"John McMillan" wrote in message
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In article , "alan
thwaites" wrote:

"stumpy66" skrev i en meddelelse
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To kill a stump it is easy, apply any poison, ammonium sulpamate is the

should read "ammonium sulphamate"

prefered method..usually you peel back the bark around the stump (or
the cork cambrium) and apply poison.....the other way is just prune any
growth back, the tree will run out of energy in the long term and
die....the best way of getting rid of it is, as has been as suggested
grinding it out...this is a good site for info on stump
grinders...www.stumpgrinding.eu.com


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stumpy66

A.T. (resident in Denmark) wrote.- A "fun" method of removing stumps is
to
drill vertical holes in said stump,fill with sodium chlorate, cover to
keep
dry,wait a month and then light a small fire on the top of the stump
which
has become highly inflammable and will burn right away. I was looking
forward to trying this but found that sodium chlorate,once used as weed
killer is no longer available in this country as it may be used to make
bombs ! Maybe it is still sold in U.K.

Sodium Chlorate is a powerful oxidising agent and as such is potentially
dangerous. It is still available as a weedkiller in the UK but the
material sold has sodium chloride and maybe other things added in an
attempt to reduce the inflammibility of any mixture. So maybe the fun
method won't be
much fun after all.
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1. If you acquire a dose of Sodium Chlorate take great care to protect
yourself and slowly and carefully flush surplus it down the toilet.
2. One of the old methods , - ( and I have used it on two occasions), - is
to drill a small number of one-inch holes into the top of the sawn-off
butt, with a carpenter's hand-drill, ( the bigger type with a round wooden
handle for the left hand at the top and half-way down the shaft is a
right-hand handle to turn the chuck and drill bit.)
Carefully, - using rubber gloves,- fill the holes to near their tops with
H2S04, -
(Sulphuric Acid). Dispose of surplus H2S04 immediately if such has been
used, and keep children away from the stumps.. Select from among your
wooden
cast-off bits of wood planks, a piece, (saw it off), and nail it firmly
over
the top of the stump securely so that the kids can't get at it or the
holes.. Be sure about this because the little b.....s'll be there poking
their grubby little fingers at it, despite stern warnings.
Last year my Son-in-law and I dug up four big tree stumps which had stood
on the lawn,
lopped, for four years.
Had they been fresh we would have failed, in spite of the fact that none had
tap roots. But they had big side roots and they were fairly deepish. There
were good
signs of rotting, but they were in unworked land and it took us five days
and much sweat and labour to dig and hack them out. It was hard work and
sheer hard grafting for me.
This was at Rainham Kent and the Council binmen would not collect them so we
had to hire a smallish lorry to take them to the tip.
Doug.
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