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  • Nightwatch

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    Take a reciprocating saw and a long pruning blade-cut out a cone and roots till you're about 8-10" below ground...pour in 5# of white cane sugar covering the cut roots and put the dirt back in.
     
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    Drill a hole in the stump. Fill it with copper. Pennies, wire, or any other form of copper. Hammer it into the wood.

    The old school way to kill a tree was to hammer a copper nail into it. Ive never seen any copper nails but copper wire will work.


    Round Up is a Monsanto honey bee killing, cancer causing concoction from hell. It'll more then some turd stump. Ask Ben & Jerry ice cream about Round Up....
     

    Jack Ryan

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    I need a way to get rid of this thing for good. I don't want to have to dig it up and I don't mind if there is a stump left. I can borrow a chainsaw and cut it shorter.

    We've cut it down a few times but it keeps growing back and the trunk keeps getting bigger in diameter.

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    NEXT time, leave 5 or 6 feet of it sticking out of the ground. Then dig a ditch around it with the tractor as deep as you can. Shovel if that's all you got.

    Push on it, pull on it, repeat in every direction. If you are NOT sensing any movement dig some more.

    Repeat above. If no movement fill the ditch with water and let it soak a while. Repeat in every direction.

    Use a tractor if you've got it a truck if you don't.

    Use the 5 or 6 foot handle you left on it to gain leverage on the stump. Put a chain on it up high and pull in every direction with what ever you've got.

    Any roots reveal themselves in the process cut 'em off.
     

    Dawico

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    NEXT time, leave 5 or 6 feet of it sticking out of the ground. Then dig a ditch around it with the tractor as deep as you can. Shovel if that's all you got.

    Push on it, pull on it, repeat in every direction. If you are NOT sensing any movement dig some more.

    Repeat above. If no movement fill the ditch with water and let it soak a while. Repeat in every direction.

    Use a tractor if you've got it a truck if you don't.

    Use the 5 or 6 foot handle you left on it to gain leverage on the stump. Put a chain on it up high and pull in every direction with what ever you've got.

    Any roots reveal themselves in the process cut 'em off.
    You see the picture, right?

    It appears to be in a back yard in what I am going to assume is a neighborhood. It also looks to be right against the fence which I assume is also the property line.

    Your suggestion isn't really feasible given the stump's location.
     

    Shotgun Jeremy

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    A slightly different perspective -

    My HOA does not allow me to remove trees without approval. I didn't want to bother with that on a fig tree that was too close to the house. What I did was just grab a chain saw and "trim" it so radically that I felt sure it would die.

    My next door neighbor even came out of his house to tell me that I was trimming it at the wrong time of the year and way too extensively. That was exactly what I wanted. Historically, the HOA doesn't enforce the rules when a tree is visibly dead.

    The net result?

    This year we had the biggest crop of figs we've had in 20 years.

    Moral of the story? Don't do what I did.
    Well you sure showed your neighbor!!!
     

    popper

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    Crape murder. You will have to cut the horizontal roots and pull/dig the stump. All the sweet stuff will draw termites. Anti-freeze does also. Get a sawsall and a pack of roughcut blades and get to work. Roundup only works on green, not core wood. You have to get the root 'crown' out to kill it.
     

    roadkill

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    Remedy and diesel. If you don't want to spend the money on a gallon of Remedy try just diesel like I said before. Cut stump and spray or pour diesel on fresh cut. Drink and beer and wait.
     

    Jack Ryan

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    You see the picture, right?

    It appears to be in a back yard in what I am going to assume is a neighborhood. It also looks to be right against the fence which I assume is also the property line.

    Your suggestion isn't really feasible given the stump's location.

    Looks like it's only about 6-10 feet from the house. I wouldn't assume that's the property line but if it is, just talk it over with the neighbor.

    There is a tree and brush killer that will kill stumps and trees, not round up. I'd probably try that since you aren't going to be mowing under a fence.

    Even if this particular OP can't use any of the info in the whole thread there are other people reading it who make get something useful from reading how a variety of people have dealt with the situation.

    IF IT WEREN'T under a fence I'd do as I suggested before. AND IF it weren't already cut off so short. That fence panel would come down in about ten minutes and you could dig that deep enough with a shovel in less than an hour that it would pull out with a good truck and a chain. If there is another good, BIGGER tree you could reach with a chain and come along you could pull it with that unless the stump is bigger than that tree looks.
     
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