Tree Stump Removal
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Tree stump removal instructions that make a very difficult, or even an impossible job, manageable.
I spent about 20 years re-landscaping homes. We used to re-landscape three homes a week, and we did all this focus on evenings and Saturdays because I worked a full time job. Arboriculture Nambour have no idea how many homes I re-landscaped through the years, however the number is well over 500. Each one of those re-landscaping jobs had overgrown landscaping that would have to be removed before we could even start the specific landscaping job.
That meant that dozens and dozens of tree stumps and large stumps from overgrown shrubbery had to be removed.
Of course county wisdom says which you back up Bubba's pickup truck, wrap a chain around the stump and drive away as fast as you can. I'll admit, I've done that. Does it work? Type of. But it's also the best way to really tear up a pickup, completely destroy the lawn, and possibly damage the house.
Therefore it's not such a good idea. Especially when you are doing focus on someone's house like I was doing.
So through the years we refined a technique for actually removing these stumps by hand. Tree stump removal by hand with the incorrect tools is an impossible task. Tree stump removal with the proper tools is doable. I will not say it's easy work because it isn't. But if you use the right tools and the proper techniques you don't need to strain your back and ruin your tools. It's more of a methodical process of digging around the tree stump with a good nursery digging spade, and utilizing a landscape bar, also referred to as a spud bar to cut the roots as you encounter them while digging.
The secret would be to start out away from the stump. If you begin working too closely to the stump you will come across large heavy roots that will be too difficult to deal with. So if you start out a little farther and just start digging a little trench round the stump with the spade, then going around in the trench you just dug with the spud bar to slice the roots that the spade won't cut, then more spade work, then more landscape bar work, that tree stump will come from the ground. Don't pry and bend up your tools. Utilize the tools to cut the roots. Prying won't allow you to get anywhere and your tools will undoubtedly be ruined.
I've been teaching this technique on the Internet for a number of years now and folks write to me continuously and tell me how well it worked for them.
I spent about 20 years re-landscaping homes. We used to re-landscape three homes a week, and we did all this focus on evenings and Saturdays because I worked a full time job. Arboriculture Nambour have no idea how many homes I re-landscaped through the years, however the number is well over 500. Each one of those re-landscaping jobs had overgrown landscaping that would have to be removed before we could even start the specific landscaping job.
That meant that dozens and dozens of tree stumps and large stumps from overgrown shrubbery had to be removed.
Of course county wisdom says which you back up Bubba's pickup truck, wrap a chain around the stump and drive away as fast as you can. I'll admit, I've done that. Does it work? Type of. But it's also the best way to really tear up a pickup, completely destroy the lawn, and possibly damage the house.
Therefore it's not such a good idea. Especially when you are doing focus on someone's house like I was doing.
So through the years we refined a technique for actually removing these stumps by hand. Tree stump removal by hand with the incorrect tools is an impossible task. Tree stump removal with the proper tools is doable. I will not say it's easy work because it isn't. But if you use the right tools and the proper techniques you don't need to strain your back and ruin your tools. It's more of a methodical process of digging around the tree stump with a good nursery digging spade, and utilizing a landscape bar, also referred to as a spud bar to cut the roots as you encounter them while digging.
The secret would be to start out away from the stump. If you begin working too closely to the stump you will come across large heavy roots that will be too difficult to deal with. So if you start out a little farther and just start digging a little trench round the stump with the spade, then going around in the trench you just dug with the spud bar to slice the roots that the spade won't cut, then more spade work, then more landscape bar work, that tree stump will come from the ground. Don't pry and bend up your tools. Utilize the tools to cut the roots. Prying won't allow you to get anywhere and your tools will undoubtedly be ruined.
I've been teaching this technique on the Internet for a number of years now and folks write to me continuously and tell me how well it worked for them.
