The most amazing way to remove a stump!! E16 

Nice little fire, but not the most awesome way to remove a stump. That distinction goes to my grandpa (H.E.) and his brother (A.P.) back in 1965, family farm, Russellville, KY. Large stump, about 6ft in diameter and three ft tall. Lumber from the tree was used to build our tobacco barn. They contemplated several strategies and decided on dynamite, but weren't sure how much to use. They drilled ten holes about two ft down, so they decided on ten sticks. In retrospect, it was a consensus that one stick would have been sufficient. The family gathered around to watch from about 50 yards out. They used a car battery to detonate the charges. There was a flash of light followed by the loudest boom I've ever heard, to date. It rained splinters for a good five minutes. Where the stump once stood was now a fourty foot hole in the ground that was about fourty feet deep. The hole started filling up with water, slowly at first, but picked up speed. Over night, the hole was filled and overflowing. A new spring of icey cold water had erupted and was now joined with the creek that ran through the farm. We had a new pond, one less tree stump and a ringing in our ears that continues to this very day.

I have to say that I am truly amazed by the comments section on this video. I have become accustomed to expecting negative comments on all youtube videos and it is unbelievably humbling to have this many comments and for most of them to be positive. THANK YOU!!

As a note for anyone who wants to try this. Depending on your area and how dense the trees are, the fire may travel through the root system underground and pop up a significant distance away. Root fires can smolder for a long time and be reignited if they run into more fuel that gives it a path to oxygen.

This is some romantic stump burning music if I ever heard it

I’ve been watching this video at least 4 times a year since you posted. I have no stump to remove. It’s very relaxing hearing the music and fire burn the stump. Thank you for making this!

I'm going to show this to my hubby, we have several stumps that need to be burned out. This was FAR more interesting than watching the Oscars tonight, seriously. Thank you for sharing.

Perfect excuse to drink all day on the weekend. Awesome video.

That’s probably the most respectful way I’ve seen of removing an old stump.

I was eating my sandwich and stumbled in to this video, so it's been 4 minutes and I still don't know why am I watching this??

I watched the entire video but I don't have to remove a stump, who else?

I'm still coming back to this. It is hands down THE best burning method of getting rid of stumps. Well done again!

Also I think the music keeps the comments friendly. This is the most polite comment section I’ve ever seen

Wind don't blow till you try to light a fire! LOL

That's some of the nicest stump burning music I've heard.

A variation of the Swedish log stove many use at camp outs. Burning a chimney log (natural hole in center) propped up on a few stones for air feed, results in fun pulse-jet like campfires too. This “tuber” rediscovered old practices, but beware of underground fires along root system that can ignite trees and structures at surprising distances. Thanks for sharing!

Just a suggestion: The size of hole you were drilling is perfect size for those road flares you get in them emergency travel kits. Stick one in each hole and light it - the intense fire off them flares should ignite the greenest of stumps and take care of it self from there until gone. wind will dictate which fuse in which hole gets the draft to the center vertical one..

this was quite relaxing

Legend has it it’s still burning to this day

This is great! Lifelong city dweller moving to a wooded lot. Going to need this. I love those ah ha moments in life when you see something so sensible that you say how did I not think of that. It's kind of like the bottle cap or the shoe lace. Thank you!

That is the way the pioneers did it. Great.

As I sat and watched the log burning I listened to the sweet music play and cryed starring into the face of a mental breakdown with suicidal depression. Great video!

I found this video to be relaxing and oddly satisfying.

Turning the stump into a rocket stove seems to be the best way to get rid of it I've ever seem. Congratulations.

When I was a kid my dad had a 1978 dodge power wagon 4x4 with a 360 v8, bored 30 over, Holley 650 double pumper, headers and a steel pipe welded to the frame for a bumper. He was the guy that pulled you out of the mud at the mud hole when you got stuck. The guy. Once, a friend of his had a stump that needed removed so they dug down a little and cut some roots with a chainsaw, wrapped a few chains around it and secured it to dad's truck and he yanked that sucker right out, I think on the third try. Boy we had half the neighborhood watching and it made for a real fond memory to this day. Fires are good and all, but theres no comparing a little camp fire to a stump half the size of a volkswagon bug being yanked out and dragged down the street like that.

man, get a 6 pack and a few friends over... pretty cool camp fire haha

I would have used a leaf blower in one of the side holes to turbo charge the burn. Works wonders.

I drilled holes in my stumps. Got used motor oil from a garage free! Poured oil in the holes and lit it up and lettit go!

My wife and I just inherited a farm. This is perfect for the many stumps I have to remove. Thank you

Just a quick tip, when the above ground stump is gone, throw a piece of tin (I just used a piece of old corrugated barn steel) and a cinder block ontop of the below ground level stump (roots). Air will still get into the coals via the corragated ridges, it will keep the heat concentrated down in the hole, and you don't have to worry about the wind carrying embers away. It cooks the roots away much faster. Also, I use a mix of diesel fuel and used motor oil, trans fluid or whatever I have on hand and let it soak into the stump a couple days before I light it. Seems to act like a wick in an old oil lamp. Works good.

This video is strangely entertaining with very nice music. Thanks for sharing

The music should be on a tribute to grandma & grandpa ! A marriage that lasted forever

Thank you. I am inside on a rainy, cool day and found this oddly satisfying.

This is my new favorite kind of video stop burning - I love it.

That's actually pretty darn Nifty something I'll have to keep in mind. Always amazed by people's Ingenuity and Imagination. A big thumbs up.

This is the best stump removal video I have seen on youtube.

About thirty some years ago we did the same thing with about a two dozen stumps except for a week or so we poured some diesel fuel mixed wit old engine oil down the hole first.

Don't need a leaf blower.....I'll send my Mother-in-Law over.....she full of hot air and methane gas.

I'm going to miss that old stump.

I don't know why that was so relaxing to watch. Lol

Leaves Open Kerosene bottle next when starting a fire. This guy knows how to live dangerous

The music for this vid was great. Made me wanna go campin'.

Thank you ! Your video helped me burn out a 30" plus diameter stump in my back yard... I drilled a hole in the top but then I used a chain saw to cut a square out of the side to meet up with the hole from the top... then I added a blower into the side hole using a metal pipe to direct the air in the side hole and out the top hole... The result was incredible .. I burnt that stump down below ground level in less then 3 evenings... The blower I used was from a bounce house so it had very high CFM.. It worked like a champ !

Horticulturist here from Springfield, Illinois, fire free method would be drill all your holes, then a couple scoops of old forest growth topsoil near the base of an existing tree. The soil is full of beneficial bacteria. It will naturally eat the stump. Faster and cheaper enjoy!

I hope there are no tree stump huggers watching this.

I once lit a firework out of a stump when younger when parents were gone for week. It caught fire and smoked for days. Dad was really happy when he got home that it was gone lmao.

I accidently lit and burnt down most of my farm doing this. Stayed up splitting alot of wood for a customer coming the next day and burned the scraps around a rather small but very annoying stump. Slept out by the campfire all good, next morning the Fire was put completely out with water, raked and then watered thoroughly again. Left to do a day of deliveries to later come home to the farm on fire, rather apparently from an underground root burning in relatively loose soil. I am not saying to not do it, but be very careful. When I put that fire out to leave, no one would have thought it wasn't adequately extinguished, seriously More times then not - it's a nice way to have a campfire while getting rid of an annoying stump, but be careful where you do it because it is possible something is burning underground far from where your fire/stump was

I enjoyed this. The fire, the music, the concept.... This is a video for DIY people.

That was a beautiful one-time-only campfire. Should've called the boys in for a night to remember. Great idea and video, thanks!

Wow! You just saved me a ton of work. I've dug them out in the past and that takes a great effort and a lot of time. Great idea!

that was so satisfying to watch

Love the soothing music as I watch a stump burn.

I have dug out around the base and roots, dump a bag of charcoal briquettes on it. Not the fastest way but it gets the job done

really great video. Very calming too! that would have been a nice fire to cook from!

wow, that seemed to work really well! definitely seems worth drilling all around evenly

Excellent! Thanks for the video. I combined your method with another which was to cut an "X" in the stump with my chainsaw and it worked great. Thanks again.

Work fascinates me, I could watch it forever!

I can tell you if you put a leaf blower or a fan on that, you'd have that thing producing 10x the heat. It's amazing what that'll do to increase burn rate.

Makes me want to order a stump from amazon.

I'm a simple man. I see a burning stump, I click the like button.

Me and my buddies would have been sitting around that stump in lawn chairs swapping war stories and drinking beer, thinking isn't life grand!

I saw a guy with the same kind of situation years ago. He had just built a very nice house and there was a stump a bit bigger than that about twenty feet behind the house. He had dug around and exposed the root system and found out that the sand dulled his chain saw so he tried to blow it out. He put a plastic garbage bag under the stump then filled it with propane with an old sock for a wick. When the bag was full of propane he lit the wick and stood back.It worked, sort of. The stump launched in the air and landed on the brand new roof of his brand new house. I like this method much better.

Should be most amazing way to make smores! That night time shot of it smoldering was really neat!

We did this with a tree stump about 15 years ago. This method works well and is fun!

There is something about a small fire that attracts humans to just watch, especially men. I enjoyed watching this.

Watching an intentional fire is so mesmerizing. We bought a new home fairly recently and there are dozens of stumps on the property that have rotted pretty well in the middle. I think I will try this if I can find one that isn't too close to trees that we actually want to keep. Thanks for the video and instructions.

Did I really just watch a video of someone burning a tree stump. I must get a life

Good advice and good music. Thanks. I saw a similar stump burn where the guy used an electric leaf blower to FORCE air thru the stump. Took it out fast. Thanks.

Absolutely brilliant! And I would be amazed if 100,000 people hadn't already had the same idea....

Of all the amazing ways..this is the most amazing

This is going be my winter project and have a nice fire at night at same time

I saw someone doing just this on the outskirts and I did it to one stop and now got to do it to a larger stump. Thanks for the tips, I can correct on what I was doing.

Awesome. Another great day at the office.

FLASH POINT: The temperature at which a particular organic compoud gives off sufficient vapor to ignite in air The Flashpoint of Kerosene is 110 degrees Fahrenheit. I PROMISE PEOPLE there was no danger in having the Kerosene near the open flame. Look at the coat I am wearing, it was below 40F outside. Please do some research before commenting and posting links to articles that you don't even read!!!

Thanks for the video. I did that same thing with a green oak stump about 43" across, but I used paraffin (wax) instead of kerosene. I drilled multiple holes in the stump. Afterward, it burned for quite a while even underground. I used my DeWalt Hammer Drill with a bit comparable to the one you used. My stump burned for quite a while. I fed it more paraffin every once in a while.

By far the easiest and most funniest way to remove stump. Bonfire and some smores. Thanks for sharing 🤙

I just told me friends about this.. it works. Thanks bro!

Yes, it works. I don’t think city ordinances would allow it but I’m rural so all is good. Neighbor across the road burned one out just like you showed. Best thing is, it smells good as it’s burning. Thanks for posting the video.

This method works. I drill all my holes first . The side holes feed oxygen to the fire. 24 hrs later 85% gone

Second time watching. Just as good as the first.

I have a big stump at the end of the garden, lived with it for nearly 6 years and always planned to sort it "next year". Anyway I was about to hire a root grinder and sort it this weekend. Now I'm going to try your method. Looks almost foolproof (famous last words) going to do 4 holes round the sides and light it nice and early so I don't have to sit in the garden all night. Thanks again from Manchester England.

Thanks RU-vid for recommending I watch this for the third time

I did this one time, I live in a desert region, the ground for several hundred feet around smoked for a week, the roots burned too. Scared me a little

Nice guitar, I could listen to that all day.

Idk why but this was very satisfying and relaxing to watch 😂😂 I think I'll go cut a tree down just so I can burn a stump!

Cool way to spend a autum afternoon

I love digging stumps out. Really. I've gotten so good at it.

Well look who I found!!! Good to see ya Wes

You can use a 55 gallon drum. Cut off the top and bottom. Just fill it halfway up with wood and it will start roaring away until he stump is totally gone. The drum helps the fire draft better and speeds up the destruction of the stump. No hole drilling needed.

Just remember, when you burn a stump you will likely also burn the roots. Those roots are long so be aware where they run. Think of what a forest fire burned area looks like in its aftermath. When I was a park ranger, the campsite firepits were sometimes placed over roots unknowingly. Cleaning removed some of the gravel base and soil. That got down enough that the campfire was hot enough to start a root fire that ran up the tree that was hollow. We saw the smoke pouring out of a knot hole. We had started a tree fire unintentionally. Not good on a campground.

Ya know what that fire needs is a couple of nice ribeyes toastin'...

Nice demo. A warm & relaxing video!

One of the best parts you taught your daughter a very valuable lesson and experience. Brave

This video made me miss the days when I could buy dynamite at the CO-OP.

Very interesting ... and I like the music!!! Thanks.

I don’t know why but that video was very satisfying to watch

I had the same idea! I'm glad someone else had the same idea! I did drill holes with the longest largest drill bit i had and my drill could hold, but not as long as the one you used. I drilled close to the edge on top and then one on side to meet the other hole. I also made a bunch of holes to pour gas into.I am using gas so hopefully gas will work as well as kerosene. I believe you can use deisel too. My stump has a hole in the middle on top going all the way down to the ground which i guess was rot. Because the stump is near my split rail fence I put up metal roofing sheets sideways and drilled to stakes surrounding the stump. Just trying to be safe and careful. I also raked and saved a ton of that stringy tree crap that we get in spring which is awesome for starting a fire. The tree was cut down a year ago, long story. But I hope it burns okay .

I always use the same 3 simple tools when removing tree stumps; *my neighbors: "Moe, Larry, and Curly."*

oh man we had a big oak tree that had died and was rotten and dry through and through, I set it on fire and it burned above ground for 3 days but under ground for two weeks and left a pretty good size hole in the ground too.

I need to remove stumps. Just not dead ones. Off to find dead ones now! Loved this!!

I came up with the same method, easily the best way. Fun and relaxing too. One more additional trick is to drill a bunch of holes from the top a few days before and fill with normal vegetable oil. Let it soak it in. That stump was nice and dry so it went nicely by itself.