Post your stump grinding photos

[Stere]

 

Dug one out that was similar in garden @ home . Then turned it upside down in the hole  looks like the pic below now  a stumpery.

 

Was a 30" lodge pole pine that was windblown.

 

[sime42]

 
Dug one out that was similar in garden @ home . Then turned it upside down in the hole  looks like the pic below now  a stumpery.
 
Was a 30" lodge pole pine that was windblown.
 

That's bloody hard graft. How long did that take you? Good idea with the stumpery.

[Stere]

Probably a day doing a few hrs now and then

 

Recip saw & mattock and  a farm jack

 

Snapped my only shovel steel handle off so need a new one😏

Edited April 25, 2021 by Stere

[rapalaman]

6 hours ago, openspaceman said:

The smell should have given an indication of species. Interesting that they had attempted to burn it out, had they done the initial excavation?

Yeah they thought they could dig it out, then tried to burn it. Even if they had dug it out they would never have got it out of the hole or through the narrow gate without a hell of a lot of graft with an axe and mattock.

[lux]

Did this one during the week - first photo sent by customer so I gave a ball park figure. The reality was a bit different! Second pic shows what it was really like - turned out to not be too bad and was done and finished in 3 1/2 hours.
Nearly 3ft deep but was pretty soft - a pine of some kind but customer didn’t know what

Nice moat to push the grindings into. No excess grindings to take away for that stump I bet [emoji106]

[openspaceman]

5 hours ago, rapalaman said:

Yeah they thought they could dig it out, then tried to burn it. Even if they had dug it out they would never have got it out of the hole or through the narrow gate without a hell of a lot of graft with an axe and mattock.

Good job for you they gave up.

 

I remember underestimating how long digging stumps out by hand would take. Even if you set about is sensibly that would have taken a few days to burn out.

[sime42]

I think Mattocks are an underrated digging tool. I couldn't do without mine for any kind of ground work. So much better than a pickaxe in my opinion. They're really come into their own when when there's any roots or stumps involved.

[openspaceman]

16 minutes ago, sime42 said:

I think Mattocks are an underrated digging tool. I couldn't do without mine for any kind of ground work. So much better than a pickaxe in my opinion. They're really come into their own when when there's any roots or stumps involved.

I mostly use an ancient ex army entrenching tool but have a mattock as per attached photo of a job for my niece last week.

 

Three well dead conifer stumps biggest still about a cwt which is too much for me to lift nowadays. The clincher was the Eder 1800 with a 2:1 advantage.. I subsequently split the bigger ones into 4 with wedges.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Stumps are heavy and awkward to lift, leave it to foolish youngsters.

[arbwork]

tight access, new teeth cutting lovely strips off stump, sweet smelling Leylandii