The following tips mostly assist homesteaders, but if you're clearing a lot with the intention to construct a bug out or survival shelter this formula will also help in that situation as well.
One of the most difficult parts of managing land is to make sure it's cleared for habitation.
Habitation can include clearing it for gardening, shelter, or to create a line of sight that'll allow you to see when visitors are approaching.
When it comes to the aspects of clearing land, removing tree stumps is considered one of the most time consuming and labor intensive.
Especially if the tree is of any substantial size, it can be difficult work that often leads the person attempting to remove it frustrated and sore.
Luckily if you want to get the job done there are some options!
Epsom salt ranks as one of the most effective and environmentally friendly ways of getting rid of a stump — and on the next page, we'll explain how!
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Ryan Wallace for the stump by your house
Bull$#%&!@*get someone to stump grind it
Jon Inastrangeland
Rock salt
Explosives.
I tried it two years ago on a hemlock stump (a portion of it so I could see the difference) and it really didn’t work as well as you would think. its slightly more degraded but not much. maybe it will accelerate in the future.
waste of salt…
Call me
Jason Giles
Stump grinder works faster!!
Dave Ferreira
Get a dam backhoe an dig the f## king stump up.
Got a pop up I could not close!!
Smash a semi into it
I use Epsom Salts, Apple Vinegar, and Blue Dawn mixture for weed killing!
Interesting! Robbie DuBois
If you have all the time in the world and many bags of it, In a years time maybe, but my Vermeer 252 will take care of that one in 20 minutes !!!
Drill a 1/2 ” bore hole deep in the stump, get some Black powder, put about 3 ozs in the hole. Run some cannon fuse down to the powder, cap the hole with mud, light the fuse and stand back.
Thermite
Charcoal…sulfur …potassium nitrate…will work too
Fire ring, burn it out
Did the salt thing, 9years ago… still waiting, but hey, I’m sure another 9 and it’ll be ready
That’s what I do.
That’s what I do.
Kenny Ray check this out
Put a bird bath on it and plant a flower bed around it.
Put a bag of match light charcoal on it…light and it will be gone…may take 2 bags if it is real big
We always cut 1/2 lines in it then pure salt in the grooves we made walk away then the following year we shoveled it poured more salt on by mid summer it was gone.
Used sugar on one; took 3 yrs; but bugs and fungus ate it up good.
Trinitrotoluene?
Rumor has it, you can Set a can of diesel fuel on a ladder with a drip line. Soak stump, light fire, start drip, let it go for a week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMIEbV45UQE
We always cut it as low as possible and remove loose dirt around it and start a fire on it. We enjoy keeping the fire going and it will burn well below the ground. Works every time
We go at them with a pickaxe, wood axe, and brute strength. It’s a great workout. >.<
Jason Metz
Gas?
Jim Sottile
You can’t be serious !
Try THIS formula! 3 parts rust powder to 1 aluminum powder! Haha!
That does it for me guys! This page is total$#%&!@*
Erik Wagoner
Dig a hole under it. 3 quarter sticks and there is no more stump. And your neighbor probably has a new hole in their roof for good measure
Takes too long. Drill it the same way, pour in kerosene, let it soak up, light it, done.
Justin Moore
Rent a stump grinder or text me I’ll do it for you
Thermite
Drill hole fill with black powder, pack very carefully insert fuse or wire for detonation and sit back and watch the show. Tell the neighbors first….
Emily Edgmon
my husband and i did that 35years ago
Just hire someone with a stump grinder!!! $75 to $100 a stump. Bam!!!! your done