But it usually takes 2 bales of straw and 5 gallons of diesel for him to start a burn pile. The Capt. seems to have figured out very efficient ways to start his burn piles.
Apples to oranges, we are looking for ways for homesteaders to burn stumps. Not contractures who have hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment 👍 anything can be made to look easy when you have big equipment and revenue from the job to spend
Chris Guins using 5 gallons of diesel to start a fire? Not in this lifetime. He’ll squeeze a penny til it screams He also uses more than one technique to start his fires; he’ll take burning coals from one fire to start another, for instance
I, to, tried it - and got the same results. Paid a guy $2.150.00 to come and grind out 26 stumps! He did an awesome job. When he was done, it was like he was never there. Very satisfied! Great video. Thanks, Mike! Lee
I usually burn them whilst still in the ground, but I take a big wood auger bit (like 1" or larger) and bore a big grid of close together holes as deep as I can, then dribble some old stale gas, maybe some old dirty parts washer fluid (mineral spirits) possibly a bit of leftover motor oil from oil changes, etc into the holes, let them soak in and hour or so then light it up- the whole stump usually burns down well below the ground most times......
I am of the mindset that is no one proper way to burn a stump. It just the enjoyment of watching it burn away while you fiddle with it and killing time. Not a beer drinker anymore but certainly would be a good beer drinking activity. I once was burning an old stump and had been successful getting it burned to below ground level. I woke up the next morning and saw a little bit of smoke coming from the ground several feet away from the old stump. Overnight the fire traveled down the roots of the old tree. Keep having fun with the wood burning and keep sharing.
I took down a blacksmith shed once, and I found five buckets worth of coal. So I put coal on top of burning charcoal. I had one stump that burned the roots about 4 feet out from the stump.
Best way is to put a burn pit around it and just start a big fire. It will burn it into the ground burning roots and all. We have done this multiple times. It works.
Maybe a smaller draft hole ? Even just a plung cut or two ! I love the Swedish torch stoves, with dry wood instant heat , and bigger rounds burn a long time !
yup, just throw the stumps around a fire pile, let'em dry out, then burn them directly, and finally dig a hole and drop them in. 😉 Good video, Captain.👍
I put vegetable oil or tiki torch fluid on it every day for about 3 to 5 days. Put a metal ring around it light it and forget about it. It takes about a week of smoldering but it all burns out.
When I was a lot younger we would bury stumps in a ditch where water was eroding the ground. Along the edge of a field or any washout. They deteriorate in a few years and are gone but makes good soil where they rotted.
Not sure it would work on a "Stump" (Green?) but the Swiss taught me a trick that works every time on "Logs". Take your chain saw and cut the top like an 8 slice Pizza about 3/4 down the length of the Log. Start your fire at the apex of the pizza slices. It is "Self Cleaning" of ashes as they drop out the sides. They use them as "Drive Way Candles" ... very cool for parties.
The best way to burn a stump to drill holes both vertically going straight down into the Tree stump but not all the way through and Then you fill it up with old cooking oil or diesel fuel or kerosene and let it soak it up but make sure you cover it up in case it rains that way doesn’t get wet do that for about a week or two or and then depending on how big the stump is you take an old 55 gallon drum You cut the bottom off and then you put it over stump filling up with pieces of old lamb another scrap wood and then You set it on fire
If If If the stump is in a pasture area or deer habitat you might consider a non-chemical approach..the charcoal residue and blackened stump can and will be helpful to cattle and I suspect deer as well, it treats worms and absorbs toxins from their digestive systems, Stony Ridge Farmer posted a video of this recently
I have soaked stumps with lighter fluid and let it sit a day, added a little extra fluid and burned them. Some had left holes in the ground. Usually the older pine stumps. Probably some fat lighter in them as well.
i drill several holes in the stump using wood boring bit- diesel/ poured on stump let soak in then i have a steel fan and i have a 6 ft metal pedestal fan-i lay it across my metal sawhorse pointed straight down at the fire- works great for me-- also use charcoal after i grill while still hot as accelerant
Trapped moisture is the problem. Time being out of the ground lets the moisture get out of the roots. This also dries the mud. Roots and mud shrink away from each other as they dry and eventually the dirt falls off if you bounce the stump a couple of times. Dry and insignificant dirt, the stumps then burn easily. That's about 2 years for your size stump. If you don't want to wait 2 years... stack a big fire and dump the damp and dirty stumps on top where the heat of the fire accelerates drying and keeps the stump lit. There's a reason "LetsDig18"/Chris uses big burn piles. The big piles cook the stumps dry and then the stumps burn up, without waiting for the stumps to dry. All of the other ways to burn the stump are trying to get them to dry themsleves out using the wet wood of the stump as fuel and they all have issues until the stump dries.
I have stump burning air supply I built from a furnace exhaust blower, a shop vac hose, a 4 ft length of 2 inch sch 40 pipe and a wooden valve I made on the inlet of the blower to control the airflow from zero to full. Using your 2 hole tech, I control the airflow to keep a steady fire. As the center burns, you need to add wood to keep a hot flame next to the stump. The pipe will have to be moved from time to time to keep it at the base of the flames.
Well, I don't have a dog in this hunt anymore, mesquite has tap roots that go entirely through the planet, so that if I pull on one in Texas, a funny looking tree in Australia gets a shorter. But back when I lived in the eastern half of Texas, I found the most effcient way to do it was to do what you said, bust the dirt off, and put them on top of a burn pile. I tried all the drilling, soaking, coring, fueling, and a bajillion other methods, but they took a whole lot more work, and like you alluded to for yourself on the main channel, I had more projects than time to fool with them.🙄
I spent a year burning a 36" stump out of my backyard, but it was a labor of love (I'm a pyro). Started out with pretty much as you did, but burned the entire root ball down to 2-3" roots as it sat in the ground.
I did this. It took me about ten minutes to get the fire to stay lit, then I wrapped it with a couple old metal roof sheetings and placed one on top. I left a gap at the bottom and one on the top for ventilation. It burned for two days. Trapping the outside heat seemed to work for me
I have 7 pine stumps to do that to, Mike! I’ve been letting them age but that takes about 5-7 years and then I get a little richer lighter from them! It’s just letting them sit as a eyesore! lol 😂 Your idea and getting the dirt off is really the best way Mike, that’s more or less what Chris does! Letsdig18, you know! lol Thanks for sharing Captain! Kirk from Louisiana, sending prayers and good vibes for you and your family Mike! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@kirk467, I don't think you have to let those pine stumps dry. They'll probably burn wet. Lay a bunch of branches down first and pile the stumps on top. Put some dry sticks or balled up newspaper in any nook to catch the branches on fire or use a propane torch like this guy. Those stumps have so much sap you could probably light them easily. I live north east of Abita Springs and after Hurricane Katrina I had over a hundred trees down. Mainly big pines, big water oaks and some big live oaks got uprooted. The only aging was the time it took me to get to them. Working 13 days on, 1 day off and 16 hours a day for about a year, it took my wife and me about that long for us to work our way around my 8.7 acres. Also, when you start your kindling fire, if you can get a lawn mower near the stump pile, aim the wind from the discharge chute at the small fire and watch those stumps burn. Good luck.
This idea is probably not the brightest idea LOL but if the worry is the dirt could you pressure wash it off? It kinda sounds like a lot of extra work but if the dirt stops them from being put on the burn pile i've seen guys who do like ant hill casting have a lot of sucess with power washing dirt. I was really hoping the stump hole idea would work I have one in my mom's yard I want to burn. I was thinking not using the vent hole and just allowing the natural hollow that is inside the stump be my location for my fire but I wondered if it would be better DEEPER inside the stump?
Interesting try...never tried to burn a stump myself, but going by guys like your buddy Dirt Perfect, or Letsdig18 and other channels stumps apparently really really really don't want to burn and are a real bastard to get rid of. Short or long I look forward to what other attempts you make
Extreme heat gets that big wood. When the wildfires come though by where i live in CA the places that got so hot that the stumps burn all the way down through the roots are in the places that had huge amounts of excess fuel and the winds were whipping 50+ mph when the fire came through. Try recreating that, like wait until the hottest and driest time of year pile on 25 feet of bone dry wood, branches, and twigs set up a huge industrial fan then light it up!
Burn pile (that’s why everybody does it that way…because it’s the most effective way). Rocket stove method is for people that don’t have or have access to equipment and don’t want to pay someone else.
Cap’n the best luck that I’ve had is to cut them off as close to the ground as you can and let them dry out. Then, drill holes through the top of them as deep as you can with a your largest auger bit… fill them with diesel fuel, cover them to keep the rain out and let that soak in for about a week, adding more fuel as it absorbs. Uncover the stump and drill horizontal holes that intersect with a few of the vertical holes. Then… use your fire sword to light the stump. When the fire starts to wane, add air. When that makes a bowl in the stump… fill it with charcoal. That burnt two huge oak stumps out of my front yard… took about four days of burning.
I would make the vertical hole wide enough to fit one end of a car jack and move the lever rod until the stump crack open and can be ripped off the ground in two chunks. If there is any solid tree near the stump we can use the car jack to rip the stump off the ground using a steel wire rope.
Another tip to try. Best stump burner ever, use grass clippings. Pile them over the stump when you burn it and the clippings act as an insulation to slow burn it for a couple of days and you will be lucky to find any evidence of stump or root system when all is done.
Try cutting the side cut into the wind. Maybe some better air flow might make it run better. Also, more holes, if you're already making a side cut go the whole way through. It might be overkill but a NSEW set of side holes to get her burning. 🔥🔥
I’ve never tried it, but I’ve always wondered… what if you pressure washed off all the mud and rocks then cut the roots off until it was all relatively firewood. It’d make for cool experiment.
I let trees and stumps sit a year or so to dry out and decay before burning. I use a bounce house fan to burn stumps and do it on rainy days like all my disposal fires (I cover the stump to keep it dry beforehand). Works fine but if in a rush I'd just rent a proper stump grinder.
@Kleeman1 my father said his father's stump remover was a mixture of sugar and weed killer (sodium chlorate), tightly packed into a hole, with a long fuse. It also worked well for making rocks fly.
Just light a fire near the base and blow air at it with a hair drier taped to a length of steel pipe. I have an old hair drier that does not heat but the motor still works on 12 volts. I hooked a solar panel to it and have burned some stumps in my yard. I quit when they burn below ground level a few inches. The pipe allows putting the air where you want the fire to go to.
Cut down through the stump so that you have a bunch of connected wedges going around kind of like a sliced round cake only out of wood. Then you can put some kindling down in and a little charcoal lighter fluid or use the propane tank with the weed burner and light the puppy up. You’ll always have wind blowing in at the base no matter what direction the wind is blowing because you have slits going down all the way around it. I’ve seen this done, but never tried it myself and even though it worked for them, it may not work for you. I say this because I tried the let’s bore a hole down the middle, and then one in from the side for air flow Kind of like what you did only I used a big old auger and that did not work for me. If nothing else if you Cut it into wedges and have to throw it onto a burn pile, it’ll help the flames get to the center and burn it down quicker.
Thanks for sharing, not sure if that was successful in eliminating an extra stump, but if you wanted a long burning cooking fire I think it may have been a success. My only true success burning was wild grape vines in a burning barrel with a leaf blower. Stuffed the barrel full and it was just smoldering, added the air and sent a column of fire 40’ into the air. Sounded like a jet engine and burned out in less than 20 min. Wishing you and your family the best.
Best way to do it is the Swedish torch method. Cut it diagonally 4 times, then cut the centre out and a small hole at the bottom. Light it up and leave it.
Just toss it onto the pile. And it will take moving it to the next pile as they go through the process of burning down. 😂 it’s called work till it’s gone 😊
Can only imagine you at work. Everyone else trying to put out fire and you are in the window with 3 leaf blowers and chunks of firewood to keep it going. You sure love fire 😂😂😂😂
I'm guessing that heat never built up because capillary action kept on sucking up water from the ground and the heat was lost to evaporation, even if the tree tissue was dead. I don't see much use in keeping the stump and would cut it as close to ground as possible before trying to get rid of the rest. Digging out or power washing the earth around the stump first, followed by a bonfire set atop it for 6 hours or so would probably do a lot to remove moisture so you can do further removal.
you have a lot of potential Swedish torches why don't you do them as torches and put them around the pond one night when you have a party it would last you quite a few parties and would look fantastic, just a thought Mike up to you once you find the best way to make them burn, and lets be honest when you are finished with them throw them on a burn pile but enjoy what you brought.
Captain, I am not a pro, BUT, I seen a video on you tube. 😂 put a bottomless barrel over it after you get the fire started. And then just crammit full of debris. Seems to me your tank is too small. Bigger tank more fuel, ( sticks ). 😆 You just flat crack us up with your commentary. Your next line, for future use, " I kill me!" Keep up the great work, love it. Hey just a thought, maybe you and MBTS, could invest in a itsy bitsy bobcat back hoe and a wheel barrow and give DP some competion? I bet Ace HW would sponsor you with the wheel barrow and maybe even a shovel. KISS. Keep it simple silly. Have some fun. See ya.
all of the 'rocket stove' designs show the wood in the sideways hole, not in the upwards chimney hole. feed the horizontal opening and get fire going; them keep it stuffed to increase air velocity in the combustion area. creates high temps in the chimney area for small amounts of fuel. -yeeks, who said that?
I say do that same method, but flip it upside down so it the intake hole is now the chimney. It’ll forsure burn since ya know, heat rises.. good attempt though 🤘🏼
Getting dirt off and out hands down best. The way you just tried works much better if you saw down slits and have "firewood" standing up. The lower you go with the saw the better the result.
No not sure exactly about burning it that way but that is good for a rocket stove if you need to cook outdoors. Honestly getting a nice big roaring fire and setting them in is best but trying to get as much of the dirt off that’s bottom as possible.
The stumps are just too green to burn when they first come out of the ground. Wait a year and try this again. I'm with you that the best way is to knock the dirt off of them then throw them on top of a burn pile. I was surprised you didn't do that with atleast a few of these.
Try putting 3 more holes in it. One across and two on either side of it, like N S E W. Might need 8 holes. But make them smaller, you need air velocity.
Not sure there is a good answer! With the thumb on my excavator and the tree in one piece I try to remove as much dirt/rock debris and include the stump in my original burn pile. Not very creative but works best for me! Returning to the pile to restack is a must. Enjoy the videos, thanks!
Attempting to burn old tree stumps is easy if a guy has plenty of money to burn! Many folks say Magnesium does the job but I wonder how much it costs x how many Stumps a person has to get rid of? The easiest way is to keep them on the top of a larger burn pile after they have dried out to some degree. If it were easy to do we wouldn't have so many How to videos!
One of the benefits of a stump is that they burn for hours. With that in mind I’d be inclined to build your campfire around one stump and let it burn all night with good people. Forgetting in the moment that hangovers are a thing of course… After knocking the dirt off of course
Seems like a difficult way to get rid of a stump, since it's probably not dry enough to burn. Why is this the chosen method? I've never heard of it. I don't do this type of work, but this got my curiosity up...
roots and stump, thats where the moisture is son. Turn them upside down, and get the dirt off then let them dry until next year. then they'll burn unless your in a hurry then it's used oil and diesel. Keep smilin
Nobody burns stumps better than Letsdig18
Chris does a good job with stumps, however Capt. Has a bit different technique..... after all he is a fireman...........
But it usually takes 2 bales of straw and 5 gallons of diesel for him to start a burn pile. The Capt. seems to have figured out very efficient ways to start his burn piles.
Apples to oranges, we are looking for ways for homesteaders to burn stumps. Not contractures who have hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment 👍 anything can be made to look easy when you have big equipment and revenue from the job to spend
Chris Guins using 5 gallons of diesel to start a fire? Not in this lifetime. He’ll squeeze a penny til it screams
He also uses more than one technique to start his fires; he’ll take burning coals from one fire to start another, for instance
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I've never burnt a stump but I've watched about a 100 videos of stump burning and I have a strong opinion. It's basically a sport, like fishing.
Very well said 😂😂😂😂
Its not job that has to be done.
Its a hobby 😂
It's basically a sport, like fishing......................... ONLY MUCH MORE POINTLESS
Good evening Mike. Nothing wrong with the way you burn stumps. Do what makes you happy, not everyone else. Thanks for sharing.
I, to, tried it - and got the same results. Paid a guy $2.150.00 to come and grind out 26 stumps! He did an awesome job. When he was done, it was like he was never there. Very satisfied! Great video. Thanks, Mike! Lee
I usually burn them whilst still in the ground, but I take a big wood auger bit (like 1" or larger) and bore a big grid of close together holes as deep as I can, then dribble some old stale gas, maybe some old dirty parts washer fluid (mineral spirits) possibly a bit of leftover motor oil from oil changes, etc into the holes, let them soak in and hour or so then light it up- the whole stump usually burns down well below the ground most times......
I am of the mindset that is no one proper way to burn a stump. It just the enjoyment of watching it burn away while you fiddle with it and killing time. Not a beer drinker anymore but certainly would be a good beer drinking activity.
I once was burning an old stump and had been successful getting it burned to below ground level. I woke up the next morning and saw a little bit of smoke coming from the ground several feet away from the old stump. Overnight the fire traveled down the roots of the old tree.
Keep having fun with the wood burning and keep sharing.
I took down a blacksmith shed once, and I found five buckets worth of coal. So I put coal on top of burning charcoal. I had one stump that burned the roots about 4 feet out from the stump.
You are hysterical! Your humor makes us laugh. The wasp getting sprayed, the daughter got a promotion, etc.. keep it ip
Best way is to put a burn pit around it and just start a big fire. It will burn it into the ground burning roots and all. We have done this multiple times. It works.
That's a very large rocket stove Mike. Get the coffee pot on it.👍😁
Maybe a smaller draft hole ? Even just a plung cut or two ! I love the Swedish torch stoves, with dry wood instant heat , and bigger rounds burn a long time !
yup, just throw the stumps around a fire pile, let'em dry out, then burn them directly, and finally dig a hole and drop them in. 😉
Good video, Captain.👍
I put vegetable oil or tiki torch fluid on it every day for about 3 to 5 days. Put a metal ring around it light it and forget about it. It takes about a week of smoldering but it all burns out.
I tried that as well with the same results. I think your method of on top of the burn pile is about the best way.
When I was a lot younger we would bury stumps in a ditch where water was eroding the ground. Along the edge of a field or any washout. They deteriorate in a few years and are gone but makes good soil where they rotted.
Not sure it would work on a "Stump" (Green?) but the Swiss taught me a trick that works every time on "Logs". Take your chain saw and cut the top like an 8 slice Pizza about 3/4 down the length of the Log. Start your fire at the apex of the pizza slices. It is "Self Cleaning" of ashes as they drop out the sides. They use them as "Drive Way Candles" ... very cool for parties.
another great video, stumps green burning pretty good
yep burn pile lots of heat, stumps on top
The best way to burn a stump to drill holes both vertically going straight down into the Tree stump but not all the way through and Then you fill it up with old cooking oil or diesel fuel or kerosene and let it soak it up but make sure you cover it up in case it rains that way doesn’t get wet do that for about a week or two or and then depending on how big the stump is you take an old 55 gallon drum You cut the bottom off and then you put it over stump filling up with pieces of old lamb another scrap wood and then You set it on fire
If If If the stump is in a pasture area or deer habitat you might consider a non-chemical approach..the charcoal residue and blackened stump can and will be helpful to cattle and I suspect deer as well, it treats worms and absorbs toxins from their digestive systems, Stony Ridge Farmer posted a video of this recently
I have soaked stumps with lighter fluid and let it sit a day, added a little extra fluid and burned them. Some had left holes in the ground. Usually the older pine stumps. Probably some fat lighter in them as well.
To be honest, I have no clue how to burn a stump. But it's nice looking at what you're trying to do.😊
i drill several holes in the stump using wood boring bit- diesel/ poured on stump let soak in then i have a steel fan and i have a 6 ft metal pedestal fan-i lay it across my metal sawhorse pointed straight down at the fire- works great for me-- also use charcoal after i grill while still hot as accelerant
Trapped moisture is the problem.
Time being out of the ground lets the moisture get out of the roots. This also dries the mud. Roots and mud shrink away from each other as they dry and eventually the dirt falls off if you bounce the stump a couple of times.
Dry and insignificant dirt, the stumps then burn easily. That's about 2 years for your size stump.
If you don't want to wait 2 years... stack a big fire and dump the damp and dirty stumps on top where the heat of the fire accelerates drying and keeps the stump lit.
There's a reason "LetsDig18"/Chris uses big burn piles. The big piles cook the stumps dry and then the stumps burn up, without waiting for the stumps to dry.
All of the other ways to burn the stump are trying to get them to dry themsleves out using the wet wood of the stump as fuel and they all have issues until the stump dries.
I have stump burning air supply I built from a furnace exhaust blower, a shop vac hose, a 4 ft length of 2 inch sch 40 pipe and a wooden valve I made on the inlet of the blower to control the airflow from zero to full. Using your 2 hole tech, I control the airflow to keep a steady fire. As the center burns, you need to add wood to keep a hot flame next to the stump. The pipe will have to be moved from time to time to keep it at the base of the flames.
Well, I don't have a dog in this hunt anymore, mesquite has tap roots that go entirely through the planet, so that if I pull on one in Texas, a funny looking tree in Australia gets a shorter. But back when I lived in the eastern half of Texas, I found the most effcient way to do it was to do what you said, bust the dirt off, and put them on top of a burn pile. I tried all the drilling, soaking, coring, fueling, and a bajillion other methods, but they took a whole lot more work, and like you alluded to for yourself on the main channel, I had more projects than time to fool with them.🙄
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I spent a year burning a 36" stump out of my backyard, but it was a labor of love (I'm a pyro).
Started out with pretty much as you did, but burned the entire root ball down to 2-3" roots as it sat in the ground.
I did this. It took me about ten minutes to get the fire to stay lit, then I wrapped it with a couple old metal roof sheetings and placed one on top. I left a gap at the bottom and one on the top for ventilation. It burned for two days. Trapping the outside heat seemed to work for me
Pick up stump with backhoe, drop in trailer or truck, take to dump.
I have 7 pine stumps to do that to, Mike! I’ve been letting them age but that takes about 5-7 years and then I get a little richer lighter from them! It’s just letting them sit as a eyesore! lol 😂 Your idea and getting the dirt off is really the best way Mike, that’s more or less what Chris does! Letsdig18, you know! lol Thanks for sharing Captain! Kirk from Louisiana, sending prayers and good vibes for you and your family Mike! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@kirk467, I don't think you have to let those pine stumps dry. They'll probably burn wet. Lay a bunch of branches down first and pile the stumps on top. Put some dry sticks or balled up newspaper in any nook to catch the branches on fire or use a propane torch like this guy. Those stumps have so much sap you could probably light them easily. I live north east of Abita Springs and after Hurricane Katrina I had over a hundred trees down. Mainly big pines, big water oaks and some big live oaks got uprooted. The only aging was the time it took me to get to them. Working 13 days on, 1 day off and 16 hours a day for about a year, it took my wife and me about that long for us to work our way around my 8.7 acres. Also, when you start your kindling fire, if you can get a lawn mower near the stump pile, aim the wind from the discharge chute at the small fire and watch those stumps burn. Good luck.
Captain Kleeman, any way you do it is going to be a good video. 👍 😊😅
This idea is probably not the brightest idea LOL but if the worry is the dirt could you pressure wash it off? It kinda sounds like a lot of extra work but if the dirt stops them from being put on the burn pile i've seen guys who do like ant hill casting have a lot of sucess with power washing dirt. I was really hoping the stump hole idea would work I have one in my mom's yard I want to burn. I was thinking not using the vent hole and just allowing the natural hollow that is inside the stump be my location for my fire but I wondered if it would be better DEEPER inside the stump?
Interesting try...never tried to burn a stump myself, but going by guys like your buddy Dirt Perfect, or Letsdig18 and other channels stumps apparently really really really don't want to burn and are a real bastard to get rid of. Short or long I look forward to what other attempts you make
Extreme heat gets that big wood. When the wildfires come though by where i live in CA the places that got so hot that the stumps burn all the way down through the roots are in the places that had huge amounts of excess fuel and the winds were whipping 50+ mph when the fire came through. Try recreating that, like wait until the hottest and driest time of year pile on 25 feet of bone dry wood, branches, and twigs set up a huge industrial fan then light it up!
Burn pile (that’s why everybody does it that way…because it’s the most effective way). Rocket stove method is for people that don’t have or have access to equipment and don’t want to pay someone else.
I agree burn pike is the most effective
Cap’n the best luck that I’ve had is to cut them off as close to the ground as you can and let them dry out. Then, drill holes through the top of them as deep as you can with a your largest auger bit… fill them with diesel fuel, cover them to keep the rain out and let that soak in for about a week, adding more fuel as it absorbs.
Uncover the stump and drill horizontal holes that intersect with a few of the vertical holes. Then… use your fire sword to light the stump.
When the fire starts to wane, add air. When that makes a bowl in the stump… fill it with charcoal.
That burnt two huge oak stumps out of my front yard… took about four days of burning.
We learned what does not work perfect. Plus I had coffee while I watched so I got that goin.
Mike your idea is the best remove as much dirt as possible and burn em on a big pile till gone.
Cut down in a pie shape to create a Swedish torch & it will allow airflow continuous
Top of a burn 🔥 pile yup unless your going to get beer & play feed sticks to the stump hole 😂🍺🔥😊👍
My wife says I'm dinking around when I do stuff like that 😂. It's a squirrel from the real work we are doing
I would make the vertical hole wide enough to fit one end of a car jack and move the lever rod until the stump crack open and can be ripped off the ground in two chunks. If there is any solid tree near the stump we can use the car jack to rip the stump off the ground using a steel wire rope.
I use charcoal to burn stumps it even burns the roots. Fill it with the charcoal
That is more efficient that burning dollar bills.
If you stuck a metal tube on the top to enhance the chimney effect it would burn on its own.
Another tip to try. Best stump burner ever, use grass clippings. Pile them over the stump when you burn it and the clippings act as an insulation to slow burn it for a couple of days and you will be lucky to find any evidence of stump or root system when all is done.
Wonder what would happen if you made a hole and put some charcoal in it? Just a thought sir. Thanks
Try cutting the side cut into the wind. Maybe some better air flow might make it run better. Also, more holes, if you're already making a side cut go the whole way through. It might be overkill but a NSEW set of side holes to get her burning. 🔥🔥
Love your videos, always great stuff.
I’ve never tried it, but I’ve always wondered… what if you pressure washed off all the mud and rocks then cut the roots off until it was all relatively firewood. It’d make for cool experiment.
If you could easily cut the roots, nobody would try to burn stumps. :)
@@Bob_Adkins would they collect them instead?
I let trees and stumps sit a year or so to dry out and decay before burning. I use a bounce house fan to burn stumps and do it on rainy days like all my disposal fires (I cover the stump to keep it dry beforehand). Works fine but if in a rush I'd just rent a proper stump grinder.
1lb nicely packed and boom no more stump, now that would be fun to see Mike
🤣 that would do it!
@Kleeman1 my father said his father's stump remover was a mixture of sugar and weed killer (sodium chlorate), tightly packed into a hole, with a long fuse. It also worked well for making rocks fly.
Capt--you really are a fireman--haha
Cut a cross cut down the centre of the tree stump.
Just light a fire near the base and blow air at it with a hair drier taped to a length of steel pipe. I have an old hair drier that does not heat but the motor still works on 12 volts. I hooked a solar panel to it and have burned some stumps in my yard. I quit when they burn below ground level a few inches. The pipe allows putting the air where you want the fire to go to.
Cut down through the stump so that you have a bunch of connected wedges going around kind of like a sliced round cake only out of wood. Then you can put some kindling down in and a little charcoal lighter fluid or use the propane tank with the weed burner and light the puppy up. You’ll always have wind blowing in at the base no matter what direction the wind is blowing because you have slits going down all the way around it. I’ve seen this done, but never tried it myself and even though it worked for them, it may not work for you. I say this because I tried the let’s bore a hole down the middle, and then one in from the side for air flow Kind of like what you did only I used a big old auger and that did not work for me. If nothing else if you Cut it into wedges and have to throw it onto a burn pile, it’ll help the flames get to the center and burn it down quicker.
This is called a Swedish Torch....works quite well.
Thanks for sharing, not sure if that was successful in eliminating an extra stump, but if you wanted a long burning cooking fire I think it may have been a success. My only true success burning was wild grape vines in a burning barrel with a leaf blower. Stuffed the barrel full and it was just smoldering, added the air and sent a column of fire 40’ into the air. Sounded like a jet engine and burned out in less than 20 min. Wishing you and your family the best.
Right, the stump put out the fire eventually because it's still green.
Having the leaf blower would have fed the embers much longer.
it makes a good way to cook food on
High volume hose wash the rootball and pile them up.
How about you drill the holes in the stump like you did in this video but this time putting an extra tall chimney of some sort on the top hole?
Best way to do it is the Swedish torch method. Cut it diagonally 4 times, then cut the centre out and a small hole at the bottom. Light it up and leave it.
Just toss it onto the pile. And it will take moving it to the next pile as they go through the process of burning down. 😂 it’s called work till it’s gone 😊
What is it firefighters being the biggest firebugs..lol. I’d love a series on stump burning because I’m also a huge firebug myself!
You definitely have the right daytime career
White phosphorus is supposed to be really hard to put out once it starts to burn. That should do the job! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
try using a 55 gl. drum with the top and bottom cut out to hold the heat
helps a lot if you wait a couple years for the wood to season...
Cut more air slots around the base.
Can only imagine you at work. Everyone else trying to put out fire and you are in the window with 3 leaf blowers and chunks of firewood to keep it going. You sure love fire 😂😂😂😂
Big brush pile fires burn stumps pretty efficiently
Now what ya gotta do is ..... ya get some sticks of dynamite 🧨 right
I'm guessing that heat never built up because capillary action kept on sucking up water from the ground and the heat was lost to evaporation, even if the tree tissue was dead. I don't see much use in keeping the stump and would cut it as close to ground as possible before trying to get rid of the rest. Digging out or power washing the earth around the stump first, followed by a bonfire set atop it for 6 hours or so would probably do a lot to remove moisture so you can do further removal.
the stumps basically sitting in a puddle of water as the top dries and burns the water is quenching it .
you have a lot of potential Swedish torches why don't you do them as torches and put them around the pond one night when you have a party it would last you quite a few parties and would look fantastic, just a thought Mike up to you once you find the best way to make them burn, and lets be honest when you are finished with them throw them on a burn pile but enjoy what you brought.
Captain, I am not a pro, BUT, I seen a video on you tube. 😂 put a bottomless barrel over it after you get the fire started. And then just crammit full of debris. Seems to me your tank is too small. Bigger tank more fuel, ( sticks ). 😆 You just flat crack us up with your commentary. Your next line, for future use, " I kill me!" Keep up the great work, love it. Hey just a thought, maybe you and MBTS, could invest in a itsy bitsy bobcat back hoe and a wheel barrow and give DP some competion? I bet Ace HW would sponsor you with the wheel barrow and maybe even a shovel.
KISS. Keep it simple silly. Have some fun. See ya.
Drill holes with auger bit and fill/let soak with diesel??
If your inlet is smaller than your outlet, the air will speed up and act more like a rocket.
all of the 'rocket stove' designs show the wood in the sideways hole, not in the upwards chimney hole. feed the horizontal opening and get fire going; them keep it stuffed to increase air velocity in the combustion area. creates high temps in the chimney area for small amounts of fuel.
-yeeks, who said that?
Try a big hole in the top and dump old fryer oil in the hole and let it soak in the log for a few days and then dump it into a nice hot fire.
I've never been the first commenter. Love the videos!
Hey Michael and Charlotte.🐶I’m thinking the stump was not seasoned and the inlet was too big .
I say do that same method, but flip it upside down so it the intake hole is now the chimney. It’ll forsure burn since ya know, heat rises.. good attempt though 🤘🏼
2 stroke fuel down the guts, no side air cut just bore a hole down the guts, soak it in fuel and let it burn
That should make for a viral video. 🔥💥
Getting dirt off and out hands down best.
The way you just tried works much better if you saw down slits and have "firewood" standing up. The lower you go with the saw the better the result.
What happens if you make a bunch of round vertical auger bit holes in a circle around the center, each with its own horizontal air supply hole?
Multiple holes might work better as long as it's DRY.
No not sure exactly about burning it that way but that is good for a rocket stove if you need to cook outdoors. Honestly getting a nice big roaring fire and setting them in is best but trying to get as much of the dirt off that’s bottom as possible.
You need more air coming in and best way to do it is to make 4 or 8 vertical cuts into the log so it can pull air from all sides
You need to cut four slots down as well, just look up Swedish torch.
Oooh, sciencey stuff, cool😀👋🇬🇧
Try boring another hole in other side so air can funnel through
Also charcoal would help
The stumps are just too green to burn when they first come out of the ground. Wait a year and try this again. I'm with you that the best way is to knock the dirt off of them then throw them on top of a burn pile. I was surprised you didn't do that with atleast a few of these.
Try putting 3 more holes in it. One across and two on either side of it, like N S E W. Might need 8 holes. But make them smaller, you need air velocity.
Leaf blower plus oil drum opened at both sides and the stump plus is burnt. The oil drum dries out the stump as it’s cooking
Not sure there is a good answer! With the thumb on my excavator and the tree in one piece I try to remove as much dirt/rock debris and include the stump in my original burn pile. Not very creative but works best for me! Returning to the pile to restack is a must. Enjoy the videos, thanks!
you forgot the liquid corn fuel capt (shine)
Don't waste " shine ", on a stump🍻😂
Nicely done
Attempting to burn old tree stumps is easy if a guy has plenty of money to burn! Many folks say Magnesium does the job but I wonder how much it costs x how many Stumps a person has to get rid of? The easiest way is to keep them on the top of a larger burn pile after they have dried out to some degree. If it were easy to do we wouldn't have so many How to videos!
That video speaks for its self.
The best way is to use petrol, I find if you pour that petrol into a stump grinding machine it will make quick work of the stumps.
I tried this with a hollow stump with a opening at bottom. Didnt work like i thought it would
One of the benefits of a stump is that they burn for hours. With that in mind I’d be inclined to build your campfire around one stump and let it burn all night with good people. Forgetting in the moment that hangovers are a thing of course…
After knocking the dirt off of course
Seems like a difficult way to get rid of a stump, since it's probably not dry enough to burn.
Why is this the chosen method? I've never heard of it. I don't do this type of work, but this got my curiosity up...
roots and stump, thats where the moisture is son. Turn them upside down, and get the dirt off then let them dry until next year. then they'll burn unless your in a hurry then it's used oil and diesel. Keep smilin