How I Remove Tree Stumps 

Good luck with your next stump removal, yes leverage is key, without it you have to dig out the whole stump. With enough leverage the roots will just snap off.

Good luck, yes its still hard work, but using leverage and removing the surface roots makes it much easier to take out.

Thanks, I hope my video has made stump removal a little easier.

Thanks 👍

Good luck, it's a lot of hard work removing stumps, but if you can get enough leverage it will make the job much easier.

Thanks, I hope it was helpful.

If you do it yourself you love it more

Good luck with your stump removal.

Good tip, for people with hard dry clay soil.

I've not heard of that over here, I'll look it up. Is it like a digging bar?

Thanks, yes you need a certain degree of strength and balance for this technique, but one way is to use a nearby larger tree (attaching to its base) and use a ratchet strap or winch attaching high up on the stump you want to remove to get more leverage you don't need a huge amount of force. The only downside is sometime the trunk can be weaker than the roots and will snap leaving the roots intact, also you have to be careful that when it breaks it doesn't fly across the yard and hit you or a window.

Yes, they slowly rot away and turn into compost.

Yes, as long as you remove the large surface roots so the soil is deep enough for the grass to properly establish.

@@Gardeningat58N thank you do I need to put any grass feed down?

Sounds like it will be a struggle, when they have lots of smaller stems they usually break, also fig trees tend to have big root systems. If you have a mattock it will make it much easier than using a spade. Good luck with its removal.

Roots going straight down can make it a lot more difficult. If this happens I usually dig a two foot deep trench on one side of the stump and which exposes the roots so I can hack away at them from the side. You could try to burn the stump out, but if the wood is fresh or wet it will take a long time to fully burn it away.

@@Gardeningat58N okay thanks for the info. Sadly it’s gonna rain all day so I’ll have to wait til next week to try to burn it.

Thanks

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I just checked my video footage and it was 12 minutes for the multi-stemmed Lilac and 10 minutes for the Pear tree.

you record a video on removing it without talking in it then🤷‍♂️

You can skip to when you see something happening … like most people will have do e 😂

Yammering 😂😂

Leverage is very important, I don't know why so many people cut trees to the ground even when planning to remove the stump. The biggest fresh stump I removed using a mattock without leverage was around 80kg and over a foot across across, although I had to dig quiet the hole around it to cut all the roots. I find surprisingly sometimes a smaller stump can be much harder than a big one. For example I've taken out three foot wide conifer stumps which were starting to rot, fairly easily as the soft rotting wood was easily broken up by the mattock. Whereas a holly tree only around 20cm wide with roots going straight down was a real challenge as the tree had been growing slowly for 50 years and had extremely dense springy wood.

Oh my I love this I hopefully will remember this when my fleshly side wants to wave with my finger

Patience honeybum! Let him do his way. He did show in the end.