As you know, I've been working on the double stump for some time, enough so that I finally killed the drive sprocket on the chainsaw. After finally getting a replacement sprocket to fix the saw, I went back to work on the double stump. Of course to eat an elephant you do it one bite at a time. In the case of this elephant, I had to chop away at it one small section at a time. This stump, being as large as it is, was only able to be hit one section at a time, due to the fact that even the 18" blade of the saw couldn't reach all the way through the whole width of the stump. In the beginning I did save a few fair sized chunks of stump wood to split into firewood but after a while I said fuck it and started throwing all pieces cut out into the burn pile. The burn pile has some larger stump chunks that I've been burning away little at a time and adding to it as I cut more away. More than likely the stump wood would end up being some very tough wood to split and more than likely need a lot of work to get it to finally split, like some other logs I had issues with. Besides, there's more than enough logs/trunks to cut and split into future firewood that there's no need for me to try and save a few chunks of problematic wood. Off to the burn pile it goes! After repairing the saw and swapping out to a new chain I finally went all in and got the stump chopped clean away. At the angles I cut the stump, I left a depression in the center that is below the ground level, enough so that I can fill it in with dirt to try and level things off. It's not perfect but its good enough that we may be able to roll over it with the mower deck at a high setting. Either way, we can work around these remains without much issue. If I go to build or set up anything, the remains of the stump won't get in the way.
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