Life Best way to kill off a tree stump? - Page 5

**Bwana** · 03-15-2017, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Valiant

Be a man. Go buy flannel and an axe. Chop that shit to non existence. Then pour what ever liquid you want on it and bury it. You will also get some exercise in.

My neighbors removed a stump by placing a burn barrel over it at night time and a leaf blower to the side of it. Thing was gone the next day. Most of the neighbors did not know.

I would be all over it, but these damn things are right on the street.

HonestChieffan · 03-15-2017, 01:07 PM

Bwana....Tordon RTU is not restricted and available in small quantity. The key is a fresh cut exposed cambium layer. Then just squirt it all around the tree stump. If a bit drips down the bark side thats ok. You can do any time of the year. It id formulated with ingredients that will essentially mix with the sap and will be drawn into root system. Some species are more susceptible than others. I didnt read entire thread to see what they were....

**Bwana** · 03-15-2017, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

Bwana....Tordon RTU is not restricted and available in small quantity. The key is a fresh cut exposed cambium layer. Then just squirt it all around the tree stump. If a bit drips down the bark side thats ok. You can do any time of the year. It id formulated with ingredients that will essentially mix with the sap and will be drawn into root system. Some species are more susceptible than others. I didnt read entire thread to see what they were....

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.

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.

I just didn't want to chance pouring a new sidewalk and having a rouge root around that would heave my new sidewalk.

**lewdog** · 03-15-2017, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

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.

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.

I just didn't want to chance pouring a new sidewalk and having a rouge root around that would heave my new sidewalk.

Yea that's an excessive price for just having them do stump grinding.

We had a 30 ft tree cut down, taken away, stump killer added and stump ground 2 weeks later for $500.

Mike in SW-MO · 03-15-2017, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

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.

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.

I just didn't want to chance pouring a new sidewalk and having a rouge root around that would heave my new sidewalk.

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.

**Bwana** · 03-15-2017, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike in SW-MO

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.

Will do thanks.

stumppy · 03-15-2017, 01:58 PM

Why are you asking me ?

Oh

BlackHelicopters · 03-15-2017, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

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

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

**J Diddy** · 03-15-2017, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by theelusiveeightrop

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

Or that their names are Jesus and Maria and the government will pay for them to go south of the border.

BlackHelicopters · 03-16-2017, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by J Diddy

Or that their names are Jesus and Maria and the government will pay for them to go south of the border.

Heh

**Bwana** · 03-18-2017, 04:16 PM

Stick a fork in it.......

**Bwana** · 03-18-2017, 04:17 PM

It's done..........

jspchief · 03-20-2017, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

Stick a fork in it.......

American made equipment too. Vermeer is made in Pella, IA.

**J Diddy** · 03-15-2017, 05:39 PM

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

**Bwana** · 03-15-2017, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by J Diddy

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

Oh no, never! We have an understanding, they eat apples from my tree, I shoot them.

03-15-2017, 01:07 PM	#2
HonestChieffan Seeking the Truth daily Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the Country in MO Casino cash: $2014309	Bwana....Tordon RTU is not restricted and available in small quantity. The key is a fresh cut exposed cambium layer. Then just squirt it all around the tree stump. If a bit drips down the bark side thats ok. You can do any time of the year. It id formulated with ingredients that will essentially mix with the sap and will be drawn into root system. Some species are more susceptible than others. I didnt read entire thread to see what they were.... __________________ “Make no mistake. If you try anything to raise the cost of vishessavatubs, I will veto it.” - Joe Biden, SOTU 2023
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03-15-2017, 01:58 PM	#7
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03-18-2017, 04:16 PM	#11
Bwana It's Five O'Clock Somewhere Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Billings, Montana Casino cash: $2139343647	Stick a fork in it....... Attached Thumbnails __________________ Adventure is dangerous....but monotony can kill you.
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03-18-2017, 04:17 PM	#12
Bwana It's Five O'Clock Somewhere Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Billings, Montana Casino cash: $2139343647	It's done.......... Attached Thumbnails __________________ Adventure is dangerous....but monotony can kill you.
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03-15-2017, 05:39 PM	#14
J Diddy Don't Be A Dick Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Joplin Casino cash: $6777192	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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