large carving

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Greg Haugen

Yeah, I bet that is a beast to run. I wish we were closer. We have a 3 ft radius stump grinder and have access to a 6 ft radius grinder. Hang on to that thing. Wow.

You need to hitch up a younger horse!

Dick Coers

A neighbor just had two stumps ground out. A huge remote control, diesel Vermeer machine was in the yard for what seemed like less than 15 minutes to take out a 30" soft maple. All you need is money!

Re: You need to hitch up a younger horse!

John C Lucas

I had one ground away in an emergency to build my garage. It was $124. I have 15 of various sizes plus a bunch of roots that need to be ground down. I could rent the big ones but looked like it would take 3 days minimum. This isnt bad. This was a very large and still green stump. Ive worked on it about 3 hours. Have another hour to go probably. I cut the last 5 in about an hour or less each. only have 2 large stumps left. Then i have about 5 that are flush with the ground that i want to cut below ground. Those should all go pretty quickly. Between that and a couple of flat wood projects its been hard to get much turning done

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Joe Mohnike

Winter is comming on, looks like a great place for a fire pit to me.

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Bob Macgregor

Maybe you could rig up a very long extension handle to gain more leverage?

We have a fire pit. 

Im thinking a large captured bar system

John C Lucas

Then rig up a video monitor like the Trent Bosh system. Oh while im at it why not add servos so i can do it all grom my computer while i monitor woodcengral

You need an app for that....

I'm app to hurt myself 

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Mike Stafford

When I was a teenager we lost several large oaks to a hurricane but, of course the stumps remained in the ground.

My dad gave me the job of using a brace and bit to bore hundreds of holes into those stumps as deeply as I could. Have you ever tried drilling 1" holes into green oak end grain? I am still sore from it.

Once all the holes were drilled to my father's satisfaction he poured kerosene into them and let it soak in. He kept pouring in the kerosene until that stump was saturated.

Then he set them afire. I think those stumps burned for a month. I know there was smoke coming out of the ground for a long time. Us kids were told to stay away from where the stumps were because the ground could collapse under us and we could fall into the the smoldering root system.

We didn't even get to roast marshmallows on the fire because it was a stinking kerosene fire.

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john lucas

Mike I tried to burn out a black locust stump using sort of the same method. It stunk for weeks and all the neighbors complained.

Re: Im thinking a large captured bar system

Bob Macgregor

Our local university has a steep bank behind their stadium that they mow with a remote-controlled lawn mower, so I don't see why you couldn't do it with the stump grinder.

My wife is the remote control and I'm the motor

Have you priced kerosene lately?

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Brad Vietje

I have no passion for mowing lawns, so this work just wouldn't rise to "must-do" status for me.

You could have whacked them each a few times with an axe, dumped on a few shovels of dirt, and let Mother Nature turn 'em into compost. Not very fast, but a sure bet if you wait long enough. AND, you could even grow 'shrooms for the time it takes for them to break down. Sure -- you'd have some ugly lumps to mow around, but meh -- no big deal. No way would I spend hundreds of dollars to remove stumps -- just not very important to me.

That's just one fella's 2 cents, and perhaps not even worth that!

Safe spinning,

Brad Vietje

Newbury, VT

(where men are men, and lawns are -- apparently -- "stumpy")

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Dennis in Southern Oregon

Mike, I can commiserate with you regarding the boring. When I was a teenager, I got the task of wiring our 60 year old oak-framed farm house when REA electricity finally came to to SW Missouri. I too had only a brace and some well used bits to bore many tens of holes.

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mikeee12345

Good thing that you had that "Cordless" Brace & Bit drill to use for that job.

Yikes!, that had to be no fun at all!

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