Tree Stump Removal

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I spent about twenty years re-landscaping homes. We used to re-landscape three homes weekly, and we did all this work on evenings and Saturdays because I worked a full time job. I have no idea just how many homes I re-landscaped over time, however the number is more than 500. Every one of those re-landscaping jobs had overgrown landscaping that needed 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 needed to be removed.

Needless to say county wisdom says which you back up Bubba's pickup truck, wrap a chain round the stump and drive away as fast as you possbly can. I'll admit, I've done that. Does it work? Type of. But it's also a great way to really tear up a pickup, completely destroy the lawn, and perhaps damage the house.

Therefore it's not such a good idea. Particularly when you are doing focus on someone's house like I was doing.

So over time we refined a method for actually removing these stumps yourself. Tree stump removal yourself with the wrong tools is an impossible task. Tree stump removal with the right tools is doable. I will not say it's easy work because it isn't. But if you use the proper tools and the right techniques you don't have to strain your back and ruin your tools. It's more of a methodical process of digging round the tree stump with a good nursery digging spade, and utilizing a landscape bar, also known as a spud bar to slice the roots as you encounter them while digging.

The secret would be to start out from the stump. If you begin working too closely to the stump you will come across large heavy roots which will be too difficult to cope with. So if you begin just 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 should come from the ground. Don't pry and bend up your tools. Use the tools to cut the roots. Prying won't allow you to get anywhere as well as your tools will undoubtedly be ruined.

I've been teaching this system on the Internet for a number of years now and people write to me at all times and tell me how well it worked for them.