Tree stump removal instructions that make a very difficult, if not an impossible job, manageable.
I spent about 20 years re-landscaping homes. Tree Surgeons Potters Bar used to re-landscape three homes weekly, and we did all of this work on evenings and Saturdays because I worked a full time job. I've no idea just how many homes I re-landscaped over time, but the number is more than 500. Every one of those re-landscaping jobs had overgrown landscaping that needed to be removed before we're able to even start the actual landscaping job.
That meant that tons of tree stumps and large stumps from overgrown shrubbery needed to be removed.
Needless to say county wisdom says that you just back up Bubba's pickup, wrap a chain round the stump and drive away as fast as you possbly can. I'll admit, I've done that. Does it work? Type of. But it's also a great way to really tear up a pickup, completely destroy the lawn, and possibly damage the house.
Therefore it's not this type of good idea. Especially when you are doing work on someone's house like I was doing.
So over time we refined a method for actually removing these stumps yourself. Tree stump removal by hand with the wrong tools can be an impossible task. Tree stump removal with the proper tools is doable. I won't say it's easy work because it's not. But if you use the proper tools and the right techniques you don't have to strain your back and ruin your tools. It's more of a methodical procedure for digging round the tree stump with an excellent nursery digging spade, and utilizing a landscape bar, also called a spud bar to slice the roots as you encounter them while digging.
Tree Surgeons Stevenage is to start out from the stump. In the event that you begin working too closely to the stump you will come across large heavy roots which will be too difficult to cope with. So if you begin just a little farther and just start digging a little trench around the stump with the spade, then going around in the trench you merely dug with the spud bar to slice the roots that the spade won't cut, then more spade work, then more landscape bar work, that tree stump should come from the ground. Don't pry and bend up your tools. Utilize the tools to cut the roots. Prying won't get you anywhere and your tools will undoubtedly be ruined.
I've been teaching this technique on the Internet for several years now and folks write to me all the time and tell me how well it worked for them.