Tree stump removal instructions that produce a very difficult, or even an impossible job, manageable.
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 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 actual landscaping job.
That meant that tons of tree stumps and large stumps from overgrown shrubbery needed to be removed.
Of Tree Surgeons St Albans says which you back up Bubba's pickup, 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 a great way to really tear up a pick up truck, completely destroy the lawn, and possibly 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 through the years we refined a technique for actually removing these stumps yourself. Tree stump removal yourself with the wrong tools can be an impossible task. Tree stump removal with the proper tools is doable. I won't say it's easy work because it isn't. But if you are using 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 procedure for digging around the tree stump with an excellent nursery digging spade, and using a landscape bar, also referred to as a spud bar to cut the roots as you encounter them while digging.
The secret is to start out from the stump. If you start working too closely to the stump you will come across large heavy roots that will be too difficult to cope with. So if you begin a little farther and just start digging a small trench round the stump with the spade, then on offer in the trench you merely 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 out from the ground. Don't pry and bend up your tools. Utilize the tools to cut the roots. Prying won't get you anywhere as well as your tools will undoubtedly be ruined.
I've been teaching this system on the Internet for several years now and folks write to me continuously and tell me how well it worked for them.