What to use on a knackered willow

[Thesnarlingbadger]

I have just seen a customer who has been told by her home insurance to cut down and poison a blacked old willow stump due to subsidence (don’t get me started on the whole insurance telling people to cut down trees, I know it will make it worse I have told the customer but the insurance company won’t insure unless it’s gone).

 

Anyway I digress. The stump is about 10ft and almost 80% soil. So I am looking for a tungsten carbide chain to cut it down but can’t seem to find a 30” one on the market. I’m sure they used to make them. I was looking at just getting a grab and lifting it out but there is no access for one so it has to be lumped down and carried out.

 

I don’t mind spending good money on a chain that can be used for rotten old stumps as long as it works.

 

I’m I looking for the wrong thing? I just need a 30” chain for the 66 that will cope with soil in a trunk.

 

Or if anyone has any other bright ideas let me know. It’s about 3-4 foot at base and I have no access for large machinery.

 

Thanks in advance people [emoji4]

[woody paul]

Box of match's and some sticks 

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Box of match's and some sticks 

Too close to the house or I would have been getting the blow torch out [emoji848]

[Stubby]

Echo plugs ?

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Echo plugs ?

I need to cut the bloody thing down first.

[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, Thesnarlingbadger said:

 

I need to cut the bloody thing down first.

 

Oh , sorry I thought it was a stump ( as described ) ?

[Mick Dempsey]

I’ll bet it’s not realsoil just rotten wood and leak mould.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Oh , sorry I thought it was a stump ( as described ) [emoji846]

Sorry stubby I wasn’t having a go, just a poor sense of hummer.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

I’ll bet it’s not realsoil just rotten wood and leak mould.

Yeah it is but I would like a tungsten chain to cut through it but I can’t fine a 30” one for love nor money.

[Mick Dempsey]

Ok (and sorry for the poor spelling) that stuff won’t blunt your saw.