Almost on any plot of land there are trees. Sooner or later the time comes when they stop harvesting and must be recycled. It's not at all difficult to cut the trunk, but not everyone knows how to quickly uproot the stump without much effort and spend a lot of effort in an unsuccessful struggle.
There are various techniques for uprooting the stump without effort, and each of them has its advantages, as it is selected individually, depending on the location of the stump itself on the site. Let's find out more about these methods.
The use of heavy equipment
As experience shows, quickly to uproot the stump, without exerting any effort it is possible only using mechanical assistants. It should be noted at once that this method is the most expensive, because the work hours of such equipment are very expensive. But the goal will be justified if there is a huge large diameter stump on the site that you can not handle manually.
As a rule, preliminarily stump the stump along the circumference, to pass under its roots a steel cable. After it is securely fastened to the caterpillar tractor, applying a small effort pulls the stump out of the ground along with the thick branches of the roots. If you cut the tree high, you can simply wrap the tall stump without doing earthwork.
In addition to the tractor, a bulldozer or excavator can be used, which the bucket can pick up the stump in the root area and completely uproot it in five minutes.
But, thus, stumps can be eradicated on the site where it is possible to turn around this large-sized machinery, but on already cultivated areas, it is often impossible. Therefore, heavy artillery is used at the planning stage of the site, when there are still no fences and perennial plantings in the garden and vegetable garden.
Quite a different matter - a small milling cutter or stump, which has dimensions no larger than lawn mowers . With the help of such hand-held equipment, the stump and the adjacent roots are easily ground to sawdust to a depth of up to 30 centimeters.
Manual method
Waving a sledgehammer and wielding a crowbar is a business that not everyone can do. But you can cheat a little if you use a hand-winch as a supplement. It is installed near the stump, the height of which must be at least one meter, for better grip. Roots will need to be bare to put a wooden wedge under them from the side opposite the winch. Not making great efforts, the stump for a couple of hours of work can be pulled from a violent place and taken for refining the liberated piece of land.
Chemical method of stump cutting
When chemistry began to be actively applied in agriculture, people learned how best to uproot the stumps without physically bothering at all. Although, it should be noted that this can not be expected for a speedy result. But if there is a year or two left in reserve, then it is better to use this simple variant of rooting.
In the stump it is necessary to drill as many deep holes as possible with a diameter of about 10 mm. It is desirable to do this in the autumn, so that during the winter, the chemical processes can naturally effect the necessary effect on the tissues of the tree. In these holes should be covered with urea.
Thus, until next autumn, the wood will be completely destroyed and only a pile of trash remains on the stump site. A similar action is possessed by salt, which also destroys the stump, but it can only be used where building is planned, since excess salt in the soil leads to a sharp decrease in the fertility of the land.
But ammonium nitrate , which is also buried in drilled holes, has a slightly different effect. It is absorbed by the moisture in the tissues of the tree, making them more flammable. Having imbibed the stump with such a solution, it is possible to burn it very quickly, having obtained an excellent fertile plot.
Those who do not know how to properly uproot the stump on their own, you can advise you to apply to a specialized service that deals with the cutting of trees and stubbing stumps. These organizations have specialized equipment and extensive experience, so that they can easily get rid of the problem from such an issue as the old stump.