I dont even have a stump to remove. I dont have a yard. Why am i here..

Sooo...basically drill a bunch of holes, fill with veg oil then burn a whole bag of charcoal on it for 3 days....my friend, this is GENIUS! Now, if only I knew a way to get rid of a burnt stump that smells like veg oil.

Nearing 30 million views watching a 3 part series documenting a 3 month stump burning! You have restored my faith in mankind! There is hope for our species yet! Thanks!

I like the wholesome attitude. Can be applied to anything in life . "It can be fun,it's all in the matter of the attitude."

I have done about the same thing but I put honey in the holes and the stump got full of bugs going after the honey and then the big red headed wood peckers went after the bugs they took the stump out. I would get me a cup of coffee in the morning set on the front porch and watch them work

If you asked this guy how to fix or do anything, I'm 95 percent sure vegetable oil will be involved

I tried this about 15 years ago. Slow cooked it, I thought I was brilliant. After a day I could tell the roots below we’re still going. Later that afternoon I had the entire Fire Department at my front door, got a stern talking to about underground gas pockets and gas lines. But it did work :)

This guy is awesome ..he .made my day. All the negative "know better" comments... You guys need to smile more...this guy enjoys life

I love this dude, just a man trying to have fun with life KEEP IT UP MAN!!

"Its all a matter of additude" is a great thing to keep in mind. Apply it daily to a million different situations. Thanks Marsh Rat!

thank you so much. i have been looking for weeks on how to remove my yard (its a giant stump, just to be clear). this enormously aided me in my adventure of life. one quick question though... what kind of pen do you recommend to mark the stump? thank you and god bless your kind soul.

What an incredible artist and a well made video that lets you share the adventure. Thank you Lviv

Thank you for taking the time to make a video! Ignore the negative comments.

I find it so hard to believe that 10 million people needed to know how to do this. Yet, here I am, one of the 10 million.

Years back I drilled holes and spread syrup into the holes in the fall. The syrup sped up the rot and the bugs loved it and ate the stump faster. It was gone the next summer. Any maple or cheap sugary syrup works.

No drilling; no oil; just beer! A neighbor removed oak stumps 4 times that size. He built a small fire at the base and placed an old vacuum's exhaust directly on that creating a forge. It took weeks but sitting there with a beer made the time enjoyable.

This is the best ad for hiring a stumper that I’ve ever seen.

Thought you were going to put a stick of Dynomite in there when I saw you pull out the drill. Now that would be fun!

What if we don’t have a stump and most of them are fairly dried out except in the center?

Have to say I found the background sounds so relaxing! I could just sit in your garden and fall asleep lol!

The most entertaining part of this video were the splendid numerous comments! Kept me in stitches 😂

If I ever see a tree stump that needs moving, I now know. Thanks KZfaq recommendations!

Thank you so very much Excellent video... your a good man to pass down the old ways to the younger people... Way to many of the old ways have been lost

Marsh rat you wpyld be good to buy the 20v adaptwr for your 18v drill. It sure makes those older dewalt drills run better with the new 20v max batteries.

With a stump that dry I would have poured kerosene/charcoal lighter fluid all over the top and let it soak in good and then lighted it. Generally the heat from the dry wood burning will dry out the moist wood and there is a good chance that the fire will continue to smolder and burn a good ways into the ground as it follows the roots. Stump gone and roots probably gone as well after a few days.

Do I have a stump to remove? No. Am I about binge this entire series? You're damn straight.

I absolutely love this guy he’s the best He seems so sweet and kind

so add the oil and in a month the stump will disappear?

Nice video. Anybody else hear that Titmouse singing in the background? Lovely.

Drill one hole and put a long Iron pole in it, maybe within 20 years lighting will hit it.

I wonder if you could fill the holes with termites, that an organic way as well

This is actually entertainment to watch hehe. Thanks 🙏

I had some stumps like Marsh Rat, but found that after drilling the holes with an electric drill which works better, I filled the holes with saltpeter, or potassium nitrate which I had leftover from an old recipe from making Polish sausage. After 6 months to a year, I took my sledgehammer and pulverized the stumps, and filled the area with dirt & sod I got from another part of my yard,. Takes a little time, but you get some satisfaction and exercise from knocking the stumps apart with almost no cost.

why am i watching this? i don’t even have a stump

So you get just two of three holes on a battery charge? That will use up a lot of time.

This is divine providence. I live in Illinois, and I had to recently cut down 10 dead ashes in my yard, got everything limbed, bucked and split, but I was left with these huge stumps. Thank you sir.

For those interested in just killing a stump (making sure the little sprouts stop growing from it) use plain old ordinary table salt. Pour a generous portion of salt over the top of the stump and repeat once after it disappears due to rain or wind. That will make the stump dead.

I tried this and it works

I like this guy lol I think I'm gonna do this for the 2 stumps in my yard.

I watched this video part 1 & part 2 video four times, for some reason. Congratulations on over 40k subscribers, and success!

Did something similar about 20 years back on a buddies farm but instead of using vegetable oil to fill holes we drilled we filled them with black powder. once we had holes filled with powder when got a piece of round dowel that fit tight in holes,cut them to about 1" to 2" then drilled a hole through the dowel to install some cannon fuse. once all holes in stump were plugged with dowel and fused we lite it, jumped on our quads and rode about 100yrds away and about 20sec later that stump was gone and nicely mulched up although it was scattered about a good 30yrds from where stump was. lmfao

I'm from Mississippi, this video gets a like, for his voice alone! :)

Spent a few weeks in OH several years back, all up in the NW near Bryan in Williams Co.

Just got to say, I love your accent

why am i watching this when I don't even have a backyard

Wait until winter then pour those holes full of water and let the ice do the work.

OK, you got me hooked. haha. That was a fun video. Next Part 2.

Acquire an inner tub from an old washing machine, start a small fire on the stump, put the tub over the stump, upside down. That will leave a 4 inch hole on top to drip whatever accelerate you care to use. A 5 gal bucket with a copper line installed close to the bottom, and value to adjust flow, sitting on a table of some kind. You want a steady drip, not a constant flow, and the tubing should go down inside the tub a few inches so the wind, if there is any, won't blow the oil off target. The tub will hold in heat, keep out the rain and wind, and allow you to burn without worry of the fire getting out of control. Will burn a dry stump to ground level in a couple of days, and will burn out the whole tap root if you don't mind filling a 2 foot deep hole.

We used the logs from the tree and built a big old fire on top of that there stump 2 nights later, nuffin left but ash with no sign of the pesky stump. Happy days y'all.

23 million views and the video literally shows nothing about stump removal! LOL I hope this guy is laughing all the way to the bank. He could have just said " The best way to remove a stump is to wait 20 years until it rots away". Priceless.

Thanks for sharing and we'll give it a try. From here in Idaho we owe you a beer!

Places like Home Depot sell a product called "Stump Remover" although it is actually just potassium nitrate. It rots the stump to the point where it crumbles in about one month and then it can be easily removed with pretty much any metal tool.

I saw 'part 1' and changed my mind. I don't want to spend all night on stump removal. Three hours from now it may be part 16.

Next time I get a couple weeks off, I'll give it a try.

This was actually a good video, great work!

that looks like a bunch of fun right there, I'm fixin to drill me a stump

Got rid of one just like that. Skilsaw and an axe. Made multiple cuts boths ways over face of stump, about 1/4" apart. Knock the pieces off, and cut it again. Less than an hour, I had it below ground level.

12million views. Maybe removing tree stumps is the key to success on youtube 🤔

Good tips, thank you. Will try it on my stumps!

One of my best winters was spent each evening sitting round a series of burning tree stumps in cane chairs with our beer sitting in the snow behind us. By spring the paddock was clear of stumps and there were a lot less tiger snakes around the farm.

I am from SW Ohio. I think he has his tongue firmly in cheek (he's having fun with us). I get the humor...

12 million views on an average joe removing a stump. Hell yeah, my kind of content.

One of my father's friends, who was a chemist, used saltpeter solution to soak into the stump - which is an oxidiser used in gunpowder. The stump is the fuel, the oxidiser encouraged it to burn. Apparently worked fine although sadly I didn't get to see the fire.

We had a couple big stumps like that and we just used them for our Burn-pile...a place we burned all our cardboard, paper trash, fallen branches, trimmed branches, unwanted furniture, etc. Couple years later we moved the Burn-pile to another stump. But, we got a few stumps too close to the house to use this Burn-pile method so gotta do something different. We obviously don't live in California where you can't burn nothing without getting in trouble. (I lived there for 60 years.)

"8 quadrants" Love it!

Sorry... my brain locked up when he talked about dividing the stump into "eight quadrants". Did anything important happen after that?

As well as drilling holes, why not split the stump with an axe to give more area for the oil to penetrate and be absorbed into the stump?

I got a question. If you took olive oil and saffron oil and then put it in the hole and it was not a good holes would it likely have been a great way to get the oil and hole in the middle one on it?

"What I like to do is.......mark it off in 8 quadrants." Neat trick if you can do it.

For the same amount of drilling you could turn the stump into a three burner rocket stove. No wasted oil, and you could cook at least a dozen meals.

I’ve always heard that these trees do not live that long. We just got through chopping down to Arizona ash tree that froze during our deep freeze we had here in the south. My stump is much larger than that and I know that tree was planted about 40 years ago.

This is great, I don’t have any stumps to get rid of but this guy is cool

KZfaq's algorithm is so fkn weird, why is this in my recommended

My recommendations have been wild lately

I liked your video and your way of talking. Thank you very much.

Ok... You got me, I'm going over to watch part 2 👍

Best video I have ever watched

That can easily create an underground fire and if you live near a forest like me could burn down the whole thing. For people that don't have fire open field and fire as an option: Make use of colder climate!! During the days/nights when things reach negative degrees pour water into the holes. That will make the water freeze, expand and destroy the wood from the inside. It will also rot the wood so you will be able to remove the stump in pieces with an axe afterwords. Can be a slower process since it takes a while but it's the best I could come up with...

I like his accent. Any gentleman who can handle a hand drill has my respect.

When he said it will take a while, I wasn't expecting it to be a whole month!

So to remove a stump left behind after cutting down a tree killed by an Ash Borer, one must _become_ an ash borer....

I watch these while taking a dump!

We used to put a metal screen over with legs a burn that bad boy not only we have a little campfire to be yet but it also Cooks our food you sure are smart old man I got respect for you

I have it marked out in eight quadrants.....right

Dynamite also works , and its quicker

If you dont mind waiting a few years. I hammered 6 copper pennies into a 30 year old hard a rock stump. In 2 years it rotted away. I even got the pennies back.

Hello I’m sorry I hope your day went good today I hope you had a good day and thanks for your help

I hope you were able to get some usable timber out of that tree. As soon as you started pouring the oil on it, I was loving the colour.

“Quadrant” - That word doesn’t mean what you think it means.

1:05 "what I like to do is just try to mark it off into quadrants" *just running a pencil across the stump at seemingly random* "now it dont gotta be exact."

I soaked in lighter fluid a stump with crown rot. It burned the rotted section straight down about 20”, so I decided to cover food in foil and cook a meal in my new underground Keebler oven. A neighbor saw what I was doing and cooked a meal in the stump oven, too. I let it smolder for three days and extinguished it lest it reach a gas line or some other dangerous whatnot.

So how do you remove it?

Why do I even click on these videos?

It ain't much but it's honest work.

20sec in and one can already tell there are going to be some sort of explosives involved! *pushes play w/ excitement* 😜

I have done that, but the bugs do the rest in making it rotten enough to knock apart! Takes abt a yr or 2.

When he was done drilling the holes i actually JUST stopped myself from blowing at my monitor to blow the sawdust away! Force of habit i guess :p

Can you have 8 quadrants, or should it be “octants” rather ? Thanks marshrat ❤

Ash is pretty hard to dig up so you gotta start digging way back from the stump. Go to a hardware store and pick up one of those big red jacks for $70 bucks (everyone who owns a home needs one). Dig under a root with a shovel so that you can get your jack under it. You may have to use a big chain with your jack. Start jacking the root up until it comes free, then dig under another root & jack it up. Keep doing this to all the major roots until the main stump is free. Don't worry about leaving the rest of the roots in the ground, they will eventually rot away. Another way to grub a stump is with a horse. Go out and buy a horse and harness for plus or minus $2500 bucks. Use a shovel to dig under a main root so that you can wrap a chain around it. Hook the other end of the chain to your horse and get the horse to pull the root out. Keep doing this until you pull out all the main roots and free the stump. Always wear safety equipment, always be careful, & always know what you're doing.