SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
What tricks do you have in your arsenal for if you need to remove small stumps.
I haven't bothered fixing my old grinder in a long time, as I hate grinding. I think about it time to time, but small stumps won't make me any money, and three guys in town have big grinders, so I have referred out my last big maple stump (4'x 7' at the soil, on a huge mound).
I have a small alder growing against a sidewalk, so a grinder wouldn't do it all, anyway, and its small, so to get the job, we'll dig it.
My normal arsenal includes mattocks, shovels, rock bar, sawsall, an old hand saw for some roots (its surprising in a garden bed that you can cut right through the intact soil to get through smaller roots), Korean hand hoe (give by a customer. very useful, http://www.amazon.com/EZ-Digger-Sho...id=1396019169&sr=8-1&keywords=korean+hand+hoe), cable come-along, rakes, garbage cans and tarps (keeps the lawn clean and easy to roll over and move the soil back into the hole without having to shovel it all). Most of this is on the truck anyway (not the sawsall or cable comealong).
RopeArmor/ Thomas has an interesting video of blocking next to the tree base to create a fulcrum to lever the tree over. It was a good sized trees and a spectra-type rope on a spar.
I haven't bothered fixing my old grinder in a long time, as I hate grinding. I think about it time to time, but small stumps won't make me any money, and three guys in town have big grinders, so I have referred out my last big maple stump (4'x 7' at the soil, on a huge mound).
I have a small alder growing against a sidewalk, so a grinder wouldn't do it all, anyway, and its small, so to get the job, we'll dig it.
My normal arsenal includes mattocks, shovels, rock bar, sawsall, an old hand saw for some roots (its surprising in a garden bed that you can cut right through the intact soil to get through smaller roots), Korean hand hoe (give by a customer. very useful, http://www.amazon.com/EZ-Digger-Sho...id=1396019169&sr=8-1&keywords=korean+hand+hoe), cable come-along, rakes, garbage cans and tarps (keeps the lawn clean and easy to roll over and move the soil back into the hole without having to shovel it all). Most of this is on the truck anyway (not the sawsall or cable comealong).
RopeArmor/ Thomas has an interesting video of blocking next to the tree base to create a fulcrum to lever the tree over. It was a good sized trees and a spectra-type rope on a spar.
