Stump burning experiment - PLUS - hazard tree removal
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2020
- Two different stump burning techniques. Use a barrel on both stumps but prep each one a little bit different to see which one works best for us. Also remove two dead trees. Including one leaning towards the barn using a ratchet strap and a little logic.
On one stump i left the stump above the ground but cut a few grooves in the stump to help the fire work its way through. On the other stump i cut it flush with the ground and did a few plunge cuts into the stump to see if it would help it burn further into the ground. The biggest thing that i learned is that you will need a few days or a dedicated blower to help keep the stump burning.
Why i cut the barrels the way i did: I cut the top out but left the rim on side to keep the strength of the barrel, but cut the rim out of the other side so i could be shaped around irregular stumps. The only thing I really had to pay attention to was that i put the air supply hole on the correct end of the barrel.
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Stump burning experiment - PLUS - hazard tree removal
Totally awesome that you got your daughter involved and let her learn to operate the tractor. Best thing we can do with our kids is get them involved! You're an awesome dad!
John DeFalco she loves helping out. Lucky dad right here. Thanks for watching!
Very cool watching your young daughter drive the tractor and more importantly work for something she wants. My daughter is in her 30's now, learned to drive tractors young plus has great work ethic today. She will never forget these days working helping her dad. You won't either.
Paul Martin everyday is just me crossing my fingers in doing it right. Time will tell I guess. Either way, some great memories. Thanks for watching!
By the end of video, your daughter was all over yard without you. She did fantastic job with good guidance.
Your daughter is doing great, learning how to use the tractor. Honestly, that's the best way to learn!
Safety is important but I ran my Dad's John Deere when I was 7 or 8 years old. I taught my cousin's son to run the Old Farmall with a brush hog when he was maybe 10 or 12 (with my close supervision of course). Too many kids growing up afraid of their own shadow today.
Raw Bacon I agree with all of this. Thanks!
You can’t blame them for not finding appropriate app on the smartphone that would tell them what to do. You taking about kids growing up? How about adults losing their intelligence, creativity, ability to solve problems due to growing dependence on technology......a technology that they don’t even know how to properly utilize. When I see people spending a minute or two to ask Siri what time it is.....while wearing a wrist watch....I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. People believe in everything thing they see or read online, and blindly follow advices of so called “experts” that often have no idea what they are doing. People lose ability to make decisions and become slaves of their own stupidity.
Thank you for your video....proof that humankind is not yet doomed....we actually have a chance to continue our existence.
uncletigger ....when I said dependence on technology I didn’t mean just Siri. That was just one of the examples. I said that I’ve seen people spending more time to find out the time by asking Siri, when they could simply look at their wrist watch. Clocks and watches are around for centuries and we depend on them to be able to tell the time. We are not obsessed with it though. Personally, I don’t remember looking at the watch every 2 minutes because I was addicted to it. There is a lot of technology that creates dependence which is somehow, let’s call it...,’healthy’. Cars for example. There is technology that is useful and often very much needed, but there is also technology that can be easily abused. Technology that creates unhealthy obsession and addiction if we let it control us. I don’t know how to explain any better and that you understood my point of view. As always, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. This is mine and I stand by this. I respect if you don’t agree with me. World would be boring if we all were the same peas from one pod.
liked because you're exactly the kind of father this world needs.
instilling work ethic and giving them encouragement and the freedom to figure out how to use equipment.
Your daughter will grow to be strong, skilled, and confident.
Good man.
HazardPay appreciate the kind words and thank you for watching!
Never understatement the value of teaching them when their young.
Worm Hole Farming I agree!
Spectacular letting your daughter learn the equipment at her age. Great moments in their lives!
Use an auger bit 3/4-1” diameter and six inch length. Drill into the stump. Fill holes the night before with either diesel or cooling oil. Stump will absorb. The added holes will allow quicker heat penetration as well as fuel absorption. Much faster.
Your daughter is definitely old enough to start driving your small tractor and a lawnmower. She did a good job and you taught her a good lesson about being willing to work for things she wants. My father put me on our small tractor out in one of our pasture fields when I was 9 years old. He gave me some basic instructions and told me to drive it around until he came back in an hour or so. The next morning he hooked the plow to it and put me to plowing the fields.
Yup. Your video popped up on my recommendations. I watched it with the sound off. (I'm listening to music and feeling nostalgic.) Wonderful to see your lovely daughter helping you out. My son, an undeserved gift from God, helps me out sometimes. I'll miss him, my only, when he goes off on his own. Good health to you and your family, sir. And happy birthday to the greatest nation on earth. Great 'cause of people like you and your family.
Arkham Inmate thanks for watching. Kids are blessing, I agree with that. Hope you have a safe and happy fourth!
Ya gotta love it when a plan comes together. Watching you teach your daughter how to drive the tractor reminds me of my wife and I teaching our daughter how to mow. Enjoy every moment you have with your daughters. Children grow up much too quickly. Have a blessed and safe week.
William Matthews you’re absolutely right about that. That’s one of the many reasons we have this channel. So we will have videos to look back one.
@@CaptainKleeman Same here. Every construction site my son and I record he remembers us being there. Even if I don't get a ton of subscribers it's still worth it just because we record them together and that's fun. Take care Captain.
I started teaching my girls to drive the car at 14. By the time they took the driver's test, they were like, "I got this!" My little one's roommates sometimes ask her to parallel park or back into a spot for them. That's my little girl!
Looking good, held my breath when you cut the tree next to the barn🙏👏. Great job, thanks.
wow! watching this brought me back to when my dad taught me to drive our john deere 350 front end loader. I was barely tall enough to reach the pedals but it was the best because it felt like i was driving a tank! awesome life experiences you're teaching her.
Tim S thank you!
I did this exact same process removing a stump at the very edge of my concrete patio. It was closer to the house so I could not build it too large. I found that doing smaller, more frequent burns removes the stump faster with less effort. You want to remove the ashes because no matter how hot you make your fire, if the ashes are insulating the stump, it won't burn. I removed a similar sized stump with two bags of charcoal and about 1/10th the amount of wood but it took me 8 days total but fewer hours per day. I love this technique.
The Way you Analyzed the Saw Cut on the Tree Bottled My Mind! Very Impressive Mike & Logic that made me feel Stupid when I Realized it should had Been Common Sense to a Fella Like Me. Nope, not even a little bit
Many years ago, back in the late 60's I worked as firefighter for bush fires. One of our biggest enemies was root fires. In heavier bush fire would go down into the roots of trees (especially dead ones) and burn for sometimes weeks before it would resurface sometimes quite a distance away and start another fire! So normal practise was to fly over periodicaly to check for signs of resurfacing fire.
Gerald Heitman I bet you have some great stories from those years.
Exactly what I was mentioning above.. burning stumps is not good practice really.
I like the way you advissd your daughter about turning the tractor. Always nice to have little helpers. You make a good point about your method of stump burning, all you have to invest is a bit of time now and again - doesnt matter if it takes a few days as long as it can be topped up to keep it going.
Alan Hutchins that’s always the learning method that works for me. Someone could tell me how 100 times, but I won’t understand until i actually try it. She’ll figure it out over time. Just glad she wants to learn! Lucky dad here
What a wonderful lifestyle you have and a beautiful family - If I could go back in time and choose a different way of life, yours would be ideal. Love from Australia.
Thank you sir!
I appreciated that you cut the tree over the barn high enough to have saved like 50$ worth of oyster mushrooms...assuming someone grabbed that haul
I’m glad I found this channel, this guy is a hard worker like myself!
Random Guy hey glad you found it as well! Welcome aboard
Always nice seeing young ones learning and working on equipment to better their knowledge.
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I was quite pleased with the results of using potassium nitrate stump remover. In the process of applications, I learned that hot water on the stove would dissolve a much larger portion of it and then just pour that on the above ground stump to air dry for a few weeks. Any hint of fire started after that will cause the stump to smoulder on underground perhaps a foot deep as the potassium nitrate is an oxidizer turning the stump wood into a very low grade fuse, and the remaining potassium nitrate after smouldering does go out acts as a quick decomposing fertilizer for rot to run rampant with what ever is left. Wind up with a hole in the ground. If you the time to let it dry (2 weeks?) and burn (another week) , it certainly takes the work out of that job.
This process worked well for me 20 years ago on seven poplar stumps in my Brooklyn back yard, although I bypassed the hot water and used kerosene. I used a 3/4" spade bit to drill several holes about 10" deep before pouring in the potassium nitrate and kerosene . 48 hours later I reprimed the holes with kerosene and set it on fire. It burned for about a minute and then smouldered for a couple of days. Two years later, I roto-tilled the garden where those stumps were and there was nothing left of them.
I enjoyed watching your video and found it very relaxing. Thank you for taking the time to record and share with us.
drill some holes and make some plunge cuts in the stump, dig a hole 1 or 2 feet deep about 2_3 feet away from the stump and make a tunnel towards the stump like you do to make a smokeless fire. and make the fire in the hole 12 h later you have a big smoldering hole
The metal drums, drill holes all around the bottom about 1 foot up, that lets any wind blow through instead of needing the leaf blower.
The biggest difference, pour a mason jar of diesel over them and let it soak for 24 hours before starting the fire, that will suck the diesel into the wood and burn it deeper right from the start.
This type of stump removal is always a slower method, burning is going to take 5 to 7 days to get them down to below ground level so you can have a non hazardous yard / play area.
Burnt motor oil added to the stump also helps if your area is not ballistic about such stuff.
Hey I do this for a living. I cringed every time you walked under the tree. The fell path is off limits after you cut your notch. Don’t turn your back on that tree, complacency kills.
Robert Sheffey nothing complacent about that. Situational awareness goes a long way. Thanks for looking out Though
Complacent and arrogant. Turning your back on the tree and walking beneath it is never a good idea. But hey, you do you since you know better.
FlusterCluck thanks for watching!
Well said Sir. This kind of arrogance is what gets someone killed or severely hurt.
good tips guys about never turning your back on a dead or dying tree and ones thats got a gob cut already, but I NEVER put my chain saw in to the ground, they are designed to cut clean wood, they only get wrecked with all of the stones and soil and dirt, by the time you have replaced a new chain, you might as well just pay some one with a stump grinding machine to grind them out, not only is it quicker, better, cheaper in the long run, you don't piss off your neighbours with burning piles of timer and smoke for two days
A very entertaining , and informative video ! I love the way you give your daughter the opportunity to work and learn . She is doing a great job ! Thanks for sharing
stashwax roller I’ll be sure to pass on the message to her!
Amen! If she learns to work well now, she will never be out of a job later!
Hey Fireman , the one with out the blower put (3) bricks under the barrel to get more air to it ? Remember the fire triangle ? You are getting it done with your leaf blower man ! Nice Family Channel
maybe try the blower put in so that the air circulates around the barrel, this circular motion should keep the heat in longer, making a hotter fire, causing the stump to burn quicker. The "vortex" type airflow, in combination with the raised barrel, should cut burn time, increase heat, and possibly melt the barrel. I have used this with a gasifier forge I made and burned out several steel crucibles. I now use cast Iron, and a computer fan, to get the heat where I need for aluminum casting.
Neat video! And many thanks to your beautiful young assistant! She did an excellent job! :-)
Chris Skelhorn she sure did!
Looks like you have another trained heavy equipment operator ❤️
That worked good for the stump burning. It gets so hot you could try a little metal forging next time too. It is great to see your daughter learning how to drive the tractor. You might need her again if you get something stuck. I had to pull a couple out of the lawn yesterday and I could have used another driver.
Nice work dropping that tree. Since I don't have an excavator and it wouldn't fit in my yard if I did have I had to try burning the stump. I didn't do it 36 hours but I still got great results after just about 10 hours.
What I did different: I dug (with a shovel) several inches around the stump so that it burned more of the stump. It worked well, I'd recommend trying it the next time you do something like this. Like you said, it sure beats renting a stump grinder!
Construction Trucks I agree with that, I think that’s the biggest thing I would have changed, digging around them a little bit more.
Captain Kleeman get a new handle for that old mattock you’ve been using, that’s the ideal tool for digging round stumps and stuff.
@@CrimeVid Yep, that's exactly what I use too. A mattock works great. You can cut up some thin roots with them too.
Captain great video, your daughter picked up driving the tractor pretty quick. It’s good to have family time and let the kids work for something they want. Be safe
Kevin Kenyon thank you!
Remindes me of home I remember I started on a 35 hp Kubota. good skills to learn getting a feeling for equipment is a great skill throughout life
david welch I agree!
"I like pancakes but I don't like being one." Me too!!! LOL!!!
Tacocin 😂
Captain Kleeman 😂
Hahaha best line of the video!!!
1 more opinion: a great dad, letting your daughter get involved!❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍
I subbed as soon as I saw the ratchet strap holding your truck closed.
MAN OH MAN THAT WAS FANTASTIC - IT WORKS SOOOOO WELL INDEED AND YOU HAD A FREE DRIVER - WELL DONE AND STAY SAVE AND CHEERS FROM AUSTRALIA !!!!
Michael Schuenemann thanks! Cheers to you as well!
Well Captain, that was a tree mendous job, and you weren't stumped by it !!! 🤭🤭
Good to see your daughter is already getting a good work ethic, it will stand her in good stead for the rest of her life 👍🇬🇧👏👏
Alex Osborne I appreciate The Puns!
good to see your daughter helping dad, job may have took a little longer, but if she wants to learn you have take time to teach her. I tell people I can show you how to do something, but they have to learn the task themselves. have never met anyone who was born with experience.
DeWayne Gaskin absolutely agree!
This method does work well, but often we underestimate the amount of water the dead stump is still pulling from the ground. It is often a two day project.
Best and fastest way I have found it to use a pressure washer with the very straight stream of water. It cuts through the dirt super fast, gets down under the roots so you can cut them all, and is just great fun on a hot summer day. Once all the roots are exposed, it's super easy to cut them and then remove the stump. Fill the hole back in with dirt and your done. Total time to complete this is about an hour per stump.
Good on you imparting real life skills to your daughter👍
I know this is an older video, but I am so pleased to see a parent instilling these values in their children. also, I enjoyed the video
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I learned how to heat treat metal on RUclips using a small charcoal grill, and used motor oil.I also have a blower I bought at a local Goodwill that was used to inflate large inflatable things kids used to jump in. I also have an antique Varistat that was used for controlling lights in a theater. I used it to lower the blower speed that blew air into the bottom of the charcoal grill. I needed to make metal parts to mount a larger gas tank on my motorcycle.I heated them to red hot in the grill, pulled them out and dropped them into used motor oil. Not only did it blacken them it made them rust proof. I then baked them in the oven at 200 degrees for an hour just to temper them. As for stump removal. I used potassium nitrate stump remover. I drilled holes straight down into the stump and some diagonal holes for venting. I dumped stump remover into the holes on top and poured kerosene in with the stump remover, then ignited the kerosene and let it burn and after 24 hours the whole stump was burned into ashes.
awizardalso I’ll give that a go next time. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and adventures. Always interesting watching fire combined with tree stumps. Every since I saw on TKOR how to easily make liquid liquid oxygen I’ve wanted to see it pored on a smoldering tree stump. That would have been fun to see, especially on the one that had a depression on it. The other thing that would be fun to see would be an burning iron lance, worked with a guy once who told stories about a previous job he had where they used the lance torches to cut out entire sections of a damaged copper smelting line whenever if failed and poured molten metal all over the line. They would cut down thru the concrete and equipment to virgin ground and rebuild from scratch whenever they had a blowout since it was quicker than trying to cut the area clear otherwise. Stay safe, wishing you and your family the best.
Tom Bixby well you have given me several things to research!
Great video captain. Excellent job cutting down the trees. First time seeing the burn barrel over stump and I think it did awesome. 👍👍
Andy Moss thank you!
having burned out more than a few stumps... a couple of points - dig down around the stump as much as you can. The ash acts as an insulator, it helps to remove it everyonce in a while. Also put some holes 1" or large into the stumps seems to help. almost no matter what though it takes 4-5 burns to get rid of a stump, that assumes you want it 4-6 inches below ground level.
Zifnab appreciate the tips! Thanks
Very good job taking down that tree!! I would say awesome job by the way!! And fun burning the stumps!💪👏👌👍🐂
Lenne Longe thank you!
Talk about raising your kids right, good job man
Jesus Martinez fingers crossed! Hey thanks for watching.
Great video Captain. Got the trees down, mowed and burned a lot of the trees and the stumps are almost gone. Keep us updated. Have a great day.
Brent King -gmail King will do!
"It's always nice when your family cares about you"
I always figured I'd find my wife handing out gas cards and matches around whatever firehouse I was working.
Fire Captain Tom 😂😂. Has to keep you on your toes!
The moment I saw your girl in the driver's seat of the John Deere, I blurted out, "Good Girl!" I really appreciate women who knows how to use tools. I got two daughters, but right now living in an apartment, so not sure what I'm gonna teach her. Either show her how to use my hand planes or buy her a sewing machine, I guess. I can't stand kids who don't bother learning any kind of skills.
truebluekit I agree. She wants to learn and I don’t mind slowing down a project a bit to let her learn.
Even in an apartment there is so much day to day stuff you can teach them that they will appreciate the rest of their lives. Since I can remember any project my dad did my brother and I were right there helping (in the teen years it was accompanied by lots of grumbles but we appreciate it now!). My dad taught me to change out electrical outlets & switches, when we extended to driveway we learned to pour, tamp & finish concrete (and how to reinforce with rebar), we helped with infinite wood working projects large & small, put up fencing, changing out a garbage disposal, hung shelves and understood how to find a stud and what to do if something doesn’t line up with a stud etc. Every project was a teaching opportunity. When I bought my own home at 30 my dad brought his table saw over and I laid wood flooring in every room including heated underpayment & hooking it up to a thermostat all by myself, swapped out all my thermostats, etc. I felt incredibly empowered and prepared for home ownership because of my dad. I think that’s we he taught me more than any of the specific skills-that I was smart & capable enough to do it if I put my mind to it. I’m also a darn good cook because of my mom ;-) I’m 50 now and both my parents live with me in a little house they had built right next to mine on my property - I’m still learning from my dad with my sons right beside me.
There is some simple math on why external fires are so hard to burn out a stump but it all boils down to the fact that the water to steam conversion steals energy from around it acting as a layer of insulation.
Wet wood in a stump acts as an insulator only letting the heat get in 1-2 inches depending on wood density and how wet it is with the wood needing to hit 212F to cook off the water and over 660F before the wood itself burns. The stump itself has the energy to burn itself out once you get a fire started that starts the cooking off process but it needs a slow fire to do it to keep the burning edge away from the wet edge or too much energy is stolen and the fire cools off too much.
A simple 18 inch long wood auger bit to drill a central burn shaft in the stump and spots around it you can drill in for air intakes lets you turn the stump itself into a rocket stove and as long as you keep any rain off it over the next 24-48 hours it will slowly burn itself from the central burn shaft out without the huge pile of surface firewood needed past a few sticks to get the fire going.
Even helps on stumps you pop out of the ground to drill a central hole before you toss on the burn pile as it changes where the fire is burning from an outside in to an inside out fire.
Andrew H may be something I’ll have to try in the future. Thanks for the explanation sir!
awesome job, yeah some of the stuff makes me nervous like the ladder but thats only because im scared of heights lol.
27 point turn arounds are fine as long as nothing gets run over or mirrors broken way to go to get your daughter to learn not just the tractor but about life.
Erik Giggey you’ll notice there are no mirrors on the tractor 😂😂
Great video Captain. I just bought 40 Acres in the Ozarks so I am having fun with the trees myself. I love it. I may buy a sawmill.
Tom Sommer hey you end up with a mill let me know which type and how you like it. Congrats on your land purchase!
@@CaptainKleeman Will do.
I think the problem with the leaf blower is that you are directing the air flow up and out the top. That works great to burn up the wood you throw in, but the heat does not go into the stump, which is what you want. I tried burning one out last year and finally ended up digging a me-deep hole next to the stump and buried it. You have to be able to recognize defeat.
Great video captain kleeman!👍I was cringin😟😫when u was standin close to where the Tree was fallin!😫😁
Another interesting video from the Captain, very appropriate job for a Firefighter, look's like the stump's are 90% gone above ground, also it looks like you have an up and coming tractor driver in your Daughter....
Bob Vernon she definitely enjoys it
You are not a good parent but a GREAT parent!!!
Thank you!
Awesome quote: “ I like pancakes but don’t want to be one “. Great job,video and sound advice for those who care.Awesome. ,!👍👍👍
Always love watching you do tree work!!! I hope you and your family have a great week.
Mark Schmidt thank you and you as well!
Happy Father's day
Captain 🙏🏻🛐👍👍
Paul Betka thank you!
I like to use coal for stump burning. Have to start with some wood tinder and once the coal is burning and the blower starts it's hard to put out so it will burn the stump down pretty well.
Robert Palmore i may give that a go if I do this method again. Thanks for the tip!
your daughter driving the tractor reminded me of when I learned to drive when i was like 10 years old driving a riding lawn mower.
Making memories!
Good job Captain.
I added a ring of 2 inch holes at the bottom rim of the barrel to create a natural chimney air flow. A couple rocks to lift the drum a bit also works but you have to keep resetting the hot rocks... Less need for a blower with good ventilation down low. Stacking a second drum would be interesting to get even better chimney effect.
It's a lot easier to just check the fire every few hours than work the stump. Time is your friend with a slow burn. Light it and leave it. I've used an auger to drill a hole under the stump and pump air under the stump to burn it down deep. Occasionally blowing the ashes off allows more air into the burn.
Mark G I agree with all of that. Thanks for watching!
Teach them if want something they have to earn it. Make for honest hard workers. Very informative video. Thanks for the info.
Harold Lewis I agree!
I just came across your video, GREAT job! I'm going to try the same technique this weekend on a stump I can't pull out either.
Ok I stop and liked the video the moment I saw the strap holding the truck door closed truly my kind of guy 😁😁
Cameron Robinson haha, thanks!
Very interesting. The only thing I would change is, that I would leave the lid of the drum semi intact just cut out a triangle on the top, lift it up so I can add fuel. That way it would trap more heat in it and direct it at the sump, making it more of an oven and less of a chimney.
When my father would burn out a stump, he always planned for some way to use the heat. He would BBQ tons of meat and smoked salmon, fired a bunch of bisque clay pots once, and even built a two-person hot tub that he would place close to the stump. The last one was mostly for my mom, I think. It probably came from parents who lived through the Great Depression, learning not to waste anything.
Drill holes in the barrels and use charcoal rather than wood alone. I have burned out many a stump that way. It works quite well and costs far less than hiring someone with a stump grinder. There is another way to rid your property of stumps if you do not have to hurry and that is to drill holes in them and then fill the holes with saltpeter. Saltpeter will rot a stump out inside of a month to six weeks.
Thanks for sharing your video with us .... the world is already better with people like you and I..... there is no need to cut the bottom of the steel barrel, placing the barrel upside down on top of the tree trunk with an inlet on the top side for the fan will force the flames down on the tree trunk for a faster hotter burn where you need the flames, try it, learn and improve on it ; )
Great video kids and parents working together
Thank you!
Great video, good to see your kids helping you.
Bob Johnson thanks!
The rocket stove method it the way to go if you can. Ideally bore into the stump below ground level. When you said that there was a 4" water main near the stumps I though "oh, no. I can see where this will go". Fortunately you didn't have quite the success that I've had a few times. On a couple of stumps I've burned out I've managed to get up to about 20" below ground level and up to about 2-3ft along larger roots spreading radially.
Alan H rocket stove style seems to be the consensus on how to improve Th e method. May have to do another stump in the future for a comparison. Thanks for the suggestion!
You have some wonderful natural instincts. Contrary to that other guy. 🙃🙃🙃🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
That was cool when your daughter helped out, some of my fondest memories with my dad when i was young was helping him do things like that around the house.
Jodi Miller I’m sure those are some of his fondest memories as well!
Another way is to cut down deep into the stump saw or drill(drilling holes work better) then soak with used oil,kerosene,diesel. You can start this process months ahead of burning or 2-3 weeks just the shorter time frame you would have to soak it like 3 times a week,the more you do it the easier the stump will burn,also this way doesn't require you to have firewood or brush just drop match into a hole you drilled.Also you could just drill holes deep into the stump then burn. BUT no matter what you do burning a stump is a 2 day minimum process.
Dylan K definitely takes some time, lots of techniques to use as well. I may try that technique in the future. Thanks for the tip!
13:37 was my favorite part... not sure why, just was. Anyway... That was great! Thanks for the info! I've got a few stumps I've been trying to burn out for years, but never great luck. I'll probably try one of these techniques now! Well thought out plan for taking that leaning tree down! Makes perfect sense to me and looks like it worked perfectly! Nicely done! Thanks for the video!
BurningDinosaurs what?!? If you don’t make a franken stump grinder I will be highly disappointed. Trencher looks like it is going to work well by the way!
Rather than his way , punch biggest drill you have from out side edge at ground level, angled down in towards centre of stump at multiple points around stump , then multiple from top of stump straight down to meet up with these initial holes .blow this out with leaf blower so that air flow can flow from first holes down through stump and up through the holes in the top of the stump, . A moderately small fire on top of the stump will drop coals down the top of stump holes, and will also burn down from the top, as time goes by, the drilled holes will enlarge as they burn back into the stump , then back into the angled entry holes,
This will get better results and much faster, without needing huge amount of additional wood. The entire stump can be done in one go , time depends on how dry wood is, type of wood size of holes etc, but generally under a day even for decent sized stumps, and without consuming a heap of other wood, you only need a reasonably small fire initially to get this started
Looks like your daughter is doing all the work!
Super Dave she’s a strong one!
Lol, my granddad let me drive his JD1050 when I was like 12. Definitely helps with driving skills in the future
High Tach haha, that’s kind of what I’m hoping!
You can use high nitrate fertilizers to improve the burn rate on stumps by drilling a 1" hole down the center and filling it half full with fertilizer. The fertilizer has nitrates, which are good oxidizers, which will cause wood to burn without air.
Wesley223332 thanks for the tip!
Good ideas and the job of professional, quality video in the perfection. Tank you very much.
Wilfrid Kolarik thanks for watching.
Love the leaf blower idea.
Frank Barajas thanks!
Leaf blower and propane torch are my two favorite tools for fire starting.
skipgrumblis yup
I've found that drilling holes down through the stump & post holding a diagonal hole under the stump so air can be pushed up through it works great to burn a stump down below ground.
You can use flue pipe but I use old 4" steel pipe 10' long & a harbor freight shop blower jury rigged to one end.
Put the other end of the pipe under the stump, set your drum & build a fire, once the stump itself is burning turn the shop blower on the low setting & enjoy a few beers.
The idea is pretty simple, the blower provides (combustion air) that flows up through the stump & once the stump is burning on its own, no further feul is necessary.
The drum contains the cinders & ash will be minimal.
Backfill the hole & the surrounding grass will take it over like the stump was never there.
Cody Criss thanks for the suggestions!
I agree with your suggestions. However I would try and drill as many deeper holes on top and on sides as possible to speed up the burning process.
Great video Captain, love watching.
Thank you!
One improvement I noticed that could have been implemented is aiming the leaf blower downwards at the stump :) awesome video sir, I'm totally subscribing
Tarman The Champion thanks for the tip and glad you’re tagging along!
I built a blower for adding air to fires. I used an exhaust blower from a old 80% furnace. I mounted it to a plywood base in such a way that I could use a flap to control the air going into the blower inlet. From 0 to 100% air. From the blower outlet I use a old 2 inch shop vac. hose and a 4 ft. length of 2 inch Schld.. 40 pipe. Works great.
kkarllwt that sounds like a pretty slick setup!
Your property is beautiful, keep up the good work!
Trent Borgersen thank you!
I made the barrel into more of a stove by putting a chimney on top of the barrel and high loading door on the side. Fueled once and left it burn for a week until it popped up about 20 feet away and burned some weeds before I got it out. Stump followed the roots out as the chimney provided a draft.
E Good dang! Sounds like your method worked pretty well.
@@CaptainKleeman Not the first time i've heard a stump burn following the roots. Been told of one that burned a house down, when the burn followed the roots popped up and set the grass on fire.
E Good
U mean stove pipe on top and loading door set high up towards top instead of lower like these
E Good I'm interested in your design stove pipe on top and loading door set towards top of barrel right
Tree Perfect on dropping that tree. Landed right were you said 👍🏻. Love the safety tips too lol
Full Tilt Grading thank you sir!
I don't have stumps. In fact, I don't even have a yard. But for some reason, this was very enjoyable to watch
Joel Dazey haha, well thanks!
Pretty good aim with the fell. Not too shabby even though it wasn't a direct hit.
Good job! Congratulations from Brasil.
I drill the stumps full of holes with a 10" auger bit on the ones I burn. I have a 3' diameter culvert pipe I put over it. In about a week I'll finish cutting down a 30" diameter walnut tree so I bought a 17" 1" diameter auger and hook up a blower motor to the culvert pipe. I like to burn the stumps about a foot below the ground surface.
When I lived in Illinois I use to burn leaves they way you did the first stump . I built a system semilunar to what you did.
Tried that stump burning thing once, 20 odd years ago, on a small elm tree stump too close to a fence to get a tractor near. I used a 5 gallon can and an air compressor and a section of pipe to add air. (No leaf-blowers around) Melted the pipe end flat. Lots of heat. Kept at it for nearly a month, then gave up. When I sold the house 7 years ago, I removed that fence, and took the chance to remove the rest of the stump with a backhoe. I think the heat made the remaining stump "rot proof." (Archaeologists find "carbonized" wood all the time.) Seriously, I've been clearing brush and dead trees on our farm for the last month with a dozer, and I usually start my brush piles on top of a big stump, and even without a barrel, it works pretty well. Nice video, thanks!
Dan Severn Japanese have been preserving wood by lightly charring it for centuries. charcoal is a natural antibacterial. I just learned that the other day.
Elm is pretty tuff
@@bulletproofpepper2 It's not so much an antibacterial as when you turn it into charcoal you are leaving nothing but carbon behind which leaves nothing for insets or bacteria which would break the wood down exposed.
Your absolutely right! Best way to do it without a backhoe is just drill holes down into it and let nature take its course. It will be gone in a year or so.