Great idea. Plan on doing the same with some stumps, but planting ferns.

My wife did that with a stump from when we first bought our property. It rotted well below the ground and the flowers are still there.

Seen a tree growing out the one a neighbor cut down, three new trunks plus the stump below, rather neat looking.

There was a big hickory stump in our yard the tree had died from heart rot so we scraped the hollow out filled it full of good soil and planted a Red Oak sapling in it that was over 60 years ago and that tree is about 3 feet across at the butt and 65-70 feet tall my family doesn't own the house anymore but I still see that old tree and boy is it a great shade tree during the summer

Love the idea of flowers growing out of an old tree. Wonderful idea 👍

It's all I ever wanted 🔥🔥🔥

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Hair spray

@@congerthomas1812 hairspray did not work near as well so we learn the hard way that it's gasoline and only gasoline that works!

@@c.joelummus8880 no you didn't

I have had similar results when trying to burn from outside!

Me too!

@@IndependenceIron Working on drilling dozens of holes, from the top and sides. Even dug the soil away from it and more holes. Will be using vegetable, to provide a fuel. I cut the bottom out of an old 55 gallon steel drum, to provide a stack over the stump, that will create a draft to burn faster and hopefully completely. Lots of work here!

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Especially with pine. A friend burned a stump quite carefully only to have to call the fire department to put out a fire 30 feet away from the roots burning!

Happened in my Town in PA someone was burning and the coal veins running through our town has been burning for almost 60+ years. Crazy

This is the comment I was looking for, it can smolder for years.

how does it have oxygen in the ground? i guess if it's very dry

Would it help if you water the surrounding ground of the stump?

Thats what he gets for ruining peoples fun.

Friend of mine in Kansas Had that happen. Fire department tried to put this fire out and he stood them off at gunpoint.

@@howtogetoutofbabylon8978 LOL

Rip firemen and the fire

Serve them right for doing their job? Bet you'd be crying for the fireman if your house was on fire though wouldn't you?

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This greatly depends on the climate/weather in you area. I for example live in a pretty wet climate where the soil gets really soggy over winter so the roots would never dry out (there might be a danger zone at the end of summer but thats it). If the roots can dry out though, the danger levels go through the roof!

Great Advise Ron !! Thank you !!!

Yea, that didn't happen.

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I would do that most times i went out to do my hourly checks. The leaf blower is so strong it ejects embers pretty far even at idle so i didn't want to leave it idle unattended blowing out embers next to my garage. Would like a blower that has less flow that i could leave on constantly if not so close to structures.

@@IndependenceIron Shop vac (exhaust)?

@@IndependenceIron thrift store hair dryer

@@IndependenceIron just get a brick to prop up the end of the blower and keep it just the right distance away, or you could just use a metal tube and hairdryer like I have.

That'd create a heat sync and energy would be lost. I'm thinking old wives tale but my take might be wrong.

@@MangaCarta i don't think so, heat sync would need a good steady air flow applied and fins to pull heat away from the stump. source: me, computer nerd.

@@davidscott9257 A lot of surface area exposed to wind is what I'm getting at lol.

Pretty sure a magnesium wheel would burn that stump right quick. Might be a bit hard to control though.

I'd be careful to keep in mind to make sure it's not painted, rje fumes from some burning paints are super toxic.

The name matches the face

I’ve never heard of a smokeless zone, guessing they have to do with local UK laws I’m assuming?

Dynamite is actually easier still. Not so good near structures.

It's not the easiest way considering the amount of time taken and huge risk to burn the property. The brute force may not work for the guy, as axes for the kind of risk-loving folks could end up badly. An electric accumulator drill and a hand saw to saw over the holes did the job for me quite well.

That is a good idea. I have a 20ton bottle jack i may try it with on the next one. Even if i can't dig it out the splits would help it burn more completely.

I bet his wife loves the mess he's making out there.

We have alot of farm ground around us to where some places you can see as far as the eye can see and its nothing but empty fields after harvest. But we also have alot of bugs(ash borers) and similar killing trees near us. This one was dying before we cut it.

@@IndependenceIronWatching ash borers the last decade or so has been quite sad. Growing up with an ash in my backyard, got to watch it firsthand sweep throught the neighborhood & kill our tree, my school's trees, neighborhoods trees, one by one. In alot of instances they would just kill em off one after another in a row as they slowly migrated. Think I was in middle or high school at the time.

@@MarkTrades__ I cut this tree a few years back, but since then i have cut many more Ash trees that the borers have killed and it seems that as the Ash trees have dwindled they are moving into maples. Lots of dead silver maples in my area now.

Haha just doing my part to keep the earth on its orbital track!!

I used to find the half rotted spongy stumps, you can light one little spark on them, and they burn completely.

Wow

@@BelkoTVMexicanJoker Wow, what?

I will occasionally drill some holes in a stump and pour in some used oil. I did that on the edges of this stump twice were the main roots went out. I helped but still couldn't burn it fully out. Too much water left in the roots.

that is the stupidest thing ive ever heard. if you were sitting in a zone where its so hot there is a "lensing effect" going on, youre already dead. more likely you were just experiencing delusions from your lack of brain cells.

You should have stood in that same spot and showed everyone Uranus.

​@@moos5221and then blamed it's extra large size on some lensing bullshit

Plenty of fire enthusiasts in 2020

Let him BBQ or grill and make a picnic out of it.

its amazing how much harder they suck with a few foot of flue pipe stuck on top...

If you resin stabilised the burnt out shell it could possibly look quite cool. Might be worth a go on a smaller log tho 😆

Sure but you dig it up

Others have said the roots continue to burn for days.

@peterdarr7267 yes they can smoulder too because they are damp, depending on how wet the soil is.

The problem with getting vents cut below ground level is the bottom of the stump often has rocks etc included in it, you can't bore in without wrecking your saw chain.

Fire is one thing, explosives are another lol. Little too close to the house for that!

I don't understand why people have to lie on the internet.

Sounds like a good way to remove invasive Paulownia or sawtooth oak trees

probably from the dozens of other stump burning videos on youtube.

You just needed my dad's old excavator. 128,000 lbs, 4 cu/yd bucket.

stump burning has been a thing since before the civil war. Even the Amish out here in rural Missouri use it.

Well...no s*** sherlock.

@@MathWithMozart oh a smartass

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PUTING A BARREL OVER THEM WITH A AIR INTAKE HOLE AND MABE A CHIMMNEY PIPE ON IT WILL HELP GET IT HOT

I like this idea best yeah probably should’ve cut off the top of that stump first.. then, so much would not have to burn ..

Those were my thoughts too. A crazy guy makes a big fire 2 meters from a wooden house and blows the wind in the direction of the house.

@@michaelhorn110 Next time maybe he should use dynamite! LOL

You people havent done much .

Where did the aluminum come from ?

I'm wondering the same thing about the aluminum. Did it burn around something under the tree that you didn't know was there? Or did it grow around something you couldn't get out?

Beer consumed during 6 weeks of burning

@@michaelterry9347 🤣 I love that! Good one!

Oh yes there are many different kind of stump grinder . Just google stump grinder used in USA. He could cut the stump as low as possible and then use a Stump grinder . But to satisfy the inner kid . Burning stump and watching fire is more fun 🤣

@@sofjanmustopoh7232 Understand but wheres the beer?

The ground level stump is always semi wet . Very hard to maintain hot fire . Burning the whole stump get the bottom stump HOT n dry . Burning stump is always a long process. But if you enjoy fire 🔥 . It is very enjoyable

I agree. I don't mean to be a downer, but this just seems like a lot of extra work, and he ended up pretty much destroying the yard anyway

If you have a ground-level stump, there's no way to put a draft hole so the fire can breathe. If you try to dig one the side of the ground-level stump to put a port / draft hole, you're going to have roots in your way. The way he did it is the only way he could have done it. Granted, he could have shortened the stump, but it would have burned faster, causing plenty of ashes, and the ashes would have smothered the bottom from burning - which means only the sides would burn, leaving him with a ground-level stump! All he would have done was burn the above ground portion - if he shortened it. I would have done like you said, and cut the stump at ground-level. Not for the purpose of burning the rest, but for the purpose of selling the big chunk of Hard Maple to a wood worker! If you watch any woodworking channels, you'll find out that cookie slabs (a slice of the trunk) of hardwoods like Maple and Walnut can sell for $500 to $1500 each! I would have cut it at ground-level and then sold the cut-off. Then I would have gotten my 1" x 18" auger bit, and drilled about 50 holes as deep as I could into the ground-level stump, poured gas and lit it. It would keep going out because of underground moisture and no draft. But I'd keep lighting it until I won! LOL Have a great day!

I always dig as much as I can around it and take my 361 saw it off. Kick dirt over it and I'm done. I'm 50 and lazy though. Lol

I have had poor results trying to burn one from the outside as mentioned, and digging a trench next to a stump with roots that large, is difficult even with a small excavator.