Any tips on getting rid of a stump. Cut the tree down 5 years ago. And drilled a bunch of 1" holes in it and dumped salt on it. I drilled some more holes in it today. Part of me wants to try and split it with a wedge. And Part of me wants to burn it out.
I build a bonfire that completely covers it. After keeping it stoked for a few days (does use a lot of wood) the stump turns into an ember that keeps going down as long as the fire is maintained.
Sweet wife was just relating to me her ongoing war with tomato hornworms.
My experience is chickens will not eat them, must have a vile taste.
Has anyone ever tried them as fish bait?
This Friday, my brother-in-law called me up last minute to go do a quick salmon fishing run on Lake MI. We usually go a few times a year. This year we hardly went. Anyways, got to the launch on an in-land lake connecting the big lake and fired it up. It was running, but missing a bit. We head out a ways anyway full throttle to see if it would burn up whatever, or clean up. Nope, got 4 miles accross the inland lake and she pukes right as we approach the channel to big water. No go from there. Fire up the kicker, but she only runs on choke, and idle, pukes on load. Crap, likely bad gas (water) as they both had that in common. We finally get the kicker in gear, but only at idle. So, were now 4 miles away and going 1mp. This is going to be a long evening unless we flag someone to tow us. There were a lot of boats out, so no imminent danger. Thankfully we didn't make it out to big water being we were going to 150-200', which is 10+ miles out. Then, finally the kicker cleaned out and got up to full throttle under load and to 5mph. Made it back much quicker. I figure the kicker was taking clean gas being we were no longer sloshing the tank.
He siphoned out the old gas, put new in, and had it running on muffs. Told the wifey to leave it alone as he went to get some seafoam. Wifey told the youngest to check on the motor. He saw the water foaming...and thought he should shut the water off. Poof went the motor as it overheated. Crappy 90h 4stroke Merc.
I use a 30 or 55 gallon metal barrel- ie burn barrel. Cut both ends out of it and then cut “breathe “ holes at the bottom(3). So when im feeding the sticks from said tree into the barrel it creates a vortex of fire. This is after I drill and soak that two bit ******* peckerwood in used oil and diesel fuel multiple times. Bigger holes are your friend-as are multiple burns/ bonfires
Sweet wife was just relating to me her ongoing war with tomato hornworms.
My experience is chickens will not eat them, must have a vile taste.
Has anyone ever tried them as fish bait?
Super nice sunrise this morning, love the temps. and lack of humidity.
Got all the deck boards on the dock yesterday, glad to have that chore finished, will have to wear Band-Aids on my elbows for a week or ten days. Rubbed them raw and I bleed so easy anymore.
I tried using tomato worms for bait a couple times and didn't do well with them, could have been nothing would have done well on the days I tried them though.
We have been clearing out a spot in one of our woods lots for the past couple years for a cabin spot. After cutting the tree down to the stump I treat it with Tordon RTU to prevent resprouting. I wait till the next year then dig around it as deep as I can and stack dry firewood around it. I too use a 55 gal barrel but cut in half length wise from top to bottom with top and bottom removed. Placing the half barrel over the fire seems to create a draw like in a wood stove pulling the fire over the stump. Works pretty well for us.
Ended up with my ankles covered in chiggar bites when helping my brother Friday so sleep has been less than good the last couple of nights. Put up 2 new stands on my property yesterday. Great weather to be outside.
I removed the drum from a dryer, larger diameter than a 55 gallon drum/barrel. Dig down about a foot around roots for a deeper burn. Add wood to fire. Leave alone for a couple of days and dig out ash and build a new fire. The drum sits on the roots, no need to drill holes. use the ash to fill in the hole, covered with dirt. I save the dirt in plastic buckets with lids. Ash goes into metal buckets with lids.
Mom had a 10" stump at the end of the garden, 75 yard shot from the tractor shed. I dug around the stump and added salt and sugar every time we visited, Deer Cocaine without calcium. I shot 2 deer feeding on the stump. The hole was 2 foot deep the last time I looked.
Went back to Kroger for more Quaker chewies, the cart was empty.
Cleaned the curb and got the muck into a bucket. Started the sprinkler in the front yard, added 5-0-0 fertilize. May need triple 13.
Head to post office soon to mail package of ingots. Head to Matt's with a load for the gully and chicken feed. May shoot the 410 while there.
There was a time yes, but with the talking heads trying to convince us that the important people from the Pres. on down to State Representatives are getting very rich(er) by using their knowledge and influence I must admit they have placed a grain of doubt in my mind.
If you deal in grain commodities, you know the price is greatly influenced by predictions of harvest numbers. Cause the market to drop, buy up a million bu. of corn then revise the report to indicate a smaller than expected harvest and reap the benefits of the increase in price. If you farmed through the Russian grain embargo of the late 70's you will recall what the words of a politician can do to commodity prices.
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