Learn from the Burn Stump Removal

I liked throwing in the junk mail--very appropriate.

I hope you aren’t out working in all that heat you are having in the PNW. We are having the same heat in the SE.I have been running a fundraiser for the DAV over the we Forth. It was in the mid-90’s, yesterday, and that is hot even for here. I cranked up my 025, Sunday, and it was running real rich. I had put a new L4 lightweight Stihl bar on it and wanted to see how the chain and new bar lubed. It did a good job. Each of the links had a glob of oil on them and it lubed the rotary sprocket nice. Yesterday, when I got home from the fundraiser I was soaking wet and slot until almost seven this morning. Thank God, this is the last day of it. I sure would not want to be hanging out around a fire,like you. You can drill a stump and fill it with Epson salt and that will rot the stump out. I have burned stumps out but it sterilizes the ground for several feet adjacent to where you burned the stump, so nothing will grow there for several years. I now just drill them with a one inch wood drill and fill them full of Epson Salt. You can also fill them with old motor oil and it does the same thing.

thank you for posting that, 1st class as always! stay safe out there! regards alan.

I tried burning 🔥 one stump with drilling holes and pouring oil and gas and lighter fluid and covered with extra firewood 🪵 thinking it would burn down like a camp fire. That dang thing is still there. Maybe now a few years later it’s dry enough I’ll try it again. I have five acre’s of trees so I have plenty to try. A lot of them I just dig the roots out with my skidsteer and push them over roots and all. I heat the house with all I take down.

I'm gonna try this on my Mulberry tree stumps

This is like the best tutorial.

Your 100% right about a Hot Fire. Hot and it burns clean and doesn’t fill the air with white smoke. I wish more people thought about the air quality when burning. Keeping the stuff you wanna burn dry helps not fill the air with smoke

Yes, learnt something useful

I built a stump burning barrel with a chimney pipe and even had a copper tube as a gas/oil drip from a give gallon bucket and it still took forever to burn 🔥 that stump. I’ve found it easer to cut them ground level and just mow over them.

I like that method, I’ll have to do that with my stumps. Great information you give out. Would like you to do a axe hafting video sometime. Be safe be kind and God bless.

Thank you

I cut a waffle pattern into the stumps and burn. Works pretty well

Thanks! 👍

I use charcoal lighter and diesel for my big burns. Starts without the shock and awe, but it’s effective.

I was about to ask you why there isn't some kind of air inlet, but you began talking about doing it for next time. I also was going to ask if you think using an old stove pipe connected to a hole in the barrow, with a leaf blower on the opposite end of the pipe, if that would work to speed up the burn, or if it would be too hot and melt the barrow? I was thinking using your ideal of lining the barrow with the wood, could protect the barrow from the high heat as well as reflect it back on the stump, would possibly work using the leaf blower. Just shut off the blower when the lining burns away, and add another lining, etc... I have a really huge stump to remove, it is about 5 ft diameter. That is why i am considering burning, otherwise i would just pull it. So i never burnt them out before, but i am thinking it will still work on a huge stump, just have to burn part of it at a time if i use a 55 galloon drum. But i was also thinking to build up a rock wall, or a block wall around the 5ft stump, this way i can burn all at once. I could do the same stuff, like line it with wood, use charcoal, diesel and oil, brush, logs, etc... but it will just be blocks not steel. And i will most likely have to try using the blower and stove pipe to speed it all up. But i could possibly put some fire brick to line the bottom of the wall where the high heat will be to reflect even more heat back at the stump. It is an attempt to do this for someone else, so i don't want to be needing to tend the thing for two weeks or anything. It is in an area a grinder or other tools like a bulldozer can't reach. So if i can speed up the burn and be there for only 2-3 days tending, it might work.

I don’t think he used enough charcoal 😂

That's the way to go but that seems like way too much fuel for a stump that size. Plus it's been drying and soaking for two years, right? Getting rid of brush and stump is better suited title.

Where can a person get a couple of burn cans like those?

How about cut up tires to heat it up.

That got expensive with all that good charcoal