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How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

This method is not time-consuming, does not require a lot of effort or specialized equipment from you. Using this method, you alone can easily remove at least a dozen stumps from your site. In fact, there is no secret of removal here. We just burn the stump from the inside.
Due to the use of open fire, this process has a drawback: it cannot be used in places where fire cannot be made. Namely, near gas pipelines, houses, high-voltage lines, etc.
But in this way you can remove absolutely any stumps in size and condition: raw or rotten.

Will need


  • Hammer drill, drill or screwdriver with a long drill on wood.
  • 100-200 ml. kerosene, diesel fuel or any kind of ignition for coal.
  • 0.5 meter section of HB tissue.

This, in principle, is all that is needed, not much, is it ....

Remove stump with fire


At the beginning we drill in the center of the stump a vertical hole as far as it will go, as far as the drill allows.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

Then we drill a deep hole at an angle so that it connects inside with the first hole.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

If you look from above and drill the side, you can see the intersection and exit of the drill. Because to feel the intersection manually, when using a powerful punch, is quite problematic.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

Pour 100-200 diesel into the hole. You can use the ignition for coal, which is usually used for cooking barbecue. I do not recommend using gasoline - it will quickly burn out.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

From the HB fabric we make a kind of wick. Wet the strip with ignition and lower it into the hole.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

We set fire to the remaining end of the wick.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

While it flares up, we make several more holes on different sides, for better air access.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

If the stump does not flare up the first time, add some dry branches to the hole and repeat the ignition.
A little later, stable burning was outlined.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

After 4 hours, the base clearly burned out inside the stump.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

He flared up more when the breeze blew.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

The stump burned and smoldered almost all night. On the morning of the next day there was such a picture. It turned out something like a crater from a meteorite. It can be covered with fresh chernozem to ensure good grass growth.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

This is not necessary, but I decided to make a fire in this place in order to burn the unnecessary branches left from the sawn tree and at the same time burn the roots in the ground.
How to simply remove a stump without uprooting

I am satisfied with the result.

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Comments (20)
  1. Valentine
    #1 Valentine Guests December 13, 2018 11:09
    14
    Everything is clear, thank you very much!
  2. just mortus
    #2 just mortus Guests December 13, 2018 14:10
    7
    try so to burn the stump from an apple tree or pear ..
    1. Pavel
      #3 Pavel Visitors December 13, 2018 20:32
      1
      it is necessary to anoint with chicken droppings, it will dry, then burn.
  3. Guest Oleg
    #4 Guest Oleg Guests December 13, 2018 15:01
    8
    Still like nitrate, you can soak the stump and roots.
    With nitrate, everything burns without access to air - the roots burn out even underground.
  4. ghj njj
    #5 ghj njj Guests December 13, 2018 15:47
    11
    almost never.
    only old dry stumps.
    sawed off a fresh tree - will not burn, a lot of water in the ground - will not burn. at best, smolder for a week, with periodic ignition.
    and roots that are not twigs in size are removed.
  5. Guest Anatoly
    #6 Guest Anatoly Guests December 13, 2018 16:52
    2
    I’ll just remind you that thick roots can burn for a week and go underground for a dozen meters!
  6. Height
    #7 Height Guests December 13, 2018 20:00
    3
    CONSEQUENCES (!) Of the indicated actions can eliminate the stump itself and ensure good grass growth, but the roots of such a tree go 1 - 1.5 m and it is very difficult to ensure the growth of other trees, especially garden ones. Faster to dig it in a trench at a distance of 1 m and chopped off the roots, uproot, hooked with a cable a / machine. 2-4 hours time
  7. Guest Oleg
    #8 Guest Oleg Guests December 17, 2018 21:20
    4
    Good advice, thanks.
  8. X
    #9 X Guests December 18, 2018 12:44
    1
    Niter, the most option. In childhood, huge stumps were burned, and not the driest ones .. Nitrate was used "ball", a good oxidizing agent.
  9. Czech BTL
    #10 Czech BTL Guests December 18, 2018 16:30
    2
    How much oxygen burned! We must act with an hatchet and crowbar - quickly and without fire.
    1. Flag and drum
      #11 Flag and drum Guests December 27, 2018 17:27
      1
      A flag in your hands and a drum around your neck. Well, a hatchet with a crowbar.
  10. Guest Artyom
    #12 Guest Artyom Guests December 18, 2018 18:18
    2
    try to repeat it on peat bog !!!
  11. grandfather Vladimir
    #13 grandfather Vladimir Guests December 19, 2018 23:42
    3
    In the summer, I saw a small bulldozer digging up - I dug a hole in a clean place, then I simply raked the stumps and roots dug up with a special finger-cultivator, cleared ten hundred in one day, though the stumps were no more than 15 cm. in diameter - birch stumps - fresh.
  12. Guest Nikolay
    #14 Guest Nikolay Guests January 6, 2019 5:48 p.m.
    1
    Instead of kerosene, you can soak a stump with an aqueous solution of ammonium nitrate (this fertilizer is sold in hardware stores). After drying, after a while, using the same wick, set fire.
  13. dad
    #15 dad Guests January 7, 2019 03:22 AM
    1
    A chainsaw is easier to saw, after not digging a lot of stump.
  14. sergey sergeev
    #16 sergey sergeev Guests January 8, 2019 6:04 p.m.
    0
    The author was a little misled, two days should be fired, solariums of 20 liters. Well, the roots remain in the ground.
  15. someone
    #17 someone Guests January 14, 2019 1:37 p.m.
    2
    I "remove" stumps in a natural way: I cut the stump flush with the ground, spread grass roots (grass seeds) on top, sprinkle with fertile soil, tamp, water. After a few years, the stump and roots completely rot in the ground. If the trees are relatively small (15-30cm.), I leave a part of the trunk about 1 meter high. I attach a stand to the cut and put a flower pot on it or some kind of garden decorative thing. After about 5 years, I remove the trunk, swinging it around.
  16. Anatoly
    #18 Anatoly Guests February 14, 2019 18:43
    0
    Just help hemp rot. Rainy weather is common throughout the fall. Use this help from above. In early September, but next to the stump, dig a trench one shovel deep and the length of a hand saw. Cut the stump below ground level and bury it. You can water it well. But even without it, the next year in the summer you will not be able to find it.
  17. Guest Sergey
    #19 Guest Sergey Guests March 8, 2019 06:19
    0
    If you dig up a stump, then you can start using the earth earlier, and in this way there are a lot of thick and strong roots.
  18. dedsever83
    #20 dedsever83 Guests March 8, 2019 2:35 p.m.
    0
    I don’t fool myself, if it doesn’t bother me much - I leave it as it is, for about 2-3 stumps it completely rots. Another thing is bad - ants begin to wind up in them!

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