Council workmanship again!!!

Hi kazy,

That's equally appalling work from the coucil - They should've either removed the stump or certainly cut it as flush to the ground as possible. How hard is the ground surrounding it? If it's manageable you may just have to dig the thing out by hand, using iron bars, hatchett, mattock, spades or whatever to chisel away at the roots as you do so. With a stump that size it's going to take a long while for any solutions like roundup or other so called stump killers to work. You don't want to overdo the chemicals otherwise you could end up poisoning the soil around the stump. It's that or get a stump grinder in!!

 

you need someone with a stump grinder

 

When you see a tree surgeon working near, offer them a ferw £ss or a nice bottle of wine to knock it off to just above ground level for you. Would take me a few mins with my big chain saw.

Once its cut low drill a few holes and sprinkle some amonium sulphamate crystals over.

High stumps are a pet hate of mine, pure laziyness, fair enough your not going to ruin a £45 saw chain by cutting too low to the ground but that doesnt mean leaving 2' of stump showing.

 

Hows this for a large stump,



Its what the council does around here, they cut anything back that looks in the slightest dangerous and then the stup gets left until someone has a bit of time to spare, usually about two years later, when they cut the rest down.
Thats why I thought your robinias were for the total chop Paul.

In their very green manner all the branches are just thrown into the undergrowth in piles, as they would say, to allow insects to feed on, so providing food for other animals.

Ofcourse it all hogwash, they just wont spend the money tidying the place up.

 

hi TS thanks for advise the ground around it is good to dig , i got lots of tools including an iron bar that i used to dig some hedges out,will hyjack a tree surgeon or a man with a large hatchett when i see one, hi paul where would i get crystals from, and pete thats a mighty triffid

 

Kazy, I had a sycamore cut down in my garden about 10 years ago,and over the years it grew some really facinating fungi on it, including one that looked like a frogs head. I painted two eyes on it and the grandkids thought it was great. hee hee. 02

 

Kazy, I buy it trade in 10kg buckets but you can get it from the garden centre marketed as stump out (or a similar name)

 

Thanks paul, hey 02 do you think it looks like the mountain from close encounters ( du du du du du )

 

Mount Etna maybe????!!!

 

In my experience stump killing sprays, liquids and crystals don't work that well. In order to work well the tree stump still needs to have an active xylem/phloem in order to absorb them, even though you may drill in holes and pour the stuff inside. It's a long, slow process. Tree surgeons needn't worry about damaging chains if they clean around the base as much as possible to remove grit, stones and the like. That's a poor excuse.

 

Agree, and with oregon multicut chain or similar the odd bit of grit left is less of an issue. When I was doing forestry work I always used to have a handaxe with me in the pickup specificly to clean around the base, Even now not doing mutch tree work I still keep it to hand.

BTW, Are you a husquvarna or a Stihl man? I use husqys at the moment, a 575 and a 357, the tourqe of the big saw is amazing and the air filter seems to last three times as long before needing cleaning.

 

Stihl for climbing and Husqvarna for ground work. The 357 is a good saw, but they've never made one that runs as well, or for longer, than the old 254XP! :D

 

Your dead right, I sold my old 254 several years ago and have regreted it since. Fantastic bomb proof saws.