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You mucked it up by grinding it down. Having done plenty of these annoying jobs, best way is to leave a waist height trunk above ground that you can attach a come-a-long to and apply tension while you go around the base with a reciprocating saw, stabbing it into the dirt and pulling it across wherever you feel root tension resisting. Done loads like that and its no bother. Your stuck with using a spade now and nothing to pull the trunk with to show you the roots needing chopped.
You get those steel handled spades that are about 5 or 6 foot long, thin headed with chisel like edges, great for stabbing around the trunk cutting the roots and allowing you to apply a huge amount of leverage. All the best.
You get those steel handled spades that are about 5 or 6 foot long, thin headed with chisel like edges, great for stabbing around the trunk cutting the roots and allowing you to apply a huge amount of leverage. All the best.
I used conc Nitric Acid....it works eventually.......I cut them below ground level, drilled them, filled the holes with acid and buried them.....Some time later I had a look and they were crumbling......Ive no idea where you could get the acid these days
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Never heard of that one.
eBay is the source of most things these days, glycophospate is a controlled weed killer that needs licence permits etc to buy from the agri supplier. eBay just requires payment
someone suggested it to me and I could get the acid from work......so gave it a go......it worked but as mentioned it might have anyway.......only ever done it once
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Pretty sure that's what we used to use in stumps back when I was in that game.
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Lotions and potions do work if you have the time to wait, burning perhaps if they are rotten and drowned in something like old engine oil. If the stumps are now buffed off just below ground level you will need to find an anchor for a tirfor, a wide strap around a tree thats still standing or dig down the side of one of the bigger stumps and tie on to a lateral. Dig a trench around the base of each stump, expose the laterals and dig under the biggest one using that to winch from. lightly tension and use a buzz saw with carbide encrusted clusters to cut through the roots while teasing them out with the winch.
A must have for cutting through dirty timber, you only need to expose the top of the laterals, these blades are not affected by soil .https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TERRASAU...320753?hash=item3a63f84f31:g:c8AAAOSwYGBZjDbH
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If they dull off just turn them around.
A must have for cutting through dirty timber, you only need to expose the top of the laterals, these blades are not affected by soil .https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TERRASAU...320753?hash=item3a63f84f31:g:c8AAAOSwYGBZjDbH
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If they dull off just turn them around.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Time is my enemy these days with 2 young kids another on the way and a wife who works weekends. I just will not get any free time to get digging unfortunately so that is out the window. Any free time is spent renovating the house, keeping cars on the road or a bit of family time.
The acid is an interesting one I will look into that.
And from the comments burning them out does not seem to a popular option.
Time is my enemy these days with 2 young kids another on the way and a wife who works weekends. I just will not get any free time to get digging unfortunately so that is out the window. Any free time is spent renovating the house, keeping cars on the road or a bit of family time.
The acid is an interesting one I will look into that.
And from the comments burning them out does not seem to a popular option.
They were stump ground back last year. Covered in topsoil and seeded. Is there a chance they could be fairly well decomposed by now ?
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Still be some remains 3 years the are normally pulp
That should work out ok then when the time comes to dig out for the concrete slab they should be pretty well decomposed by the sounds of it
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That should work out ok then when the time comes to dig out for the concrete slab they should be pretty well decomposed by the sounds of it
If your in no rush probably worth going down the acid chemical route. Couple of hours to drill a few holes, add chemical. Sit back, relax job done
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Am watching this with interest as at some point in the future I will have a very large conifer stump and root system to remove for a concrete slab to go down.
From what I have read so far looks like a combination of hand digging, rigging a winch from some type of ground anchor (no big trees around) and the recip saw are going to be the best weapons.
From what I have read so far looks like a combination of hand digging, rigging a winch from some type of ground anchor (no big trees around) and the recip saw are going to be the best weapons.
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I was wondering about that but its very big must be 900mm across if not more at the bottom as it goes up it splits into two trees growing together with one angled towards next door the other towards us each must be around 400mm at chest height. I started tacking it down at the begin of the year before my accident. Will have to try and get a picture.
