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"shazzbat" replied:

Incidentally, if you're ever in the position of wanting to remove a tree
like this again, don't cut it to a stump, cut it to about or just below
eye level (for safety's sake). Then you can use the tall stump for
leverage to get at the roots.

What excellent advice, I do wish you had given it last month, before I
chopped my small plum tree down to a very small stump.

Standard procedure.

We were asked by the warden of a Scout campsite to clear up after an
enthusiastic bungler made a clearing by cutting down a number of trees.

It wasn't possible to erect a tent of any size without including a stump
or two - not good for groundsheets...

I wouldn't recommend using our method unless you know what you're doing,
though: with an auger, drill right through the stump into the soil
beneath, place small charge of fuzed blasting powder at the bottom,
hammer into the hole a dowel with a channel for the fuze, attach dowel
to ten feet of strong cord, peg other end securely into the ground,
light fuze, retire to safe distance.

TUMP!

Slight thud under the feet, dowel rises and describes an arc, landing
twenty feet away, stump rises an inch, but all the roots are broken.

Block and tackle (or differential pulley if a big stump) and out it comes.

Easy-peasy

Forget the cord, and you stand some chance of shooting-down a passing
aircraft...

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Rusty
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