I took a break from inside of the house for a while. We did a "super good" clean on everything at the end of June for our house party, then it was the 4th, then her parents came down... I just haven't wanted to "dirty it up."
So I moved outside. I think I counted somewhere around 35 tree stumps in the back yard. Yes, 35. I'd say about 20 of them were 6" and smaller, another 10 were 6-12", and the last 4 or 5 were in that 12-24" area. Now, OF THOSE, MOST of them were either fairly rotten, or came out of the ground fairly easy. I can think of about 8 that took me 2-3 hours of screwing around to get them at least cut down a few inches below ground level.
So you may be thinking, why not hire someone or rent a stump cutter? Simple, I already had the tools and I have more time than money.
1. Like a mother f'in rock baby! I got out about 10 of the smaller ones this way
2. The fence was a few inches above the ground here and my stupid dog kept trying to dig out, so I put rocks around the border and the wife wanted a "full sun" planting area. Came up with this. I think it's pretty cool.
3. The dirt from the mulch beds (see following pics). I think this was load number 7 or 8? It worked out great because I used the dirt to fill in the stump holes!
4. The stump pile. It's actually bigger than it looks in the pic.
5. I had a bunch of small logs to cut up and some old rotten fencing. It was kinda fun
