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Removing a tree stump

sevenhills · 2022-10-26 16:36:27

I have just sawn down a tree in my garden, it's a healthy tree but it was too closed to the path. It's at least 12" in diameter and a similar amount in height. As I haven't used a chainsaw before, I didn't want to strain myself too much by cutting it lower. It was still hard work, for me. I am thinking about burning it,…

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MovingForwards Posts: 17,149 Forumite

28 October 2022 at 4:49PM

My OH used his axe to deal with our big stump as the stump grinder option from the tree surgeon was almost as much as taking both trees down. It took a few months, digging round the one stump, chopping sections away and hacking at the main roots, but you'd never know it ever existed in that spot now; it was huge with multiple trunks coming off it.

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