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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, 06:02 PM | #16 |
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I like the sound of that. What I was going to do was drill out some fresh 1 inch holes and dump some in each hole, do you think that will take it out. These are about 36 inch stumps.
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I've used this on some smaller stumps and it worked. just painted it on with a foam paint brush
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diesel fuel... soak it to to 3 days then set it on fire
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Tordon is what my tree service uses when we can't get a stump cutter to the stump
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I would love to, but no doubt the fire department would be over here graveling my ass about it.
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Nice so you think drilling 1 inch holes in the beasts and dumping it into the holes will work?
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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.
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Drill holes, fill with epsom salt then place a tarp over it to rob it of sunlight.
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WTF isn't this in the landscaping thread!? Mod Abuse!!!
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Dude, you should try killing a bougainvillea. Prettiest weed ever. Dynamite is the only way.
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We drilled holes in ours and poured tons of shit down the holes and covered the stump with it. I do not remember what it was.
2 weeks later we paid someone to grind down the stump as the HOA doesn't allow stumps to be present in the front yard for long per landscape guidelines (****ers). The landscape thread has some knowledgeable posters. Check there.
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