Everyone has an opinion on how to burn a stump, but if your having fun with it, who gives a crap how you do it, I don't. I really enjoyed your video

love the live burn demonstration idea! One can also use the wood drill auger bit and drill a 3/4 inch diameter hold and about eighteen inch deep hole depth. Then simply take a bar of ivory soap and shave it down using a cheese grater into soap shavings. Then simply take the one cup of soap shavings put that in a ball canning jar and then fill it with a half cup of gasoline. Simply allow the gasoline to saturate the soap shaving and then simply stir the dissolving soap shavings softened up with the gasoline. Pour more gasoline into the ball jar filled with the dissolving soap shavings and then simply mix this dissolved mixture of gasoline mixed with soap shavings. Now brush and coat some pieces of wood scrap two by four pieces of wood with a brush with the soap chips dissolved in gasoline mixture. The soap hydrocarbon fat and gasoline mixture keeps the fire going with a very hot slow gradual burn and will keep ones tree wood stump burning very readily and easily.

That's a lot of progress for a green stump!! You're doinh Great

You sure had some enthusiastic help!God bless!

I've never seen someone execute the phrase "boys will be boys" so well

The kid is hilarious, seems well raised eager to work, nice Job

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

Thanks - he is a great kid!

Nothing quite like a good fire

Neighbours must love you.

The little lad is so gorgeous

Looks like your using a hammer drill with a masonry bit to drill through wood. Hows that working out for ya? Lol

All of that sweet sweet juice from the stump.

There is only one way to burn a stump, depending on the diameter drill 6 - 12 half inch holes around the stump at a 45° angel using a funnel pore diesel in the holes & over the stump every day for a week. On day 7 light it up, it will burn & not go out, & the bonus the roots will burn under ground

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

Very true... hardest thing about this stump was how wet the wood was.

@tstahler5420

9 ай бұрын

I've never had the opportunity to burn a stump but your way seems the most logical. I'd add, cut the stump lowest to the ground as possible. What's the point of burning 3ft of tree before it hits stump?

Great Job.

Inspirational. Loved it

@timgiovanelli2661

2 жыл бұрын

Haha... one day you too will...

You could have rented a stump grinder.

Just drill a hole in top to bottom and then at 45 degrees from the side to the bottom and connect the two holes. Carve out the hole on the side and put a 2 inch vacuum tube on it with vacuum vlowing instead of sucking (switch tube to other hole) Then turn on the vacuum and let it ride after you get fire started on top. Or use an electric corded blower, that is what i have and use bit most people dont have one. I cant believe this went on for that long. My 36 inch stump was gone in 4 hours with the blower on it full time.

In the '50s my neighbor had oak stumps bigger than that and removed them with a lot less effort. He would start a small fire at the base of the stump then place the exhaust of an old Electrolux vacuum on the fire to create a forge. Then he would sit back in an Adirondack chair with a beer and watch it. It took him many evenings but he removed more than one of those oak monsters??

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

It becomes like a hobby! Hahaha...

Omg he is so adorable he looks like a little Elton John

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

He is a great kid!

Why not cut the stump shorter? If you are having fun with the kids that's great!

Should have trimmed it enough to put a big metal drum over it to keep it all in 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

It was bigger than any steel drum unfortunately...

Good video

Your kids are special. The most important work a man will ever do is within the walls of his own home

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

I would have cut it a lot closer to the ground but I am impatient.

wrong tool.. Wrong application.. Oh, well. Fun is fun

If you cut it closer to the ground and drill some vertical holes down into it, fill with mineral oil or tiki torch oil and light it you will be done faster. At least from my experience from removing hickory, oak and pine trees.

Thank you i enjoyed myself

Oxygen is critical. I used compressor to blow the fire to speed up the process. Otherwise it takes forever.

So you burned 1/3 of the stump. 2/3 is under ground that's why it cost so much to remove

Those edges that stick up might fall into the fire if hit with a sledgehammer or the back half of an axe.

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I did a bit of that... problem was the wood was so wet it was hard to crack... its called a weeping pine for a reason...

Should of invited the bros over drank some beers and bbq late night

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

Haha. We did do that a few times! Even cooked on it twice.

Ripper way to save 7000 bucks, good work!

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

Thank you - and became a labour of love!

Should have made a plunge cut in the side & down the middle... that always works for me & it only takes 2 or 3 days to burn it to the ground

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

For sure... a bigger central hole and side cut would have made a big difference.

Sorry to mention it, but the wood that’s been turned to charcoal will never rot! 25 years from now, it’ll likely still be there? Your veggie roots will enjoy it though. The bio char found in the ground in Brazil, has been there hundreds of years! Good stuff though!

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

For sure... 5 months on now and I have a great tomato crop growing where the stump was... very fertile ground now!

Roasting marshmallows over a oil soaked stump. Umm sounds great

I'm wondering how effective a bag of coal would do?

well if you used a wood bit and a mason bit you could drill it easier

wondering if you got solid bricks and built a wall around the stump with a air hole at the bottom that a leaf blower can blow into via a steel pipe. And put fuel around the stump and burned it would it be quicker burn ?

@timgiovanelli2661

8 ай бұрын

Yes I think that could have been helpful. The biggest issue is this type of tree was very wet/sap filled. So it was a bit like trying to burn a wet sponge!

That is incredible of that tree you all say Mexican Pine.

Bigger holes for sides would have worked better but also watch how dry the wood is and see if it walks in the roots

@knighthauler2529

Жыл бұрын

With the house my dad built years ago, the roots burned underground for a week. The earth collapsed above them leaving a trail several feet long..

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ruben - this was incredibly wet timber, so no risk of it staying lit. Every time I'd drill into it, moisture/sap would pour out.

thats expensive, how long were they there? im an arborist, now i really gotta move to Australia! looks like a 2g tree for my area in Canada $750 for the stump.

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

yep, its out of control in Sydney. I had two other quotes... one for $12,000 and one for $15,000. And another guy quoted, then came around and said he couldn't be bothered... I think the main arborist was earning something like $600 an hour. Dangerous work though...

@NathanNostaw

Жыл бұрын

Yep prices here in Aus are crazy high. I was quoted the other day for a simple job of just taking the tree down with no chipping or stump grinding, $3500. A total of a couple of hours work for 2 guys. I'll be hiring a boom lift and doing myself for $600 including the purchase of 2 2nd hand chainsaws.

Quedo especial para sembrar unas matas de ayote y chayotes

If you would of had some big ile pine trees that you could get the sap out of let's say about 1-1/2 gallons drilled some holes in your stump and filled each up then soaked the rest of the stump with the pine oil set it on fire it would of done better than any ole Petro fuel which that just burns itself out real quick

Why not cut it in too a chair or bench ?

How are your neighbors dealing w/all the smoke, are they doin a slow burn too, or do you care.

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

yeah fortunately their homes are a fair distance from the stump that was burnt. We're on long 80m blocks.

What do you estimate the effect on the updraft (key feature of a rocket stove) the wood that was placed on top had?

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

hmm not sure... but certainly helped radiate some heat downwards too...

@hotironaircraftshop

Жыл бұрын

@@timgiovanelli2661 Perhaps I'm overstepping my expertise, but my guess is that the effect (blow torch) of the convection current that you get from an unimpeded flue would outweigh any radiative benefit.

At first I was surprised at how brave (or stupid) your decision was to burn it right next to a wooden fence and a huge pile of firewood nearby. And another surprise: you didn't burn everything. Especially after drinking wine while burning a stump for days. Looks like that good firewood is no use to you if you're just wasting it on burning stumps.

@dirtfarmer7472

Жыл бұрын

If you can’t say anything nice about it, just don’t say anything at all

@pisces363

Жыл бұрын

You don’t see the brick firewall between the stump and the fence?

@HorsleyLandy88

Жыл бұрын

It is hot in Australia, less need for firewood

marryed into money aye where,s to blokes and the beer

Maybe have fire at the base of the stump all the way around the stump this is what I do , stump is gone in 12hours this way

Lol looks like that concrete but worked out great . Why would you even attempt that?

@ThWind81

Жыл бұрын

You meant to say "concrete bit". I noticed that as well. He's using a hammer drill too. I just don't think he knows any better otherwise he wouldn't have attempted that.

I hope you have good insurance

Couldn't you have easily just used an ax or a sledgehammer to knock over the back pieces? Seems like they would've broken off pretty easily after all of the fires.

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

I tried... but timber was so wet, the sledgehammer just bounced off...

Could have started with a much shorter stump, I think.

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

No fun in that - haha!

Yeah my neighbours get a bit upset when I do this shit

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

Haha... yeah I seemed to get away with it. No houses within 40-50m helped! I also mainly burned when they were at work.

@hillhill9871

Жыл бұрын

2k to get my behemoth mango tree taken then 3days straight burning.

I guess you don't burn a stump in maybe a week?

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

I think this was 10 sessions... but it was not that low to the ground in starting...

Bro trying to save some $$$ dollars by burning a very hot fire next to a wooden fence. Can burn neighborhood trying to safe few $$$. Strange. If his insurance company gets the "hot wind" of this it will be something.

Nothing to see here.

Pine makes crappy firewood for fireplaces only good for outdoors.

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

Yeah... 5 months on it is finally dried out sufficiently to burn well... but only for outdoor fires...

failed

No respect for your neighbor.

You got robbed by the tree guys

@timgiovanelli2661

Жыл бұрын

Haha. Clearly you don’t live in Australia.