Originally Posted by Bwana (Post 12783199)

So when I moved into this house 15 plus years ago the former owner had planted a couple of trees between the sidewalk and the street. Fast forward to last year and the roots had pretty much destroyed my sidewalk so I had them cut down last summer.

Now I have two big stumps that are still alive and I'm getting ready to drop $2500 to have the sidewalk replaced. I drilled a bunch of 1 inch holes in the stumps at the end of the summer and dumped something in the holes, but the beasts are still alive. I would burn the damn things, but the fire department would frown on such an activity. If I was in the country, I would blow them up with dynamite or just make a few pipe bombs to take them out, but obviously the neighbors would become restless when their windows blew out. :hmmm:

I checked into having someone come over with a stump grinder and they are WAY to pound of their services. So is their a good chemical out there to take these wooden bastards to the promised land that anyone has had success with? I hear good things about this but I honestly have no idea if this is going to take them out.

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Originally Posted by Bwana (Post 12784472)

Yeah It looks like I bought the right stuff for sure.

I called the rental outfit to check on the price of a stump grinder and they are $200 a day. I was excited until he told be he wouldn't recommend using it on anything bigger that 20 inches. One stump is 34 and the other is 36. :shake:

I was shooting the shit with one of my neighbors and asked him if he knew anyone that grinds stumps. He didn't but called another guy that hooked me up with a guy he used. The stump wrangler came over and told me if I paid him in cash and did the chip cleanup that he would do them both for $275. The two other guys I talked to were closer to $800-850. I asked when can you get started? They should be a memory by the end of this weekend. :D I just didn't want to chance pouring a new sidewalk and having a rouge root around that would heave my new sidewalk.

Originally Posted by Bwana (Post 12784472)

Yeah It looks like I bought the right stuff for sure.

I called the rental outfit to check on the price of a stump grinder and they are $200 a day. I was excited until he told be he wouldn't recommend using it on anything bigger that 20 inches. One stump is 34 and the other is 36. :shake:

I was shooting the shit with one of my neighbors and asked him if he knew anyone that grinds stumps. He didn't but called another guy that hooked me up with a guy he used. The stump wrangler came over and told me if I paid him in cash and did the chip cleanup that he would do them both for $275. The two other guys I talked to were closer to $800-850. I asked when can you get started? They should be a memory by the end of this weekend. :D I just didn't want to chance pouring a new sidewalk and having a rouge root around that would heave my new sidewalk.

Originally Posted by theelusiveeightrop (Post 12784524)

Tell everyone your stumps are Muslims. Let them devise innovative and efficient ways to kill them.

Originally Posted by Mike in SW-MO (Post 12784880)

Normally after grinding, you leave the chips mounded up & they rot down to level. In this case, rake out the chips from under where the sidewalk will be then backfill & compact the dirt or baserock.

If you pour the sidewalk over a layer of chips, they will rot away leaving a void under the sidewalk.

Which will proceed to crack and fall in.

Originally Posted by J Diddy (Post 12784933)

You make a blood oath with a squirrel. You swear to protect his nuts in exchange for his solving of your tree problem.

Originally Posted by Buzz (Post 12785021)

I took out a good 3 foot wide hedge apple tree, drilled holes and dumped tree killer on it and got tired of waiting, ended up building a fire over it with a bag of charcoal. Whatever you do and kill the stump, eventually it will leave a sink hole and you will have to fill in later, hope that doesn't screw up your new walk way.

Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 12785216)

We have a place that rents stump grinders. Is that an option for you?

Originally Posted by Chief Pote (Post 12783243)

A fresh cut into the stump during growing season, brush the chemical on the fresh cut. Consider it dead.

Originally Posted by Bwana (Post 12783334)

The thing is, the top of stumps are pretty hard at this point and I'm not sure it will soak in like it should. I would give it a fresh cut but I would need a bigger saw then I own to get that done. These things are about 36 inches.