# Dealing with trees/stumps in a \*forceful\* manner.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dealing-with-trees-stumps-in-a-forceful-manner/342431>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 31, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dealing-with-trees-stumps-in-a-forceful-manner/342431 "2006-01-31T23:15:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dealing-with-trees-stumps-in-a-forceful-manner/342431/61 "2006-02-03T18:09:33Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> I await the news of your Darwin Award with great anticipation.

If I live through this as I wrestle with this ominous structure of Mother Nature, I will be more qualified than you as a stump consultant… think about that.  
Besides, most people who win that award are those who DON’T think before they act… this OBVIOUSLY not being the case.

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**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dealing-with-trees-stumps-in-a-forceful-manner/342431/62 "2006-02-03T21:22:04Z")

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If organics is the new benchmark, I propose maranading the tree stump in a hoison-teriyaka soy paste for several weeks.

Then announce an international vegan convention.

Or, think Purina Woodpecker Chow. 😉

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dealing-with-trees-stumps-in-a-forceful-manner/342431/63 "2006-02-13T18:49:48Z")

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For me, the winner was money. Wave some money in the air and wait for a strapping young lad to show up with a hydraulic stump grinder.

That was some of the best $180/hour I’ve spent in a long time.

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**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dealing-with-trees-stumps-in-a-forceful-manner/342431/64 "2006-02-13T19:58:15Z")

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> [@Fuel](#):
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> If I live through this as I wrestle with this ominous structure of Mother Nature, I will be more qualified than you as a stump consultant… think about that.  
> Besides, most people who win that award are those who DON’T think before they act… this OBVIOUSLY not being the case.

/em refreshes [http://www.sun-sentinel.com](http://www.sun-sentinel.com), [http://www.herald.com](http://www.herald.com), [http://www.palmbeachpost.com](http://www.palmbeachpost.com) in anticipation. 😉

Or don’t think it all the way through. I hope you have much much more than ‘internet-gained knowledge’ in the handling of ordinance and explosive devices.

Some of the trees they destumped around here had diameters of 20 feet or more; took a lot of heavy moving equpiment. On the other hand, stumps on my daily walk (between 2 and 2.5 feet in diameter) only took and afternoon’s grinding.

How big is the stump, what kind of root system (I see you mention ficus but I can’t tell if that is the stump you are dealing with), and why is it so urgent to remove it urgently and in a uniqueish way?

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