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Best way to kill off a tree stump?
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. 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. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 |
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03-14-2017, 05:34 PM | #2 |
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There is some powder I bought at the hardware store. Put it on the stump and it decays it. Results aren't immediate but it worked for me. Took about a season and then it was all out of there. Had to go back a few times to gradually remove the decayed wood though. If you put it on there more often than I did it probably works even quicker. Don't know if that would work well for really big stumps though.
Think it was something like this: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Spectraci...20-4/202097353
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03-14-2017, 05:40 PM | #3 |
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Tordon if you can get it. If not 2-4D is labeled for it. You have to keep a towel saturated. I don't know how it's worked but it is labeled.
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03-14-2017, 05:43 PM | #4 | |
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I was hoping you would chime in, see my link above. I ordered two of them earlier this morning. So you think that will smoke them huh?
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Great news, I'll be sure to glove up for the task. How quick does the stuff work?
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Clearly what you need is antifreeze.
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03-14-2017, 05:49 PM | #9 |
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Heh, I wish I could get off that cheap.
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**** stump grinding. Did that myself and now I have little spots where trees are trying to grow.
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Well from what these guys are saying, if you drill some holes in what's left Tordon RTU should take care of it.
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It would have to jump across the sidewalk to get on the main grass. Any roots that go under the sidewalk I plan to take out with my chain saw as well.
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