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Since ants are overly interested in my wastebasket I WILL JUST PUT THE wastebasket on top of the stump and the ants will eat the stump.
Supposed to work with hogs with corn place under stump roots or goats or deer and a salt lick. (they eat stump to get the salt)
I got no hogs or goats or deer,
just ants. Might take a while.
How to remove a stump? Sigh.
Dec 4 2013
Hit stump with a large hammer today out of frustration not expecting anything much to happen. Stump shattered like it was made of pottery. The termites and rot had been at work underneath. only the heart wood core is still intact.
Was tempted to drop a match. Appeared solid
burnng stump
http://www.youtube....watch?v=t4bwU7JVPjs
How to burn a stump. [popbottle, Dec 03 2013]
sawzall
http://www.milwauke...es=saws+and+cutters
Sawzall [popbottle, Dec 03 2013]
waterknife tm waterjet
http://www.flowwaterjet.com/
Maker of waterknife [popbottle, Dec 03 2013]
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// the ants will eat the stump. // |
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No, the ants will climb up the stump to get to the
wastebasket. What you want here are termites, who will
eat the stump with or without the wastebasket. |
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If you're in need of advice, the ultimate area-denial
weapon against ants is non-lithium axle grease (the dark
red Texaco brand seems to work best for me). A 1/4" bead
surrounding the base of the wastebasket will keep them
out. |
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For removing stumps, try a tractor, bulldozer, excavator,
etc. If none of those are available try a shovel and a
sawzall. |
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always wanted to have a go with a water knife to remove earth. |
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What about that stuff people use to make rocket fuel? Potassium nitrate? |
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Ammonium Perchlorate, perhaps? That would do the job. |
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1. Drape a large Union Flag over the stump. |
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2. Run away VERY FAST, duck and cover. |
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3. Wait (won't be long) for the USAF to blast the stump and its surroundings out of existence. |
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// Ammonium Perchlorate // |
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... and microcrystalline magnesuim powder, MUHWHAHAHAH ! AHAHAHAHAH ! YOU FOOLS ! WE'LL KILL YOU ALL ! ALL ! HAHAHAHAH, AHAHAHAHA ! |
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<wipes spittle from shirt> |
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I assume you refer to what I know as the Union
Jack? Get over it already. Friendly fire is part of war,
especially if
you invite Americans. You all know going in how much we
love to throw our ordnance around. |
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Take a backpack, fill it with fertilizer, couple of wires
and an alarm clock. Place it on the stump. Tell the
local rozzers there were some suspicious bearded
types near it... saying something about "practice
run". The whole thing will be gone in no time. |
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^ umm, but if you're going to do all that, then why not save yourself a phone call ? |
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Well, presumably it's all dried out by, so drilling holes in it and pouring in nitric acid should render some of it into gun-cotton. |
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//umm, but if you're going to do all that, then why
not save yourself a phone call// |
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Because if you actually want to make it go bang,
you have to source a fertilizer with a high enough
percentage/do a bit of purifying, then there's a
det, and tedious wiring. And you can get in
trouble. Much easier to put some low percentage
fertilizer in a bag with some wires and an alarm
clock, no laws broken there, but should be enough
to fool one of those sniffing robots. |
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Ok, here's what ya do.
Go get yourself busted doing something fun, (might as well have fun if your going to go to the trouble). When you are given one phone don't call your lawyer, call your significant other /room-mate /landlord..., whoever is home, and warn them that they need to get rid of you-know-what under the stump in case they get a warrant. |
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