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Finally got a stubborn willow stump out after it sat for a year
Tried everything on this thing, even rented a big grinder. What finally worked was drilling a ring of deep holes around the perimeter and filling them with stump remover granules, then just letting it sit for a month. The wood turned to mush and I pulled it apart with a pickaxe in an afternoon. Anyone have a better chemical they swear by for really old, hard wood?
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drew9061mo ago
Ever see those videos where people use salt to kill a stump? I read that plain rock salt dissolved in water and poured over a drilled out stump can work over a long winter. It's cheap but man, it takes forever and might mess with your soil. Your method with the granules sounds way faster for getting it done.
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paulw631d ago
People go looking for these cheap, one ingredient fixes for everything from stumps to stained grout and it ends up taking three times as long. My neighbor spent a whole summer salting a maple stump and by fall the ground around it looked dead and nothing would grow there. Then he had to bring in topsoil anyway. It's like people want the cheapest option so bad they forget time is money too, especially when you end up having to redo the whole job a different way later.
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