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Rotting out a stump?

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Jiles

04-08-2007 19:41:48




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Some of you might laugh at this but I have tried it and it worked for me. Cut a "T" shaped hole deep into the stump, with a chain saw, and fill it with "buttermilk". The bacteria in the milk will destroy a 12" stump within about a year.




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Pooh Bear

04-09-2007 18:30:45




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to Jiles, 04-08-2007 19:41:48  
Drill a big hole as deep as you can get straight down into the stump. Fill it with liquid ammonium nitrate. Cover the whole with mud. Let it set for a year. Keep filling it with A-N. After about a year light it on fire. It will burn like a candle until it is gone.

Pooh Bear



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TMay

04-09-2007 17:52:03




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to Jiles, 04-08-2007 19:41:48  
My brother in law is trying to remove stumps. What he does is cut them down pretty low to the ground. Wraps a piece of tin around them then fills it with match lite charcoal. lites her off in about a week stump gone. So far it works.



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Bus Driver

04-09-2007 13:40:58




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to Jiles, 04-08-2007 19:41:48  
Ammonium nitrate will hasten the rotting of such stumps. It promotes the growth of the fungus that eats the wood.



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Mattlt

04-10-2007 10:08:27




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to Bus Driver, 04-09-2007 13:40:58  
With all these suggestions to use ammonium nitrate, I'm surprised no one has suggested adding some diesel fuel and...

Oh, never mind. I won't go there.



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dds-inc

04-09-2007 07:32:32




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to Jiles, 04-08-2007 19:41:48  
on the other hand, I chop a hole in the middle and pour diesel fuel or a light engine oil in the middle and all over it. Then I let set for about 15 mins and then light it ablaze. works pretty well.



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glennster

04-09-2007 08:32:22




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to dds-inc, 04-09-2007 07:32:32  
we'd plunge the chainsaw in the stump and cut an x in the top, pour diesel or kerosene in it, pour some in every couple days for about a week or so, then start a charcoal fire on the top of the stump. burns down below ground level.



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Ludwig

04-09-2007 12:25:53




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to glennster, 04-09-2007 08:32:22  
This sounds like a heckuva way to start a fire that'd be hard to put out if it moved into another tree.
I remember years back when this happened near my parents house. The fire kept popping up for days until they got a real good soaker of a rain that finally put it out but for awhile there was real fear that it'd get to houses...



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Hal/WA

04-09-2007 19:20:27




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to Ludwig, 04-09-2007 12:25:53  
We had a similar problem. Years ago, my Dad burned out some old pine stumps, setting them afire in the Fall. The visible parts of the stumps burned out within a few days, but apparently the fires continued underground all winter. We found a number of places where the fires came back to the surface in the Spring, starting small ground fires. Some of these small fires were 30 to 50 feet from the original stumps. And a couple of the resulting fires got away from us and burned a few acres. We ended up carrying barrels of water to the burn area and siphoning water into the underground fires. This went on for a couple of months. When we dug up a some of the fires, we could see underground trails where the fires had followed buried, dead roots. The soil around those trails was hard, like baked bricks.

After that, we never tried burning out stumps still in the ground--my Dad thought it was just too dangerous. Good luck!

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Davis In SC

04-09-2007 18:34:40




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to Ludwig, 04-09-2007 12:25:53  
Yes, those roots can smoulder for weeks..



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dds-inc

04-09-2007 22:09:52




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to Davis In SC, 04-09-2007 18:34:40  
yes but this is only when we are talking about burning in a middle of a yard, and not a woods lot. just for proof of my safety.



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Sid

04-10-2007 21:11:57




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 Re: Rotting out a stump? in reply to dds-inc, 04-09-2007 22:09:52  
Sometimes roots go under the house. I have heard of one house lost like that.



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