Keith Hampson wrote:
The stump which is a horse chestnut was chopped down about 2 month
ago, it
is about 15 inch in diameter, if I dig round it how deep will I heed
to go
before I reached the roots, and would I need a axe or a chainsaw, and
could
I lift
it?

Could I burn it out by using charcoal or coal, petrol any thing like
that

or use http://www.daxproducts.co.uk/rootout.html

if you are sure it is dead by now, and if it is in shade, buy 100-300
mushroom plugs from www.fungi.com. They will do the trick, although
slowly, and give you about ten years of mushrooms.