Stumping job gets grave

[Timbermcpherson]

Ah when someone gives you the easy jobs

 

So the banksia stump has pushed the plot out, so they want the stump out and the plot put back.

 

Really sensitive sort of job, and of course we have to be super careful. Dont want to disturb anything, stumps only a bit over a foot round

 

Easy........right?

 

 

Will post pics when done, but how would you guys tackle it?

Edited November 17, 2014 by Timbermcpherson

[penfold]

alpine grinder.

[5 shires]

Ah when someone gives you the easy jobs

 

So the banksia stump has pushed the plot out, so they want the stump out and the plot put back.

 

Really sensitive sort of job, and of course we have to be super careful. Dont want to disturb anything, stumps only a bit over a foot round

 

Easy........right?

 

 

Will post pics when done, but how would you guys tackle it?

 

Dig around it just below ground level then chainsaw multiple lines done to the required depth.cut out lined sections then shamfer of top using tip of chainsaw then chemicaly inject. Take bout 30 mins.

[TIMON]

Use a mattock "carefully" expose it below ground level. Like shires says criss cross cuts with a saw and chip away at it with a mattock and apply root killer. The biggest danger is damage to the head stones so whoever is using the mattock needs to have a very good eye/swing.

I wouldn't worry about unearthing any "remains". They will be much deeper.

Hope this helps.

A couple of old chains sharpened up would be handy.

Sometimes a brush and bucket of water to wash soil/stones off the stump below ground level can preserve the chains a bit longer, otherwise you will blunt them instantly.

Hope it goes well.

Timon

[Timbermcpherson]

We do a few around the gravestones, makes for interesting work at least.

[bumble B]

What would it take for the cemetery owners to move the stones? They have to be repositioned anyway and could all be done on the same day.

[TGB]

Can't they just leave it to rot. Hell, it's not long for this world and surrounded by the dead. Kinda fitting me thinks. Or is the mad world of 'H+S' having its day?

[Timbermcpherson]

Its a childs plot, for a little one who was not of this world very long but who is very much still thought about and loved.

 

I can understand why they want it put right and I will do my best to do so.

[kinderscout]

I would say on a child's grave like that,you would be looking to find the lid off the coffin between 24 and 30 inches down.