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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Drill 1″ to 2″ wide holes as deep as possible & fill holes with epsom salt, it will rapidly speed up the rotting process.
Drill the holes like it said but,pour used motor oil into the holes. Keep doing this until stump is saturated. Light that$#%&!@*on fire. Stump will smolder for a few days and even burn the roots underground. Ashes and a small craitor is what your left with after about three days and not salty soil.
Still can’t use the area. It doesn’t remove the stump or roots, just takes it to ground level
Desta Ricketts
Fire
Use salt peter. Works better and when dry you put charcoal on it and burn it away….
Try fire. It’s this crazy concept discovered a few millennia ago.
Basically, the story says to drill deep holes 3-4 inches apart and cover the entire surface of the stump. Then fill them with Epson salt to kill the roots. That’s not really getting rid of anything. Just killing the roots so it’ll rot. And that’s a hell of a lot of work drilling the entire surface of a green stump. There are soooooo many better ways that actuall remove the stump.
Just grind it out….
Place add ;Terrorist needed to remove stump.
Yes it does take our the whole stump. Been doing it for years.
I’d dig it up first then cut a portion of it out and make that cut portion in to a table
this is the way to KILL a stump, NOT remove it
I’m about to do this on several stumps in the garden. This is the first time I’ve read about putting it on the roots. I’m going to skip that part and keep adding it to the holes.
Tractor
Check this out Steven Sunday
Jenny Johnson
NO, it doesn’t work.
Hope you don’t want anything else to grow there
Uh huh..i see. How about a chainsaw and pick axe.
Make a fire on it.
Ellen Lewis
I’ll just burn mine out
Matthew Crites
Vernon Harrington
Yeah, a stumper works pretty good too
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Drill holes in the top of it, pour Epson salt in the holes, then wet the stump
Does that work on Palm stumps too? I know chain saws can get ruined on Palm stumps because of the fiberous root b
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I think that it would, the Epson salt dries the stump out
Mindy Monticue
They rent stump grinders for cheap, easy to use and makes quick work of that.
Julia Patton
Travis Finn
I figured Travis Finn more as the gun powder stump removal type of guy
A stick of dynamite works. Js
Randy Hill
Vinegar in those boreholes would work too
or, you could use a shovel and an axe
A guy told me to drill holes and plant pumpkin seeds in stumps. It will draw all the moisture out.
Or drill a couple holes in it, fill with tannerite, make a pile of it on top of the stump, stick a bucket over it.
Grab your rifle and back up a few hundred yards.
Michael Murphy for the fire pit area
They make these awesome things called stump grinders too.
Moab
Call me at Wood Cross Stump Grinding ill get it done!!!
What a crock. If you don’t have explosives just drill said holes in the stump and fill them with saltpeter. It will disolve the lignin in the wood and it will turn into sawdust. If you think just killing a stump aids in it’s removal you are crazy. You can just as easy deny the roots sugar from any leaves by keeping them cut off. When the roots run out of stored sugar they will die. But then, good luck with that stump.
Here in Texas, cockroaches do the trick…
Burn it out
Diesel fuel and salt
Rob Bartolini