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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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03-15-2017, 01:58 PM | #61 |
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Why are you asking me ?
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03-15-2017, 02:05 PM | #62 | |
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Tell everyone your stumps are Muslims. Let them devise innovative and efficient ways to kill them.
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03-15-2017, 05:07 PM | #63 | |
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We had a 30 ft tree cut down, taken away, stump killer added and stump ground 2 weeks later for $500.
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03-15-2017, 05:12 PM | #64 | |
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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. |
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03-15-2017, 05:39 PM | #65 |
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You make a blood oath with a squirrel. You swear to protect his nuts in exchange for his solving of your tree problem.
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03-15-2017, 05:42 PM | #66 |
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03-15-2017, 06:09 PM | #67 | |
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03-15-2017, 06:11 PM | #68 |
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Oh no, never! We have an understanding, they eat apples from my tree, I shoot them.
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03-15-2017, 06:29 PM | #69 |
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On a side note, here is a picture of one of the beasts.
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03-15-2017, 06:40 PM | #70 |
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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.
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03-15-2017, 06:53 PM | #71 | |
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03-15-2017, 08:56 PM | #72 |
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We have a place that rents stump grinders. Is that an option for you?
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03-15-2017, 10:05 PM | #73 |
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It is but.........see post 60.
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i'm a city-bred rat and i had some trees i couldn't kill in my yard. iowanian turned me on to tordon. got it at the tractor store at 291 and 23rd street. waited til spring, made a fresh cut across the trunk and applied the awesomeness that is chemistry... then the rotting stuff - a year (or two if really big stumps) and they are completely disappeared (like a russian dissident politician ) and they have stayed that way!! if i can do it, i'm pretty sure bwana can hadle it, just my $.02 worth... |
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03-16-2017, 12:25 AM | #75 | |
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just cut some nice wedges and pour/brush on the majik sauce... it will still work... |
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