In one of the sites I looked at, a person talked about
securing chains to the stump with a railroad spike,
wrapping the chain around the stump, and then the
chains being pulled, causing the stump to be rotated
and the roots sheared or removed from the dirt so
that the stump was able to be removed.

indago wrote in message
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031114 1339 - Eric Scantlebury wrote:


"oldal4865" wrote in message
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Er. . .you know stumps tend to rot out if you wait long enough.

I was just going to suggest he look up someone here that has a termite
problem and offer to "relocate" the problem.



When the Erie Canal was built they used an interesting device to remove
tree
stumps. The program that I saw showed a computer generated image of the
device, which consisted of two wheels about 10' in diameter with an axle
between. A chain was wrapped around the axle, and down around the stump.
A
team of horses were attached to heavy ropes around the wheels and the
horses
were "encouraged" to pull on the wheels. The axle turned with the chain
pulling up on the stump. It was explained that this method was quite
effective and used extensively.