We have had an excavator on site for the past couple of days and it seemed like a great opportunity to remove a tree stump in the top field. It has been a nuisance when mowing the top field, particularly when the grass is long (and I mean long – sort of knee-length!) as you can’t see the damn thing. Hitting it with the mower, or the tractor, isn’t fun.
A 2.5 tonne excavator won’t pull the stump out of the ground in one go, but what it will allow you to do is to dig around it. You can then dig out the roots as you go and eventually the stump will give up. It can be a bit unnerving as the roots do wrestle a bit with the excavator. Eventually though, the excavator wins.
The trick is to dig around the stump and eventually it will come free
This stump has been a real pain when mowing the top field
It isn’t pretty, but the tree stump has now been removed