I have to say that I am truly amazed by the comments section on this video. I have become accustomed to expecting negative comments on all youtube videos and it is unbelievably humbling to have this many comments and for most of them to be positive. THANK YOU!!
SHAWИEE HILLS / if you ever need to do this again try this .... i threw my old fishing motor gas on a huge stump ... 2 cycle oil and gas it soaked for a week down into the roots , came home poured a little more on it and lighted the stump .... it burned and smouldered for like 9 days.... even the roots burned under ground...... used a water hose to put it out and the sun come out the next day it would catch again and have flames shooting off it..... but it got rid of it
I’ve been watching this video at least 4 times a year since you posted. I have no stump to remove. It’s very relaxing hearing the music and fire burn the stump. Thank you for making this!
SHAWИEE HILLS WORKSHOP I’m not surprised! Truly is relaxing. Thank you for putting links to the drill and drill bit as well! When I own my first home I’m seriously gonna buy your set up. God Bless!
A foil barbecue set, placed on a tree stump, gave us a red hot root deep fire to cook breakfast on in the morning. Once that resin in the root takes hold, it'll smoulder slowly, for hours giving lots of heat too.
Nice little fire, but not the most awesome way to remove a stump. That distinction goes to my grandpa (H.E.) and his brother (A.P.) back in 1965, family farm, Russellville, KY. Large stump, about 6ft in diameter and three ft tall. Lumber from the tree was used to build our tobacco barn. They contemplated several strategies and decided on dynamite, but weren't sure how much to use. They drilled ten holes about two ft down, so they decided on ten sticks. In retrospect, it was a consensus that one stick would have been sufficient. The family gathered around to watch from about 50 yards out. They used a car battery to detonate the charges. There was a flash of light followed by the loudest boom I've ever heard, to date. It rained splinters for a good five minutes. Where the stump once stood was now a fourty foot hole in the ground that was about fourty feet deep. The hole started filling up with water, slowly at first, but picked up speed. Over night, the hole was filled and overflowing. A new spring of icey cold water had erupted and was now joined with the creek that ran through the farm. We had a new pond, one less tree stump and a ringing in our ears that continues to this very day.
I'm going to show this to my hubby, we have several stumps that need to be burned out. This was FAR more interesting than watching the Oscars tonight, seriously. Thank you for sharing.
as others have mentioned the roots will also burn underground. I remember when I was taking environmental resources classes at Humboldt State University. we were told about a fire of this type that burned for years, popping to the surface miles from where it had been started. It kept the rangers on their toes I imagine.
As a note for anyone who wants to try this. Depending on your area and how dense the trees are, the fire may travel through the root system underground and pop up a significant distance away. Root fires can smolder for a long time and be reignited if they run into more fuel that gives it a path to oxygen.
@@kakapofan6542 doesnt even have to be roots from trees, mycelium networks can span for miles upon miles underground, and the same thing can happen and it travels and smolders underground and it starts a fire miles away.
This is great! Lifelong city dweller moving to a wooded lot. Going to need this. I love those ah ha moments in life when you see something so sensible that you say how did I not think of that. It's kind of like the bottle cap or the shoe lace. Thank you!
Thanks for watching! I love to go backpacking and the whole time i was thinking this would be perfect to cook over. Although it is probably not a good idea to be lighting stumps on fire in the forest lol
Thank you ! Your video helped me burn out a 30" plus diameter stump in my back yard... I drilled a hole in the top but then I used a chain saw to cut a square out of the side to meet up with the hole from the top... then I added a blower into the side hole using a metal pipe to direct the air in the side hole and out the top hole... The result was incredible .. I burnt that stump down below ground level in less then 3 evenings... The blower I used was from a bounce house so it had very high CFM.. It worked like a champ !
I - oops a trespasser set some farm tires on fire 20 years ago. It was a gentle rain when Trespassing person started the fire . When my friends and I looked up from the porch after trespasser ran off. . It was clear skies out to the west and the rain stopped. Stars came out and a bunch of smoke . Trespasser learned from that episode I reckon . I bet he never has done that again .
I cant even spark a lighter on a calm day without the wind blowing. Waa climbing Mt hood in Oregon last year. My wind proof lighter wouldnt light in the wind at 11,000'. I was pissed 😂
A variation of the Swedish log stove many use at camp outs. Burning a chimney log (natural hole in center) propped up on a few stones for air feed, results in fun pulse-jet like campfires too. This “tuber” rediscovered old practices, but beware of underground fires along root system that can ignite trees and structures at surprising distances. Thanks for sharing!
FLASH POINT: The temperature at which a particular organic compoud gives off sufficient vapor to ignite in air The Flashpoint of Kerosene is 110 degrees Fahrenheit. I PROMISE PEOPLE there was no danger in having the Kerosene near the open flame. Look at the coat I am wearing, it was below 40F outside. Please do some research before commenting and posting links to articles that you don't even read!!!
Not sure what you are getting at here, but jet fuel is also considered a flamable liquid whose flashpoint is approximately 100F, so i could have had a container of jet fuel sitting beside the stump and been fine as well. Jet fuel fumes are also not volatile like gasoline.
hehe when i saw that i figured the comments would be chock full of retards telling you your KEROSENE was going to explode and kill everyone. ignore them boss you made a good video and you cant fix stupid no matter how hard you try
SHAWИEE HILLS nice relaxing video man, I will have to try this on some stumps at my place and with my neighbor. Keep doing you and enjoy life, ignore the idiots and above all God bless.
SHAWИEE HILLS One time at a father and son camp I remember one of the dads casually strolling up to the fire pit and throwing a propane tank into the middle of the fire to warm it up...Also had a relative once who poured a bunch of gas on a pile of branches, set the gas can quite far away, and suffered some serious burns when the gas can still managed to explode. I suppose incidents like this are what makes people cautious about possible explosions.
gljay I used my leaf blower to speed up the charcoal on my BBQ to get them ready to cook faster. I finally got a Traeger BBQ and am cooking in Ten minutes with wood and no blower needed.
I have a big stump at the end of the garden, lived with it for nearly 6 years and always planned to sort it "next year". Anyway I was about to hire a root grinder and sort it this weekend. Now I'm going to try your method. Looks almost foolproof (famous last words) going to do 4 holes round the sides and light it nice and early so I don't have to sit in the garden all night. Thanks again from Manchester England.
Just a suggestion: The size of hole you were drilling is perfect size for those road flares you get in them emergency travel kits. Stick one in each hole and light it - the intense fire off them flares should ignite the greenest of stumps and take care of it self from there until gone. wind will dictate which fuse in which hole gets the draft to the center vertical one..
Just a quick tip, when the above ground stump is gone, throw a piece of tin (I just used a piece of old corrugated barn steel) and a cinder block ontop of the below ground level stump (roots). Air will still get into the coals via the corragated ridges, it will keep the heat concentrated down in the hole, and you don't have to worry about the wind carrying embers away. It cooks the roots away much faster. Also, I use a mix of diesel fuel and used motor oil, trans fluid or whatever I have on hand and let it soak into the stump a couple days before I light it. Seems to act like a wick in an old oil lamp. Works good.
Good advice and good music. Thanks. I saw a similar stump burn where the guy used an electric leaf blower to FORCE air thru the stump. Took it out fast. Thanks.
Thanks for the video. I did that same thing with a green oak stump about 43" across, but I used paraffin (wax) instead of kerosene. I drilled multiple holes in the stump. Afterward, it burned for quite a while even underground. I used my DeWalt Hammer Drill with a bit comparable to the one you used. My stump burned for quite a while. I fed it more paraffin every once in a while.
I once lit a firework out of a stump when younger when parents were gone for week. It caught fire and smoked for days. Dad was really happy when he got home that it was gone lmao.
About thirty some years ago we did the same thing with about a two dozen stumps except for a week or so we poured some diesel fuel mixed wit old engine oil down the hole first.
When I was a kid my dad had a 1978 dodge power wagon 4x4 with a 360 v8, bored 30 over, Holley 650 double pumper, headers and a steel pipe welded to the frame for a bumper. He was the guy that pulled you out of the mud at the mud hole when you got stuck. The guy. Once, a friend of his had a stump that needed removed so they dug down a little and cut some roots with a chainsaw, wrapped a few chains around it and secured it to dad's truck and he yanked that sucker right out, I think on the third try. Boy we had half the neighborhood watching and it made for a real fond memory to this day. Fires are good and all, but theres no comparing a little camp fire to a stump half the size of a volkswagon bug being yanked out and dragged down the street like that.
Andrew P. speaking of stump...we had a football player in high school who everybody called stump. he was missing part of his left arm...but if he hit you with it it hurt like hell.
I saw someone doing just this on the outskirts and I did it to one stop and now got to do it to a larger stump. Thanks for the tips, I can correct on what I was doing.
I would assume it would work better on a freshly cut tree(maybe not though). This is an established method to remove stumps( although usually you are purchasing a chemical to break down the cellulose walls so the dead stump can absorb the kerosene). The package usually recommends charcoal briquets to ignite the saturated stump (probably to keep the heat going longer to ensure even burn).
One of the cautions that any expert would tell you could happen if one decides to burn stumps out. The roots could also be burning for weeks. Some municipalities prohibit such stump removing practices just for that reason. Big wide open farm land like he had no problem though.
I had the same idea! I'm glad someone else had the same idea! I did drill holes with the longest largest drill bit i had and my drill could hold, but not as long as the one you used. I drilled close to the edge on top and then one on side to meet the other hole. I also made a bunch of holes to pour gas into.I am using gas so hopefully gas will work as well as kerosene. I believe you can use deisel too. My stump has a hole in the middle on top going all the way down to the ground which i guess was rot. Because the stump is near my split rail fence I put up metal roofing sheets sideways and drilled to stakes surrounding the stump. Just trying to be safe and careful. I also raked and saved a ton of that stringy tree crap that we get in spring which is awesome for starting a fire. The tree was cut down a year ago, long story. But I hope it burns okay .
Yes, it works. I don’t think city ordinances would allow it but I’m rural so all is good. Neighbor across the road burned one out just like you showed. Best thing is, it smells good as it’s burning. Thanks for posting the video.
That works great, I've done it a few times. Didn't have money to buy or rent a stump grinder and I didn't have the foresight to think about making a mushroom garden out of it...
I saw a guy with the same kind of situation years ago. He had just built a very nice house and there was a stump a bit bigger than that about twenty feet behind the house. He had dug around and exposed the root system and found out that the sand dulled his chain saw so he tried to blow it out. He put a plastic garbage bag under the stump then filled it with propane with an old sock for a wick. When the bag was full of propane he lit the wick and stood back.It worked, sort of. The stump launched in the air and landed on the brand new roof of his brand new house. I like this method much better.
You'd need about 6oz of black powder to blow that up. Drill with a 30mm spade bit until you hit dirt. Add BP with an electric igniter (DIY makes on TH-cam) pack the hole with powdered cat litter and tamp it tight. Connect to battery, Admire crater where stump used to be. Spot stump wedged in neighbours roof. Run away.
Oooooh....fancy! I just build me a big ole bonfire round the stump - works good too. Best advice is to wait for damp day wit no wind cuz them darn stumps for sure like to burn all day and night and who the hell wants to stay up all night watchen em less you want to have a party all nite. Onetime I fell asleep in the lawnchair and when I woke it was all black around me and my boots was burnt but now I don't drink like that no more.
Watching an intentional fire is so mesmerizing. We bought a new home fairly recently and there are dozens of stumps on the property that have rotted pretty well in the middle. I think I will try this if I can find one that isn't too close to trees that we actually want to keep. Thanks for the video and instructions.
oh man we had a big oak tree that had died and was rotten and dry through and through, I set it on fire and it burned above ground for 3 days but under ground for two weeks and left a pretty good size hole in the ground too.
G'Maw's Garden That's good to know. We have a huge stump in our yard and I've wanted to burn it to get rid of it. Now I know the idea is dangerous, especially since we are in town. It is so large, it would probably burn for a long time. Maybe I will try the epsom salt idea, IDK?
I can tell you if you put a leaf blower or a fan on that, you'd have that thing producing 10x the heat. It's amazing what that'll do to increase burn rate.
Just remember, when you burn a stump you will likely also burn the roots. Those roots are long so be aware where they run. Think of what a forest fire burned area looks like in its aftermath. When I was a park ranger, the campsite firepits were sometimes placed over roots unknowingly. Cleaning removed some of the gravel base and soil. That got down enough that the campfire was hot enough to start a root fire that ran up the tree that was hollow. We saw the smoke pouring out of a knot hole. We had started a tree fire unintentionally. Not good on a campground.
I burned a big stump once. Took about a week for the roots to finish burning up too. Wasn't any danger of starting a fire but it was interesting to watch.
Interesting. I might have a chance to try this for myself. But I've been knocking over the trees with the root ball intact with my Construction grade FEL. Saves me a lot of post harvest clean-up. But you can bet I'll need this.
You misunderstood. I push the entire tree over with the FEL using leverage. The higher I put the bucket, the bigger the tree I push over. Then I de-stum. For what stumps I have in my Pine Forest, I'll have to use my backhoe or Dozer. I'm old and retired. Gotta use machines.
I understood, just typed the wrong word...i've got stumps on the brain..LOL. The reason I was saying you should video it is I would love to see the whole tree just get pushed over, I might have to try it myself sometime :o)
My neighbor was clearing a planned house area for me toward the front of the property. He was using a D-6 Dozer. I was using my FEL and taking down most of the trees while he used the dozer to move the downed trees. I will get some video in the Spring as we changed where we want the house more toward the back. Now we have a fairly flat 4 acre clearing. Perhaps that will become an orchard. I'll get a video of what I do.
Yeah, you also could wait until summer, then invite your family and friends with kids, tents, steaks, ribs, weenies and marshmallow on sticks, horror stories at bonfire in the night... It could be a lot of fun! ... just sayin'. STUMP REMOVAL PARTY TONIGHT! YUPIII!
Excellent! Thanks for the video. I combined your method with another which was to cut an "X" in the stump with my chainsaw and it worked great. Thanks again.
This is only recommended for non-resinous tree stumps in forests that are not dominated or even just partially forested in resin-bearing trees, i.e. non-conifers. Don't try this with conifer stumps. The root systems of conifers (perhaps some other trees, but I know for sure conifers, various pines, cedar, Douglas fir, various spruces) all are resinous, and this means a ground fire can ignite the roots, which can then smolder underground, with the embers traveling for hours, days, weeks, and even several miles before flaring up into an unexpected wildfire...which you can be held accountable for. So it's not recommended for the boreal forests of Canada & Europe/Asia, and it's not recommended for the West Coast. If you don't know what kind of wood it is, you'll want to do a scratch-and-sniff, literally chip away at the stump and get down there and sniff around to see if it has a turpentine, pine pitch, or other resinous scent. If it does, dig it out by hand with shovel and axe, use a chainsaw etc, call a contractor to grind it out, drill boreholes and cover the thing in damp epsom salt and a tarp for a few weeks before chiseling it out... Whatever it takes, just don't burn it out. The house, forest, and/or neighbors you save may be your own.
Thanks for sharing this. I have used Stump Out a lot but never thought it a good idea to light one afterward, for your mentioned fire risk reason. Now I understand a bit more regarding how the risk can occur, and there are not many situations where it is in fact safe (tree roots can run a long darn way, and if they get to other tree roots... the fire may spread). Not worth the risk, IMO. Although I guess in a really wet month, maybe it could work out oK. Good luck.
You are right. A friend of mine had a camp fire and covered it with dirt when finished. Two weeks later a nearby pine tree was burning. The only way it could be extinguished was by cutting into the centre of the tree with a chainsaw. It was thought that the camp fire had burnt a tree root, and then travelled underground to the tree.
I accidently lit and burnt down most of my farm doing this. Stayed up splitting alot of wood for a customer coming the next day and burned the scraps around a rather small but very annoying stump. Slept out by the campfire all good, next morning the Fire was put completely out with water, raked and then watered thoroughly again. Left to do a day of deliveries to later come home to the farm on fire, rather apparently from an underground root burning in relatively loose soil. I am not saying to not do it, but be very careful. When I put that fire out to leave, no one would have thought it wasn't adequately extinguished, seriously More times then not - it's a nice way to have a campfire while getting rid of an annoying stump, but be careful where you do it because it is possible something is burning underground far from where your fire/stump was
Great video. Much appreciated. I modified your technique by placing a cordless Hercules blower from Harbor Freight into one of the side holes using a small metal pipe to route the air into the hole. I left the blower on low speed and it accelerates the process exponentially. Took out most of a stump except for the edges on one a little bigger than the stump in your video. Also found that drilling smaller holes first with cheap 1/2" extended drill bits WITHOUT the screw tip (also Harbor Freight) followed by larger holes with a 1" by 18" Irwin ship auger (Amazon) makes drilling easier. You need a drill with serious torque. I used a Harbor Freight Bauer 7.5 amp drill and it got bogged down several times. Also tried a Bosch SDS rotary hammer drill (Bulldog) with adapter for standard drill bits but still not enough torque because of the internal and non-adjustable slip clutch. Next I will try a DeWalt 10 amp from Amazon for more torque. Thank you for posting this video - very helpful.
A steel ring/wheel rim set over the stump will burn it out.. like a truck wheel with the inner web cut out. Set rim around stump and start a fire on the upwind side in a couple of places. Small gaps under the rim allow the wind blast to torch out the stump. Save you drilling it... but what you did looks pretty good, too, just took drilling & cross-drilling.
You need not miss it, it's here: penguinscouts.com/Cleared.jpg Loggers got 1st shot at harvest, then used a D9 with v-blade to slice trees off at ground level. Those near creeks we (brother and I) did. Wind rowed and burned the remains. 35 years ago, it's now growing over again. First years was rice farm, heavy bottom land. About 750 acres or so.. more than a section, behind Harmon race track, south of Monroe, LA. Cheers.. it was something to see, that D9 dumping gum and oak trees, 100' tall, left and right. The loggers ran out of time, we had to get it ready for farming, no and, ifs or buts...
You can use a 55 gallon drum. Cut off the top and bottom. Just fill it halfway up with wood and it will start roaring away until he stump is totally gone. The drum helps the fire draft better and speeds up the destruction of the stump. No hole drilling needed.
I have to say that I am truly amazed by the comments section on this video. I have become accustomed to expecting negative comments on all youtube videos and it is unbelievably humbling to have this many comments and for most of them to be positive. THANK YOU!!
I know, right!
Here's your negative comment....WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS SOONER?
SHAWИEE HILLS / if you ever need to do this again try this .... i threw my old fishing motor gas on a huge stump ... 2 cycle oil and gas it soaked for a week down into the roots , came home poured a little more on it and lighted the stump .... it burned and smouldered for like 9 days.... even the roots burned under ground...... used a water hose to put it out and the sun come out the next day it would catch again and have flames shooting off it..... but it got rid of it
Ya where's all the "you used the wrong drill" or "wrong bit" and "I can't believe you lit that right beside the container of kerosene" comments lol
love it!
I’ve been watching this video at least 4 times a year since you posted. I have no stump to remove. It’s very relaxing hearing the music and fire burn the stump. Thank you for making this!
Irwin Wins wow, thanks for the comment! I’ve been amazed how many times it has been viewed
SHAWИEE HILLS WORKSHOP I’m not surprised! Truly is relaxing. Thank you for putting links to the drill and drill bit as well! When I own my first home I’m seriously gonna buy your set up. God Bless!
A foil barbecue set, placed on a tree stump, gave us a red hot root deep fire to cook breakfast on in the morning. Once that resin in the root takes hold, it'll smoulder slowly, for hours giving lots of heat too.
🤣 One day we will have a stump.
I still have a massive tree to cut down…😂
Nice little fire, but not the most awesome way to remove a stump. That distinction goes to my grandpa (H.E.) and his brother (A.P.) back in 1965, family farm, Russellville, KY.
Large stump, about 6ft in diameter and three ft tall. Lumber from the tree was used to build our tobacco barn.
They contemplated several strategies and decided on dynamite, but weren't sure how much to use. They drilled ten holes about two ft down, so they decided on ten sticks. In retrospect, it was a consensus that one stick would have been sufficient.
The family gathered around to watch from about 50 yards out. They used a car battery to detonate the charges. There was a flash of light followed by the loudest boom I've ever heard, to date. It rained splinters for a good five minutes. Where the stump once stood was now a fourty foot hole in the ground that was about fourty feet deep. The hole started filling up with water, slowly at first, but picked up speed. Over night, the hole was filled and overflowing. A new spring of icey cold water had erupted and was now joined with the creek that ran through the farm. We had a new pond, one less tree stump and a ringing in our ears that continues to this very day.
Thomas Morman wow, that is an amazing story!!
Always these guys tryna steal someones thunder lmao
Thomopolus Rex
Lol!! Now thats a story worth telling for years to come!
Dam nobody got time for your life story!Dam got bored just looking at it!
Thomopolus Rex A
That’s probably the most respectful way I’ve seen of removing an old stump.
I'm going to show this to my hubby, we have several stumps that need to be burned out. This was FAR more interesting than watching the Oscars tonight, seriously. Thank you for sharing.
Who is Oscar and what were people watching him for?
Hahaha! I think he was Felix's room-mate. ;)
American Woman Absolutely agree 100%
as others have mentioned the roots will also burn underground. I remember when I was taking environmental resources classes at Humboldt State University. we were told about a fire of this type that burned for years, popping to the surface miles from where it had been started. It kept the rangers on their toes I imagine.
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I'm still coming back to this. It is hands down THE best burning method of getting rid of stumps. Well done again!
This is some romantic stump burning music if I ever heard it
Lol
Letting go of a stump is never easy
For me it's like, Stump burning is a journey, not a destination saga.
You can’t just have your way with the stump. You have to set the mood.
Perfect excuse to drink all day on the weekend. Awesome video.
As a note for anyone who wants to try this. Depending on your area and how dense the trees are, the fire may travel through the root system underground and pop up a significant distance away. Root fires can smolder for a long time and be reignited if they run into more fuel that gives it a path to oxygen.
That’s interesting. And good to know
So it can start a wildfire?
@@kakapofan6542 yes it can, and days after the original fire is extinguished.
Good knowledge. Cheers
@@kakapofan6542 doesnt even have to be roots from trees, mycelium networks can span for miles upon miles underground, and the same thing can happen and it travels and smolders underground and it starts a fire miles away.
Also I think the music keeps the comments friendly. This is the most polite comment section I’ve ever seen
My wife and I just inherited a farm. This is perfect for the many stumps I have to remove. Thank you
must be nice
@@johnmitchell8925you so clam and comfortable
This is great! Lifelong city dweller moving to a wooded lot. Going to need this. I love those ah ha moments in life when you see something so sensible that you say how did I not think of that. It's kind of like the bottle cap or the shoe lace. Thank you!
really great video. Very calming too! that would have been a nice fire to cook from!
Thanks for watching! I love to go backpacking and the whole time i was thinking this would be perfect to cook over. Although it is probably not a good idea to be lighting stumps on fire in the forest lol
I watched the entire video but I don't have to remove a stump, who else?
same lol
same, but we know how to remove one should the need ever arise!
Haha, ye bro
Mark Serlé quite a few
Got 2, at least.
Thank you ! Your video helped me burn out a 30" plus diameter stump in my back yard... I drilled a hole in the top but then I used a chain saw to cut a square out of the side to meet up with the hole from the top... then I added a blower into the side hole using a metal pipe to direct the air in the side hole and out the top hole... The result was incredible .. I burnt that stump down below ground level in less then 3 evenings... The blower I used was from a bounce house so it had very high CFM.. It worked like a champ !
Redneck Mfg. dude, your channel looks awesome! You just gained my subscription!
That was a beautiful one-time-only campfire. Should've called the boys in for a night to remember.
Great idea and video, thanks!
This is my new favorite kind of video stop burning - I love it.
That's actually pretty darn Nifty something I'll have to keep in mind. Always amazed by people's Ingenuity and Imagination. A big thumbs up.
I found this video to be relaxing and oddly satisfying.
It's the music and also man's fascination with sitting around a campfire.
Me too. Watertown in the house.👍
you need Jesus.
This is the best stump removal video I have seen on youtube.
Wind don't blow till you try to light a fire! LOL
Crazy how that works huh? Every freakin time I go to light a fire hurricane force winds come in, lol!
Heh, yeah, to skill you up of course.
I - oops a trespasser set some farm tires on fire 20 years ago. It was a gentle rain when Trespassing person started the fire . When my friends and I looked up from the porch after trespasser ran off. . It was clear skies out to the west and the rain stopped. Stars came out and a bunch of smoke .
Trespasser learned from that episode I reckon . I bet he never has done that again .
I cant even spark a lighter on a calm day without the wind blowing. Waa climbing Mt hood in Oregon last year. My wind proof lighter wouldnt light in the wind at 11,000'. I was pissed 😂
Thank you. I am inside on a rainy, cool day and found this oddly satisfying.
A variation of the Swedish log stove many use at camp outs. Burning a chimney log (natural hole in center) propped up on a few stones for air feed, results in fun pulse-jet like campfires too. This “tuber” rediscovered old practices, but beware of underground fires along root system that can ignite trees and structures at surprising distances. Thanks for sharing!
I enjoyed this. The fire, the music, the concept.... This is a video for DIY people.
FLASH POINT: The temperature at which a particular organic compoud gives off sufficient vapor to ignite in air
The Flashpoint of Kerosene is 110 degrees Fahrenheit. I PROMISE PEOPLE there was no danger in having the Kerosene near the open flame. Look at the coat I am wearing, it was below 40F outside. Please do some research before commenting and posting links to articles that you don't even read!!!
SHAWИEE HILLS thank you for this video I have a few stumps I need to get rid of and I believe this is how I will do it
Not sure what you are getting at here, but jet fuel is also considered a flamable liquid whose flashpoint is approximately 100F, so i could have had a container of jet fuel sitting beside the stump and been fine as well. Jet fuel fumes are also not volatile like gasoline.
hehe when i saw that i figured the comments would be chock full of retards telling you your KEROSENE was going to explode and kill everyone. ignore them boss you made a good video and you cant fix stupid no matter how hard you try
SHAWИEE HILLS nice relaxing video man, I will have to try this on some stumps at my place and with my neighbor. Keep doing you and enjoy life, ignore the idiots and above all God bless.
SHAWИEE HILLS One time at a father and son camp I remember one of the dads casually strolling up to the fire pit and throwing a propane tank into the middle of the fire to warm it up...Also had a relative once who poured a bunch of gas on a pile of branches, set the gas can quite far away, and suffered some serious burns when the gas can still managed to explode.
I suppose incidents like this are what makes people cautious about possible explosions.
I would have used a leaf blower in one of the side holes to turbo charge the burn. Works wonders.
Just don’t pull the throttle let it idle.
Exactly my thoughts.
It works great in my outdoor Central Boiler/radiant floor heater for getting the big rounds going !
Exactly what I was going to comment. But I would cut it flush and use it to chop firewood if it were in an ideal spot.
gljay I used my leaf blower to speed up the charcoal on my BBQ to get them ready to cook faster. I finally got a Traeger BBQ and am cooking in Ten minutes with wood and no blower needed.
That's some of the nicest stump burning music I've heard.
Yes, very soothing
Christian Repenter its much better than the "let the bodies hit the floor" song
Christian Repenter my great grandmother planted that stump thousands of years ago
Matthew Leon she planted a stump? Why?
Heyemeyohsts Its the tree's grave (cries inside) Rip stump and tree
I have a big stump at the end of the garden, lived with it for nearly 6 years and always planned to sort it "next year". Anyway I was about to hire a root grinder and sort it this weekend. Now I'm going to try your method. Looks almost foolproof (famous last words) going to do 4 holes round the sides and light it nice and early so I don't have to sit in the garden all night. Thanks again from Manchester England.
Just a suggestion: The size of hole you were drilling is perfect size for those road flares you get in them emergency travel kits. Stick one in each hole and light it - the intense fire off them flares should ignite the greenest of stumps and take care of it self from there until gone. wind will dictate which fuse in which hole gets the draft to the center vertical one..
this was quite relaxing
there is something inherently relaxing about a fire, so I decided to go for a relaxing feel all around. Glad it worked!
BTW, i just checked out your channel and subscribed. Looked interesting!
Cranston Snord. Funny how that works huh? Thanks for watching and for the comments
Cranston Snord
I'd sure like to see that. you sticking a marsh mellow and holdin it over your screen lol. sure'd be a good sight haha
All those noisy birds at the beginning there, tell them to keep it down please. All that cheerful chirping. Lol.
Just a quick tip, when the above ground stump is gone, throw a piece of tin (I just used a piece of old corrugated barn steel) and a cinder block ontop of the below ground level stump (roots). Air will still get into the coals via the corragated ridges, it will keep the heat concentrated down in the hole, and you don't have to worry about the wind carrying embers away. It cooks the roots away much faster.
Also, I use a mix of diesel fuel and used motor oil, trans fluid or whatever I have on hand and let it soak into the stump a couple days before I light it. Seems to act like a wick in an old oil lamp. Works good.
Thank you for this info.!
so you lay a piece of corrugated sheet metal flat on top of the burning stump, correct?
@@sweeeetteeeeth yep.
@@wreckandraceify good stuff, thanks for the answer 👍
@@sweeeetteeeeth you're welcome.
Good advice and good music. Thanks.
I saw a similar stump burn where the guy used an electric leaf blower to FORCE air thru the stump. Took it out fast.
Thanks.
Thanks for the video. I did that same thing with a green oak stump about 43" across, but I used paraffin (wax) instead of kerosene. I drilled multiple holes in the stump. Afterward, it burned for quite a while even underground. I used my DeWalt Hammer Drill with a bit comparable to the one you used. My stump burned for quite a while. I fed it more paraffin every once in a while.
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Wow! You just saved me a ton of work. I've dug them out in the past and that takes a great effort and a lot of time. Great idea!
I once lit a firework out of a stump when younger when parents were gone for week. It caught fire and smoked for days. Dad was really happy when he got home that it was gone lmao.
Lmao john... Youre my cousin😂
Work fascinates me, I could watch it forever!
About thirty some years ago we did the same thing with about a two dozen stumps except for a week or so we poured some diesel fuel mixed wit old engine oil down the hole first.
Ah... finally a good use for dirty oil!
Turning the stump into a rocket stove seems to be the best way to get rid of it I've ever seem. Congratulations.
Might actually be a good reason not to bother cutting all the way to the ground...
I drilled holes in my stumps. Got used motor oil from a garage free! Poured oil in the holes and lit it up and lettit go!
Nice demo. A warm & relaxing video!
Legend has it it’s still burning to this day
lmao
Hahaha
It very could be burning underground. Many forest fires have started through the roots
WOW 5 million views!!! Awesome work!
I think I’m gonna burn a stump.. 😆
8.5 million now, 2 years later
9 000 000
@@satrahan552 lol, not quite, only 8.7m right now
@@TheRobman 8.8m
Did I really just watch a video of someone burning a tree stump. I must get a life
Dang me too
Plant some trees for YOUR future !
Don't beat yourself up we're all guilty
Nope, you must get a frying pan and other barbecue gear!!
this is life
One of the best parts you taught your daughter a very valuable lesson and experience. Brave
Brave?
When I was a kid my dad had a 1978 dodge power wagon 4x4 with a 360 v8, bored 30 over, Holley 650 double pumper, headers and a steel pipe welded to the frame for a bumper. He was the guy that pulled you out of the mud at the mud hole when you got stuck. The guy. Once, a friend of his had a stump that needed removed so they dug down a little and cut some roots with a chainsaw, wrapped a few chains around it and secured it to dad's truck and he yanked that sucker right out, I think on the third try. Boy we had half the neighborhood watching and it made for a real fond memory to this day. Fires are good and all, but theres no comparing a little camp fire to a stump half the size of a volkswagon bug being yanked out and dragged down the street like that.
I'm going to miss that old stump.
Andrew P. it WAS great stump, wasn't it?
Andrew P. speaking of stump...we had a football player in high school who everybody called stump. he was missing part of his left arm...but if he hit you with it it hurt like hell.
Yup, I am sitting here crying. It was a great stump.
You guys talking about the stump? Sure was a good one. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
Don't need a leaf blower.....I'll send my Mother-in-Law over.....she full of hot air and methane gas.
This is by far the top comment
Texas Jerry
Do we have the same mother in law? I swear the Dakota Pipeline doesn't have anything on my mother in law.
Texas Jerry when she gets tired you're welcome to my exwife. she's just as full of hot air and gas! Of course I'll pay airfare... one-way!
Texas Jerry - LOL, I love it!
My wife died and I appreciate you kind message.
Absolutely brilliant! And I would be amazed if 100,000 people hadn't already had the same idea....
The music for this vid was great. Made me wanna go campin'.
man, get a 6 pack and a few friends over... pretty cool camp fire haha
dynomax666 shit, that actually sounds like a good way to spend a Saturday night.
*Might as well cook a pot of beans with the fire you had goin......*
Or have a nice barbecue!!
Full English breakfast
We actually burned some stumps past weekend and decided to cook some brats and hamburgers 😊👍🏽
@@junkbusterstn well thats one way to get rid of the kids🤣🤣
Hilarious 🤣
I saw someone doing just this on the outskirts and I did it to one stop and now got to do it to a larger stump. Thanks for the tips, I can correct on what I was doing.
I was eating my sandwich and stumbled in to this video, so it's been 4 minutes and I still don't know why am I watching this??
Look at it this way: you now know how to get rid of an old tree stump.
Mike
Does this work on a young tree stump?
I would assume it would work better on a freshly cut tree(maybe not though). This is an established method to remove stumps( although usually you are purchasing a chemical to break down the cellulose walls so the dead stump can absorb the kerosene). The package usually recommends charcoal briquets to ignite the saturated stump (probably to keep the heat going longer to ensure even burn).
aroral11 lol
because since the beginning of humanity, men loves to watch a good fire!
I did this one time, I live in a desert region, the ground for several hundred feet around smoked for a week, the roots burned too. Scared me a little
Now you live in a desert region lol
Most of Northern Ontario canada bunt underground a long time ago like that rumor has it.
@@dannykapps Centralia, Pennsylvania for those who want to see videos. It’s pretty awesome
I was wondering about that.
One of the cautions that any expert would tell you could happen if one decides to burn stumps out. The roots could also be burning for weeks.
Some municipalities prohibit such stump removing practices just for that reason.
Big wide open farm land like he had no problem though.
Should be most amazing way to make smores! That night time shot of it smoldering was really neat!
I had the same idea! I'm glad someone else had the same idea! I did drill holes with the longest largest drill bit i had and my drill could hold, but not as long as the one you used. I drilled close to the edge on top and then one on side to meet the other hole. I also made a bunch of holes to pour gas into.I am using gas so hopefully gas will work as well as kerosene. I believe you can use deisel too. My stump has a hole in the middle on top going all the way down to the ground which i guess was rot. Because the stump is near my split rail fence I put up metal roofing sheets sideways and drilled to stakes surrounding the stump. Just trying to be safe and careful. I also raked and saved a ton of that stringy tree crap that we get in spring which is awesome for starting a fire. The tree was cut down a year ago, long story. But I hope it burns okay .
We did this with a tree stump about 15 years ago. This method works well and is fun!
Leaves Open Kerosene bottle next when starting a fire.
This guy knows how to live dangerous
It won’t catch fire like gasoline
Thanks for the reply.
Don't live dangerous 😂
The fire would have to make it into the jug to catch it on fire
Yes, but some idiot will do it with gas, and the fumes will go BOOM
Please don't take my comments seriously. I just think it's funny.
Yes, it works. I don’t think city ordinances would allow it but I’m rural so all is good. Neighbor across the road burned one out just like you showed. Best thing is, it smells good as it’s burning. Thanks for posting the video.
That works great, I've done it a few times. Didn't have money to buy or rent a stump grinder and I didn't have the foresight to think about making a mushroom garden out of it...
I saw a guy with the same kind of situation years ago. He had just built a very nice house and there was a stump a bit bigger than that about twenty feet behind the house. He had dug around and exposed the root system and found out that the sand dulled his chain saw so he tried to blow it out. He put a plastic garbage bag under the stump then filled it with propane with an old sock for a wick. When the bag was full of propane he lit the wick and stood back.It worked, sort of. The stump launched in the air and landed on the brand new roof of his brand new house.
I like this method much better.
Doug Fever hahaha
Sounds like a Farmers® Insurance ad. "We've seen it all"
I had a foreman in Cobalt Ontario name of Bill Sutton and I think he had seen it all.
I'll definitely try this in the future! very cool idea
Thanks man, it really did work well
Vintage Wood Workshop me too! I've had an oak stump in my front yard for a decade and definitely need to do this
Vintage Wood Workshop, can you believe this has blown up like it has?
SHAWИEE HILLS WOW! you've gone viral!! that's awesome man!! who would have thought a stump removal vid would do that??
You'd need about 6oz of black powder to blow that up. Drill with a 30mm spade bit until you hit dirt. Add BP with an electric igniter (DIY makes on TH-cam) pack the hole with powdered cat litter and tamp it tight.
Connect to battery, Admire crater where stump used to be. Spot stump wedged in neighbours roof. Run away.
This method works. I drill all my holes first . The side holes feed oxygen to the fire. 24 hrs later 85% gone
By far the easiest and most funniest way to remove stump. Bonfire and some smores. Thanks for sharing 🤙
Oooooh....fancy! I just build me a big ole bonfire round the stump - works good too. Best advice is to wait for damp day wit no wind cuz them darn stumps for sure like to burn all day and night and who the hell wants to stay up all night watchen em less you want to have a party all nite. Onetime I fell asleep in the lawnchair and when I woke it was all black around me and my boots was burnt but now I don't drink like that no more.
Jeff Murphy good luck stay clean
Lol
God bless the Irish.
Oh, so that's why it's called "Murphy's Law"
hahaha that's a good story so long as the burnt boots were the only damage
wow, that seemed to work really well! definitely seems worth drilling all around evenly
that was so satisfying to watch
EDGAR CARDOSO says the pyromaniac
I don’t know why but that video was very satisfying to watch
I always use the same 3 simple tools when removing tree stumps; *my neighbors: "Moe, Larry, and Curly."*
Watching an intentional fire is so mesmerizing. We bought a new home fairly recently and there are dozens of stumps on the property that have rotted pretty well in the middle. I think I will try this if I can find one that isn't too close to trees that we actually want to keep. Thanks for the video and instructions.
oh man we had a big oak tree that had died and was rotten and dry through and through, I set it on fire and it burned above ground for 3 days but under ground for two weeks and left a pretty good size hole in the ground too.
G'Maw's Garden That's good to know. We have a huge stump in our yard and I've wanted to burn it to get rid of it. Now I know the idea is dangerous, especially since we are in town. It is so large, it would probably burn for a long time. Maybe I will try the epsom salt idea, IDK?
Zephirin Drouhin Just pay someone to grind it out. It's the easiest way and doesn't even cost much
SE FullmetalJake thank you, we will do that.
Zephirin Drouhin take showel, axe, metal bar and destroy it
chinchin k. And that's how I got rid of a Stump in our garden over several years. Let it rod and enrage with a shovel
Love the soothing music as I watch a stump burn.
This is going be my winter project and have a nice fire at night at same time
Of all the amazing ways..this is the most amazing
The music should be on a tribute to grandma & grandpa ! A marriage that lasted forever
I need to remove stumps. Just not dead ones. Off to find dead ones now! Loved this!!
I can tell you if you put a leaf blower or a fan on that, you'd have that thing producing 10x the heat. It's amazing what that'll do to increase burn rate.
Second time watching. Just as good as the first.
LoL....
Just remember, when you burn a stump you will likely also burn the roots. Those roots are long so be aware where they run. Think of what a forest fire burned area looks like in its aftermath. When I was a park ranger, the campsite firepits were sometimes placed over roots unknowingly. Cleaning removed some of the gravel base and soil. That got down enough that the campfire was hot enough to start a root fire that ran up the tree that was hollow. We saw the smoke pouring out of a knot hole. We had started a tree fire unintentionally. Not good on a campground.
Bonnie Ecker oh
I burned a big stump once. Took about a week for the roots to finish burning up too. Wasn't any danger of starting a fire but it was interesting to watch.
You can't burn a root system unless you plan on having a small Silent Hill in your back or front yard.
once the stump burns, would flooding it with water address the risk of root fire?
I just told me friends about this.. it works. Thanks bro!
Me and my buddies would have been sitting around that stump in lawn chairs swapping war stories and drinking beer, thinking isn't life grand!
Interesting. I might have a chance to try this for myself. But I've been knocking over the trees with the root ball intact with my Construction grade FEL. Saves me a lot of post harvest clean-up. But you can bet I'll need this.
Glad you enjoyed it. You should post a video pushing the stumps up with your FEL.
You misunderstood. I push the entire tree over with the FEL using leverage. The higher I put the bucket, the bigger the tree I push over. Then I de-stum. For what stumps I have in my Pine Forest, I'll have to use my backhoe or Dozer. I'm old and retired. Gotta use machines.
I understood, just typed the wrong word...i've got stumps on the brain..LOL. The reason I was saying you should video it is I would love to see the whole tree just get pushed over, I might have to try it myself sometime :o)
My neighbor was clearing a planned house area for me toward the front of the property. He was using a D-6 Dozer. I was using my FEL and taking down most of the trees while he used the dozer to move the downed trees. I will get some video in the Spring as we changed where we want the house more toward the back. Now we have a fairly flat 4 acre clearing. Perhaps that will become an orchard. I'll get a video of what I do.
Why isn't there a grating with some steaks on, waste of a good fire.
Dang it.....I knew I forgot something!! LOL. It really would have been a perfect cooking fire.
Yeah, you also could wait until summer, then invite your family and friends with kids, tents, steaks, ribs, weenies and marshmallow on sticks, horror stories at bonfire in the night... It could be a lot of fun! ... just sayin'.
STUMP REMOVAL PARTY TONIGHT! YUPIII!
Otto Weber Don't forget the camper pies
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Great idea to grill some steaks.
Excellent! Thanks for the video. I combined your method with another which was to cut an "X" in the stump with my chainsaw and it worked great. Thanks again.
This is only recommended for non-resinous tree stumps in forests that are not dominated or even just partially forested in resin-bearing trees, i.e. non-conifers. Don't try this with conifer stumps. The root systems of conifers (perhaps some other trees, but I know for sure conifers, various pines, cedar, Douglas fir, various spruces) all are resinous, and this means a ground fire can ignite the roots, which can then smolder underground, with the embers traveling for hours, days, weeks, and even several miles before flaring up into an unexpected wildfire...which you can be held accountable for. So it's not recommended for the boreal forests of Canada & Europe/Asia, and it's not recommended for the West Coast.
If you don't know what kind of wood it is, you'll want to do a scratch-and-sniff, literally chip away at the stump and get down there and sniff around to see if it has a turpentine, pine pitch, or other resinous scent. If it does, dig it out by hand with shovel and axe, use a chainsaw etc, call a contractor to grind it out, drill boreholes and cover the thing in damp epsom salt and a tarp for a few weeks before chiseling it out... Whatever it takes, just don't burn it out. The house, forest, and/or neighbors you save may be your own.
Thanks for sharing this. I have used Stump Out a lot but never thought it a good idea to light one afterward, for your mentioned fire risk reason. Now I understand a bit more regarding how the risk can occur, and there are not many situations where it is in fact safe (tree roots can run a long darn way, and if they get to other tree roots... the fire may spread). Not worth the risk, IMO. Although I guess in a really wet month, maybe it could work out oK. Good luck.
You are right. A friend of mine had a camp fire and covered it with dirt when finished. Two weeks later a nearby pine tree was burning. The only way it could be extinguished was by cutting into the centre of the tree with a chainsaw. It was thought that the camp fire had burnt a tree root, and then travelled underground to the tree.
Very true I heard this happening to a guy. Burnt his own house down trying to get rid of a stump. And roots go further than you think.
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Thanks TH-cam for recommending I watch this for the third time
Makes me want to order a stump from amazon.
I have lots of them that you can have for free. Bring your shovel!
Gold.
Why don’t you invite the kids and have a little cookout we call hot dogs and hot dog buns and some s’mores to for dessert
I would, but only if they ship them already ignited.
🙂
Awesome. Another great day at the office.
Hot dogs and Marshmallows would’ve been the way to make a great night out of this.
with a taste of gasoline.
This video made me miss the days when I could buy dynamite at the CO-OP.
I accidently lit and burnt down most of my farm doing this.
Stayed up splitting alot of wood for a customer coming the next day and burned the scraps around a rather small but very annoying stump. Slept out by the campfire all good, next morning the Fire was put completely out with water, raked and then watered thoroughly again. Left to do a day of deliveries to later come home to the farm on fire, rather apparently from an underground root burning in relatively loose soil.
I am not saying to not do it, but be very careful. When I put that fire out to leave, no one would have thought it wasn't adequately extinguished, seriously
More times then not - it's a nice way to have a campfire while getting rid of an annoying stump, but be careful where you do it because it is possible something is burning underground far from where your fire/stump was
This is VERY TRUE. It's never a good idea to burn trees in highly oxygenated soil!
I have 2 stumps to do. Gonna give this a try. Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting ... and I like the music!!! Thanks.
Idk why but this was very satisfying and relaxing to watch 😂😂 I think I'll go cut a tree down just so I can burn a stump!
Just be careful that the tree does not fall on you or someone else and that the tree stump isn't covering a gas pipe Stephenhaha
Great video. Much appreciated. I modified your technique by placing a cordless Hercules blower from Harbor Freight into one of the side holes using a small metal pipe to route the air into the hole. I left the blower on low speed and it accelerates the process exponentially. Took out most of a stump except for the edges on one a little bigger than the stump in your video. Also found that drilling smaller holes first with cheap 1/2" extended drill bits WITHOUT the screw tip (also Harbor Freight) followed by larger holes with a 1" by 18" Irwin ship auger (Amazon) makes drilling easier. You need a drill with serious torque. I used a Harbor Freight Bauer 7.5 amp drill and it got bogged down several times. Also tried a Bosch SDS rotary hammer drill (Bulldog) with adapter for standard drill bits but still not enough torque because of the internal and non-adjustable slip clutch. Next I will try a DeWalt 10 amp from Amazon for more torque. Thank you for posting this video - very helpful.
Nice guitar, I could listen to that all day.
A steel ring/wheel rim set over the stump will burn it out.. like a truck wheel with the inner web cut out. Set rim around stump and start a fire on the upwind side in a couple of places. Small gaps under the rim allow the wind blast to torch out the stump.
Save you drilling it...
but what you did looks pretty good, too, just took drilling & cross-drilling.
That sounds like a good idea too!! I might have to try that on the next one!
Once? Acres and acres, Ima. The wheel rim was gifted to me by my neighbor, who showed me how to do it.
I like your idea booger...those augers are not cheap.
Thanks booger, I have at least 9 stumps. Your advice will help.
You need not miss it, it's here: penguinscouts.com/Cleared.jpg
Loggers got 1st shot at harvest, then used a D9 with v-blade to slice trees off at ground level. Those near creeks we (brother and I) did.
Wind rowed and burned the remains. 35 years ago, it's now growing over again. First years was rice farm, heavy bottom land.
About 750 acres or so.. more than a section, behind Harmon race track, south of Monroe, LA.
Cheers.. it was something to see, that D9 dumping gum and oak trees, 100' tall, left and right. The loggers ran out of time, we had to get it ready for farming, no and, ifs or buts...
You can use a 55 gallon drum. Cut off the top and bottom. Just fill it halfway up with wood and it will start roaring away until he stump is totally gone. The drum helps the fire draft better and speeds up the destruction of the stump. No hole drilling needed.
I was stumped until I watched this
I had a good laugh when you were holding that hand brace!
My old 1/2" milwaukee drill is still going strong too