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Finally got a stubborn old oak stump out with a trick my grandpa mentioned
Honestly, I had this huge stump from a storm-felled oak in a client's yard in Springfield, and the grinder just wasn't cutting it. Tbh, I remembered my grandpa saying to drill a bunch of deep holes and fill them with water to rot it faster. I drilled about twenty holes with a 1-inch bit and kept them full for almost six months. When I went back last week, the wood was so punky the grinder ate through it in under an hour. Has anyone else tried this on a different type of tree, like pine or maple?
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hannahcraig10d ago
That water trick is legit for real. My uncle did the same thing with a nasty maple stump in his backyard, just soaked it over a wet winter. Came apart like wet cardboard when he finally went at it.
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brooke_taylor4410d ago
So how long did he wait? A whole wet winter sounds like forever. I'd get impatient too.
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lol "came apart like wet cardboard" is the perfect way to put it, hannahcraig. I tried the water trick on a pine stump and got way too eager, tried to grind it after like a month. Let's just say it did not turn into cardboard, more like a weird, soggy brick that just laughed at my machine. Guess I should've been more patient like your uncle.
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