Tree stump removal instructions that make a very difficult, or even an impossible job, manageable.
I spent about twenty years re-landscaping homes. We used to re-landscape three homes a week, and we did all of this work on evenings and Saturdays because I worked a complete time job. I have no idea just how many homes I re-landscaped over time, however the number is more than 500. Each one of those re-landscaping jobs had overgrown landscaping that needed to be removed before we're able to 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.
Of course county wisdom says that you just back up Bubba's pickup, wrap a chain around the stump and drive away as fast as you possbly can. I'll admit, I've done that. Does it work? Arborist Hertford 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 this type of 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 yourself. Tree stump removal yourself with the wrong tools can be an impossible task. Tree stump removal with the right tools is doable. I won't say it's easy work because it isn't. But if you use the proper 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 round the tree stump with an excellent 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 from the stump. In the event that 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 a little farther and just start digging a small trench round the stump with the spade, then going around 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 should come out from the ground. Don't pry and bend up your tools. Use the tools to slice the roots. Prying won't allow you to get anywhere as well as your tools will be ruined.
I've been teaching this system on the Internet for a number of years now and folks write to me continuously and tell me how well it worked for them.