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*TUMP!*

Stump would twitch, smoke would ooze out all round it, then we'd drag it
out with a block and tackle. Somewhere between two drams and ten drams
usually did the job.


LOL! I've heard of people using this technique, but they never mentioned
standing atop the stump. I'd pay to see that.

The trick is to use just enough to break the roots, but not to launch it
au Blaster Bates.

I learnt how to do it from and old slate blaster, and applied it to a
lot of stumps in clearings on a new Scout campsite.

Some overenthusiastic and ignorant scouter had felled a lot of trees to
make clearings for camping in - leaving the stumps, thus preventing said
camping because there was nowhere a tent could be pitched.

Our lot (we later became a tree-felling partnership) would have got a
rope up the tree, dug round it and cut most of the roots, then pulled it
over, taking out the stump while still attached.

Still, it gave me scope for devilment - the campsite was bounded on two
sides by housing, and no-one ever knew. (Especially the Scout Insurance
company!)

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Rusty
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