How To Make A Tree Stump Disappear In Just A Few Minutes

Whoa! I've been watching these videos so long I just looked outside and my stump has rotted away! It works!

You made it disappear by raking dirt over it, I feel cheated out of 7 min of my life.

Thank you Dan and Alice! I like the idea of using the auger in order to go deeper as we have large stumps. Enjoy your garden we are right behind you! Living the dream ✨️ 💝🙏🏼

Not trying to take away from a good video but consider this. USE the trunk for leverage! While you have anywhere from 4 to 15 feet of trunk, clean away the roots with a shovel. Tie a rope high as possible on the trunk and with that leverage pull where you want the trunk to fall. Pull on the rope with an anchored come-along, winch, truck hard point or just have someone pull the rope. While the roots on the opposite side of the trunk are being pilled, cutting with axe or chainsaw is much easier. As you cut through roots it will get easier on subsequent roots. You might try different angles pulling the rope to get to other roots. Eventually the roots break pretty easy, again because of the leverage.

I like how you call them volunteer trees, you can harvest a lot of seedlings and branches for mulch and compost. - I would let a part of the stump stand, cut into it to create some openings, and water it and plant mushrooms. Likely it would need some larger plants nearby to create shade. A little nitrogen rich compost around to compensate for the decomposing wood.

This isn't a trick but this is how my Swedish grandfather split granite: wait till winter or till temperatures are under 0°Celsius. Drill a dozen holes or more about 2-3 cm wide, as deep as you can, ideally not less than 15cm but the deeper the better. Fill with water and then the water will freeze and split the stump just like the frozen water popped off slices of the drilled granite. When the thaw comes pluck out what you can; then wait till spring by which time several thaws and repeated freezes will have so shattered the stump it won't be hard to remove the rest. 😀 Obviously only works in climate zones with freezing temperatures... 🙄 Cheers!

I’m amazed at how many ways you might approach problems. I’m equally amazed at the critiques below that seem to have found THE one and only way. I love the gentle approach of this fine video as two fine people share THEIR way. Thanks for sharing.

Anyone looking to deal with a stump check the wood type for the right fungi to inoculate it with and you can turn the stump into a mushroom garden as the fungi breaks down the wood.

Another method that worked great for me was build a charcoal briquet fire in top of the stump. Once the stump catches fire it will burn the roots clear down into the soil.

Haha. I thought you were really going to show us some sort of trick. Instead you just buried it. LOL.

Thank you Dan and Alice appreciate this very much I don't know what to do with the stumps and my daughter's yard

Just found this channel. And just wanted to say hello and tell you both that Y’all are awesome ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 💕

Leave the tree tall for leverage. Hook a comealong or electric winch to the base of another tree or other anchor. Keep tension whilst you cut and/or pry the roots.

Try using a reciprocating saw to cut off the tap root (after you've dug around the base). Reciprocating saws work in soil just fine. Then you can often just dig out the stump with a pick axe.

Chainsaw chaps would be a good idea. Mine saved me a trip to the hospital when I was cutting off a large stump at ground level.

Wow! Amazing, and so easy! Thank you so much👍👏 Have a safe day! Moira From England.

You make me feel like part of a global community and I thank you for all your sharing and caring.

Great video. We all have some of those pesky "volunteers." I've got three to do myself. Love the instruction. Thanks for sharing. Love Peg

Thank you for the tip. I’ve had a tree cut to the ground, but I wasn’t able to use the space as the guy who cut the tree didn’t want to dess as l with the stump, so, thank you so much.

We did this!! Thanks! Then we went along merrily with our landscaping! 🌟🌟🌟🌟