Easy Stump Removal

[eccentrictinkerer]

Another possible option is to drill several large holes in the stump and then fill it with the highest nitrogen fertilizer you can find at the home center and then water it down real well. It speeds up the natural rotting of the stump. Some people even go so far as to put a tarp over it and cover it with mulch. Depending on the species of the tree, the level of it above the ground and other things it may takes a month or it may take six months. But it will get rid of it and not harm your gas main.

Careful how much nitrogen fertilizer you buy at a time, you may end up getting a visit from the Department of Homeland Security. :P

I used this method on an 8" apple tree stump (after wasting four bags of charcoal). It took a couple of years, but it's gone.

BTW, I remember ads in the the back of Popular Mechanics touting "magic crystals" that would dissolve stumps. Seems like it was about $20 a jar.

I asked my neighbor who is an arborist (a tree feller) about thease "crystals". He's the one that alerted me to the fact it was just fertilizer.

[Tom Slick]

I think I saw a slide of Psrythesymelethesitrtiulveyis when watching military training slides on STDs, along with gynacyphaherpalaids...nasty stuff! I think you can get a shot that that.

[gerti]

I thought the canonical method down south was a hole down the center and a stick of dynamite...

[mikego]

We just had about 6 dead/dying fir and oak trees felled. I was researching stump removal yesterday and saw this idea mentioned. I live in a rural area, and thought it might be the way to go....until I remembered that my natural gas main is buried about 2' away from the stumps Don't think I'll be trying it.

Another way that works is to bore some holes in the stump and pour
bacon grease into them. The porcupines and the skunks will make short work
of the stump for you.

Mike G.

[Hellrazor]

At 2' from a gas main, I would suggest that poster either dig it out by hand, leave it, or hire someone with insurance.

You wouldn't need to use as much kerosene though...

[Mr__Bill]

Another way that works is to bore some holes in the stump and pour
bacon grease into them. The porcupines and the skunks will make short work
of the stump for you.

Mike G.

Now that is a great all natural way to do it.

I should tell you about pulling stumps from in front of my house by attaching a chain to them and to the back of my truck. But then I would have to tell you about replacing the sidewalk and about the stories I made up on how those dents came to be on the back of the truck.

Bill, on the Sunny Oregon Coast, Oregon a state that I have yet to do something so stupid that I am ashamed to talk about it.