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UTBIowaDave · Jun 14, 2011

We've got 4 tree stumps on our acreage, the largest about 3 ft in diameter and two feet high, the smallest about 18", sticking up several inches (Just high enough to hang up the belly mower). Usually I just let these go for several years then burn them out, but I can just 'feel' the two in the front yard working their way onto the massive honey-do list assosciated with a daughter graduating in two years. Any advice on what I should expect to pay to have them removed with a grinder? All can be accessed easily and no clean-up would be required, just "grind and go". If I decide to do it myself, any advice on what to rent?

C.R. · Jun 14, 2011

friend of mine had a stump on his lawn,he cut it off low,and piled a bag o charcoal on it and it burned up no trouble at all!!

omahagreg · Jun 14, 2011

I know a family that has a tree service. They suggested, and I found it worked as descrbed, to drill 1/4" holes as deep as you can. Then sprinkle table salt in the holes. I found it rotted it all in a year!

dej(Jed) · Jun 14, 2011

(quoted from post at 07:18:36 06/14/11) We've got 4 tree stumps on our acreage, the largest about 3 ft in diameter and two feet high, the smallest about 18", sticking up several inches (Just high enough to hang up the belly mower). Usually I just let these go for several years then burn them out, but I can just 'feel' the two in the front yard working their way onto the massive honey-do list assosciated with a daughter graduating in two years. Any advice on what I should expect to pay to have them removed with a grinder? All can be accessed easily and no clean-up would be required, just "grind and go". If I decide to do it myself, any advice on what to rent?

I have burned them out on more than one occassion. Once you get them started they will burn for days. It just kind of sets there and smolders.

Allan in NE · Jun 14, 2011

Had seven taken out a few years ago. Think it cost me $180 total, which I didn't think was too darned bad.

Sad part is nowadays the dollar is all but worthless. A razor blade costs $2.25? Please......

Allan

tjdub · Jun 14, 2011

You can rent small stump grinders from rental places these days. I'm not sure those little guys can do the job on that 3ft stump, but I'd be willing to bet going that route would be a lot cheaper than hiring it done.

tech5201 · Jun 14, 2011

Most commercial tree companies will give you a free estimate.

T

old · Jun 14, 2011

I had one like that one time. I drilled a number of big holes in it and then poured diesel fuel on it about a cup a day for 2 weeks. I then poured a little bit of gas on it and lit it up and it burned for a good weeks. Big problem was I then had to fill in the holes where the roots had burned

thurlow · Jun 14, 2011

If you've got an 8N or something similar, I'd think about pulling them up; that seems to be the thing to do, based on what I read 'here'.
:>)

Brokenwrench · Jun 14, 2011

Around here in central MN the going rate is 1.75-2.00 an inch. It is measured at the widest point at the base of the stump. Alot of them also charge around $25 for a base charge.

My guess would be around $150.00 to take em both out. Usually the price drops per inch the more you have to do.

Just make sure whoever grinds them, especially the bigger one, that it goes at least 6 inchs below the ground.

Remove most of the stumpage and fill with black dirt. Unless you want a mushroom patch, that is.

ohiojim · Jun 14, 2011

hey thurlow,...next time you pull a 3 foot stump with an 8N let me know,..i wanna watch LOL

dlplost · Jun 14, 2011

I usually lay an old tractor rim on them, fill with charcol/wood let the Kids toast marshmellows for a week, when they're done the stump is too.

offand gone · Jun 14, 2011

I have problems pulling them with a 220 sized track hoe. I have to do some digging around the roots and sometimes splitting them out.
Frank

flying belgian · Jun 14, 2011

You got to be kidding me. That would be a neat trick.

Inno · Jun 14, 2011

I would dig 'em out with the backhoe....then you have a couple years to get the holes filled and the grass growing good on them....you're gonna have some holes to fill if you burn it anyway. If you get it ground out with a machine you may not have seen the end of it.
I too want to see a 8N pull one of 'em. Please post a video of that!! :lol:

Anonymous-0 · Jun 14, 2011

He was being sarcastic. For two stumps, just go to Home Depot or a rental yard and rent a stump grinder. You could probably get a pretty good estimate to have it done over the phone too.

Jeff-oh · Jun 14, 2011

Do you make sure you pull from a point above the rear axel too?

Here is a picture of Thurlow's 8N....

641Dave · Jun 14, 2011

(quoted from post at 19:46:33 06/14/11) He was being sarcastic. For two stumps, just go to Home Depot or a rental yard and rent a stump grinder. You could probably get a pretty good estimate to have it done over the phone too.

Yep.

Last I checked it was right around $100 for a 24 hour rental and then some for a security deposit.

I've burned a few out with mesquite. If you go that route, you might want to tend to it and keep your coals on top of the stump, every now and then hack at the stump a little to let air get into the smoldering part.

By the way, I cut and killed about 40 stumps of mesquite and locust trees this spring with a bottle of tordon rtu mixed with about a 1/2 gallon of diesel. I sprayed the stumps right after I cut them and not one of the tree stumps have tried to re-sprout. I figure that isn't to bad for about $25 of stump juice.

Gun guru · Jun 14, 2011

I watched my neighbor use a Diesel driven stump grinder, he used it for one weekend and ground out about 75 or so stumps. This grinder will throw chips and you cant stand in front of it. (this was several years ago)

I have cut the stumps off flush with the ground and then covered with topsoil and then seed with grass....Its all gone. A lot cheaper then grinding or digging out with a backhoe.

thurlow · Jun 14, 2011

Where'd you get that picture? My lawyer (Michael Dean Nordoff) said that he'd confiscated all of them...........

Geo-TH,In · Jun 15, 2011

I make stump covers. Use landscaping timbers, frame out the stump, fill with dirt and add flowers. End up with raised flowers beds.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 15, 2011

Cut out a hole in the middle, start some charcoal going and enjoy..Upside down shopping cart and a metal leafrake and you got the makings for a barbQ and weanie rost...........

Bret4207 · Jun 15, 2011

Not to be a wise guy, but if it's going to be a "big deal" for your daughter because of her graduation party that you'll have to pay for, then I'd had the daughter a shovel and a mattock and tell her to put her education to good use.

ralph wilton · Jun 16, 2011

just go to your local fertilizer dealer and get some 32% liquid nitrogen pour that on it and it will rot out in a year all for about 5 bucks

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