't burn up can be easily removed with a shovel and chainsaw.
Yup.
That chainsaw is blunt. And if I put my hands over my eyes the tree will disappear even faster.
The epsom salt MgS04 is a mystery to me but you say it works so I will try. Stumps take a long time to rot because they are mostly carbon. Speed it up with nitrogen and possibly phosphorous fertilizer like ammonium phosphate. The microbes will now have a more complete diet to do their work. You can drill holes in the stumps as well.
This man is no doubt a epsom salt dealer. Check out his 3 part video of stump removal.
I read through most of the comments. Hiding a stump was not the purpose. Grinding does not stop the roots from growing. Case in point, a removed Chinese Elm in my front yard. Hate that tree! The important question is, how many years does it take for a stump like this one break down?
Many. Video is bs, you have to continuously add the Epsom salt. Like, every other day. 'out of sight, out of mind' dudes a joke.
I has been 8 months since you did that to the stump. What does it look like now? Is it breaking down as expected?
I use Epsom salt a lot in my garden. I have not tried it on a stump, but I will. I would rather use that then the chemicals that are in the stump remover stuff. Thank you!
The chemical should just be potassium nitrate. It’s just saltpeter.
The Team: One supervisor, one worker.
Now that’s a dull chain on that saw. Must of already gotten it in the dirt. Dirt/sand is terrible on the chain and bar.
Excellent method for removing tree stumps. Nice to the point video and thanks for not having ugly background music. Good job mate.
Would’ve been helpful if you hand said how long it takes for the stump to disappear or have shown us a pic after 3 - 6 months. Thank you
Yup. It was cutting slowly and making sawdust, not shavings. The chain needs to be sharpened.
Looks like she's doing all the work.
Wow!!! Will this work on roots left behind from a tree?
I can make my car disappear in just 10 seconds! I put it in the garage and shut the door. And the small tree could have been dug out in half an hour.
Lol
You made my day!!!
hilarious!!
😂😂😂
How's that getting rid of the stump?
Plus sharpen the chain on that saw, I'd drill some holes in it,throw some charcoal and light it,,smolder for couple days...and gone( for real gone )
Very well edited video 🤘 thank you for the priceless information
Except for the ultra loud music we're blindsided with!?
Cool
I got a lot that are far away from the house but are eyesores all the same
I had a generator at the time so I did drill a lot of holes in he stumps on top as well as the sides but they werent cut nearly as low as they could have been . Ill try more epsom salt & & dong better covering the stumps
Thanks for the info
Nice to see the two of you working together & the job looked great when it was finished
Use fertilizer or manure. Cover with dirt. You want the fungi to eat the tree.
I’m wondering if the salt will effect the PH balance of the soil, becoming an issue for future vegetation planted in that same area? 🤔
If it does it is temporary. I have used that method on stumps in my yard and had grass there by the next year. It is very beneficial to most plants. I water all of my plants with epsom salt including lawn, vegetable garden and house plants.
@@jeremyisensee9546 I’ll give it a shot.
Thanks 😉👍 🧂🌲🌳
@@jeremyisensee9546 I was going to use 46-0-0 fertilizer to remove Chinese privet which is very invasive as well. Do you think this would work? I was hoping to plant in this area in the fall.
I will try this myself. I threw my back out removing a stump this summer and haven't tried removing the rest of the Rodedendrons since.
Epsom salts! A million uses. I hope the persimmon treee gives you great pleasure as it grows.
will say when i saw the title and such i just figured you where going to burn it out, like one of those one log stoves. drilling a hole down the center of the stump with a large drill, and then using a different bit to drill an air hole in the side of it to feed it air.... like a swedish torch.
Consider using a reciprocating saw with a pruning blade to cut the root system around the stump. You might need to go a foot or more from the stump depending on the thickness of the root section.
That would work and paint some tree poison on the open wounds of the tree roots if you cannot remove them.
My thought as well. Reciprocating saw blades are not expensive and you can replace them readily if they get dulled by going into dirt. The saw is a convenient size to work with in these situations too.
Reciprocating saw is well? I find the easiest.
When I was younger, I learned to use those saws to separate those awful pond plants my wife loved. What a time saver. Now the plants are on their own.
Nicely done sir! And just the I needed.
Just use stumpex or similar product. for best results, I've found that applying glyphosate (roundup) to FRESH cuts works wonders. The tree absorbs the product as it attempts to "heal over" the fresh cuts. So, make "pockets for roundup liquid to remain in stump (crosshatch was great), then add stumpex on top of that to start the deteriorating. It makes the wood spongy which holds water making it decay further. Still can bury it over as in the video, but works faster. It still will take some time, but if the stump/root isn't killed, you can have sprouts coming up anywhere along the root path as the tree tries to survive the trunk amputation... really bad with black and honey locust trees.
Do you have a video of that sifter?
Thank You I had 2 large trees taken down and I knew to have the Criss cross the stumps with their chainsaw but didn’t know about the Epson salts I pour bleach in it every once in a while and it hasn’t budged it a bit so maybe the Epson salts I was trying to stop the trees from tearing up my foundation and the word is very much alive and I have volunteers coming up everywhere but I’ll try the Epson salts
It worked for you? Im buying some land with eucaliptus, that will be cut off in 8 years, i will use the land after the cut for cattle but its far away from my home, so if epsom salts (or nitarte of potassium) work i would rent to agriculture. A land ready for agriculture is much more valuable here.
Cut enough to use the stump as a base for a stool/ bar table/smaller table/bird bath....etc......You could also leave it and wrap it in solar lights, so you would have a natural light tower.....plant mushrooms, nature's chicken coup seating.....so many possibilities.........That tree was a gift from nature.
Wow why is everyone so mad at this guy, people are so ready to jump on someone at the first thing and he didn't do nothing wrong but try to give his version of how to get rid of a stump lol I guess everybody thought they were gonna see a magic trick
Because he was dangerous with the chainsaw, didn’t use chaps, and used a dull chainsaw along with looking right over the saw when he said he was concerned about kick backs. Maybe this is why?
i think this is a good tip. i am going to use it on an old tree stump plus euonymus roots that i am trying to get rid of. and, i have a sidewalk section raised by a maple that has died. i have been trying to think about how to cause the root to decompose underneath the section. because that section is raised, i think i can introduce epsom salts there. all of these things may not disappear in a few minutes, but i am content to let nature take over after i have done my best to physically remove what i can.
You promote SOIL LIFE UNDER the sidewalk. And that means you have to nurture the surrounding areas, the volume decreases when organic matter is broken down, so the sidewalk should sink back over time. are there any cracks so you could put in tubes to improve airation ? If you have cracks you can enter water (a mix with urin would be good). Or compost tea, that has the eggs of worms etc in it, and the bacteria and fungi that would do the work for you. problem is input of oxygen - and of course water, but you can water that - but getting air into that spot is trickier.
I guess you could boost the soil life around it so that it invades the area under the sidewalk (softening the soil there too) and takes care of the dead root.
Intense epsom salt my kill the root (it is also a fertilizer but that only helps you when there is life in the soil and you can spread out the nutrients - but your soil under the sidewalk is covered, and for the most part cut off from water and even more so from air).
Too intense fertilizer in a spot is counter productive (that is why it kills plants if used in concentrated form).
IF there is any soil life that could help you in that spot - you likely kill it with too much epsom - inevitably it will be concentrated in one place.
The tree is already dead, it is unlikely the root will survive that. The tree did not grow out from the sidewalk, it is the EXTENDED root area that raised the sidewalk.
Extended root area from a cut down maple does not restart growth. the roots have a certain volume though and are kept moist under the "seal" of the sidewalk. Only when organic matter decomposes it shrinks in volume and for that you need SOIL LIFE. Especially fungi.
could you dig into the underground of the sidewalk (from the side, from your property) and install some L shaped pipes as air supply ? Where they are in the soil they would need to have holes (you can drill that with normal DIY tools). There are professional tools that are used do drill holes into soil, for fence posts for instance.So IF there is any chance to create a vertically drilled hole very close to that sidewalk area I would do that. - just make sure there are no lines (power, gas, ...) If the maple roots created enough damage in the sidewalk that there are holes at the surface - use them and make sure they stay open.
Maybe not using a pipe but some material like perlite and coarse gravel on top to make that a permanent entryway, and to protect it from being clogged up. Pipes would allow more airflow, but are also more visible and rain and maybe critters and slugs could enter - so you would have to take precautions. With coarse gravel or perlite, you are done.
If sideways digging is possibe. - insert some plastic tubes 8even if you do not get directly at the root area. You want to rehabilitate the soil in that area, for the whole area, you have to start somehwhere.
It is important to monitor how much rain goes into it. it is possible the area around the sidewalk would just soak it up, but you do not want to create anearobic swamp conditions.
If you can keep the part of your ground (where you started the sideway digging) accessible *, you could check
* coarse gravel that is easily removed - it will also allow the rain to
filter into that area and that moisture and subsequently soil life will also expand into the sidewalk underground. Any little niche that has enough air. They expand the aerated areas because the create structured air with many air pockets, and the roots shrink in volume and also create structure.
- if you see worms after a while you can assume your strategy works, and maybe you would also notice IF the sealed off area goes anaerobic. It depends how compacted it was because of construction, how much rainfall, etc. If anything the roots that you want to see gone help with the effor, because they broke the ground, however compacted. They created (potential) entryways.
And maybe a net on top of piples so no critters and slugs can get into it. But you could pour some compost tea or concotions with spores of fungi (collect some rotten wood or buy) into the pipes. This would create moist regions under the sealed off area and enable soil life to thrive. Once they eat away the roots these become air tunnels, so more microbes can live there.
If there are cracks in the sidewalk I would secure them with perlite or something like that. else some hardy weeds will grow in it and fill it up with dirt / soil. not a bad thing per se (that is how pioneer plants made the land fertile over time) but you want to proctect every little entryway for air and water from being occupied or clogged up.
Privets are used as hedging in some place in New Zealand.I get rid of the big privet tree along my boundary.Birds really love the berries but it stain the roof of my car because the tree overhang my driveway.
how long before it is really gone? so as if you dig down and plant something else?
Wow my stump grinder would take care of that in 2 minutes
justmeok45 bring that bad boy out to my property in California, I’ll put it to use on these3’- 4’ wide trees I just cut down.
I could really use a stump grinder. Not a cheap ass rental unit.
@@drsuperhero So could I. We live in Central Florida and it do be expensive to have a person grind stumps. Would be good to buy one but the price is more than we can afford.
Justmeok45 everybody don’t have access to a stomp grinder so I’ll take the home version
@@arlenebowers326 Have you ever consider burning them out? If you have a decent chainsaw, you can slice into the top similar to this video, and then light a fire on top with sticks. The fire travels down into those slices in the stump, and ends up burning the it from the inside out. Obviously, that method doesn't work if your stumps are close to buildings
dude, once the stump is cut, the pores are open. you have 20 minutes to apply a poison like roundup(pure strength), brush it on around the cambium layer. the pores close drawing in the roundup and the end!
If it is like the privets that grow wild around my house, every root will now spring out a bunch of babies.
The stump is not out of mind, it will still be around 40 or 50 years from now . With a lot of little spring babies coming out all the time. And your Great Grand children will have a tire swing hanging from your limbs.
You can harvest them for mulch and compost. (or bury them in soil).
whats the purpose of the salt if stump is below ground level? out of sight out of mind?
I'll bet these people who are so critical of his method have never tried to remove a stump, or for that matter, done any yard work such as they're doing.
Great idea! I watched the Epsom salt series first though so I had the understanding of how it works... I think a lot of the commenters here might have missed that.
did they ever finish the epsom salt series? I only saw up to part 3.
it still doesnt dissapear in a few minutes like the title stated
I love your little baby saw. It’s so cute. Maybe one day it’ll grow up to be a real saw.
Scott Warren - The saw would be fine, if it was properly sharpened.
😂 don’t do this unless you know what you are doing, blunt saws are more dangerous than sharp saws. This saw is very blunt and the video should not be shown.A professional would do that size tree for £20-40 with the stump removed.Better safe than sorry. 🤕😵Bad info sorry
All well and good if the weathers dry but in Manchester UK it's nearly always pissing down with rain, not only that but you can't do anything with that area of ground until the stump has rotted away.
Mushrooms !
How long will it take for the stump to disappear?
it depends on the size. mine took 4 years ( almost size of this gentleman).
Would it be easy to just use a big drill bit and drill holes in the stump?
Does the salt disintegrate rot away the stump? If so how long does it take?
I'm curious as to why you didnt winch it out? Plenty of leverage becauise of its height and safe to do so.
Top tip: don’t make a video about getting rid of a tree stump.
There are 100 of them
Lol " out of sight out of mind"
When you don't get rid of it...
Place a bag of match light charcoal the size of the stump diameter on the stump. Light the bag with the charcoal in it and let it burn safely. The charcoal will burn out the stump and even most of the big roots. The fire will burn under ground for a few days and your stump is go away. Fill in the hole, that will smother out the rest of the fire. Easy, cheap, and quick
One caveat: if the tree is near your house and the house has a crawlspace, burning is a no-no. The root fire can surface under the house. Oops!
Fungi (above and under the ground) time, and getting harvests of mushrooms in the meantime. Instead of smouldering the valuable stump away and releasing smoke into the air.