Tree stump removal instructions that make a very difficult, if not an impossible job, manageable.
I spent about twenty years re-landscaping homes. We used to re-landscape three homes a week, and we did all this work on evenings and Saturdays because I worked a complete time job. I've no idea just how many homes I re-landscaped over time, however the number is more than 500. Every one of those re-landscaping jobs had overgrown landscaping that would have to be removed before we could even start the actual landscaping job.
That meant that dozens and dozens of tree stumps and large stumps from overgrown shrubbery needed to be removed.
Of Tree Cutting Bovingdon says that you just back up Bubba's pickup truck, wrap a chain round the stump and drive away as fast as you can. I'll admit, I've done that. Does it work? Sort of. But it's also a great way to really tear up a pickup, completely destroy the lawn, and perhaps damage the house.
Therefore it's not this type of good idea. Particularly when you are doing focus on someone's house like I was doing.
So over the years we refined a technique for actually removing these stumps yourself. Tree stump removal by hand with the wrong tools is an impossible task. https://diigo.com/0whahy with the right tools is doable. I won't say it's easy work because it isn't. 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 process of digging round the tree stump with a good nursery digging spade, and using a landscape bar, often known as a spud bar to slice the roots as you encounter them while digging.
The secret would be to start out away from the stump. In the event that you start working too closely to the stump you will encounter large heavy roots that will be too difficult to deal with. So if you start out a little farther and just start digging a small trench around the stump with the spade, then on offer 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 out of your ground. Don't pry and bend up your tools. Utilize the tools to cut the roots. Prying won't get you anywhere as well as your tools will be ruined.
I've been teaching this technique on the Internet for several years now and folks write to me at all times and tell me how well it worked for them.