In my advanced stages of clearing the backyard area, I cleared the grounds to leave just the large double stump remaining. This stump is two separate stumps that are right next to each other and are each almost 2ft in diameter. These stumps, unlike the other ones I've dealt with, will take a little work to chop them down due to their huge size. I wanted to make sure all the weeds around this stump were cleared for the reason that I needed to be able to work around this thing as I cut into it all the way. Using an only slightly used chainsaw chain, I managed to work my way around the first half of the stump, chopping away the huge chunk of wood, leaving a couple of inches of base remaining above the ground. Now even though the ground slopes some, there is still some more of the stump that can be chopped away. At least now I can make vertical cuts into the middle of the remaining stump where I can cut into it at different angles to slowly remove the remainder of the stump section by section. The second stump half was a little more problematic. Whether it was because I put some wear on the chain cutting the first one or if it was just denser but this one gave me the blues. I ended up going through more battery power and had to tension the chain several times to allow the chain to stay straight as I cut into the stump wood. Eventually after working on this stump from all angles, I finally managed to chop all the way through the thing. Of course the cuts were at all kinds of angles, no chance of a good straight cut all the way across on this one. With the main stumps gone there was still a matter of the base of the double stump that was still sticking a couple inches or so above the ground. With the sloping ground and how the stump is situated, I don't see us ever being able to go over this with the mowers without damn near cutting the stump under the ground level but I would still like to try and get it as close to the ground as possible. With the main stumps gone, this allows me to make vertical cuts around the middle of the base like I stated before, so I can then cut from the side and remove the sections of stump without overworking myself or the tools. After chopping at the last stump, on my third and final battery, I had just enough battery power to be able to cut about a third of one stump free using this technique. Even with the cutting away of the double stump and a little bit of the base, I had to work to get these huge chunks of wood over to the burn pile. Using the two wheel dolly I muscled the two chunks over to the pile and worked them up onto the middle of the stack. I Know its gonna take a while to fully burn this wood completely away but at least with them on the burn pile I can stack crap over them and just work em down with every burn I do, a lot better than trying to pile stuff around the stumps while they're in the ground. I need em out of my way now. Once I do get the stump base cut down lower, I'll be mapping out what this area is gonna be. After removing the Fallen Trees, I can then further develop this area, whether its building more outbuildings for various uses or setting up a garage for the vehicles or whatever. More than likely whatever I do over this area I will have to take into account this stump base that will probably not be fully flush with the ground, whether I build over the stump, using it as a bit of a foundation base or build next to it where its tucked away between two structures, I'll figure out something. Until then I have to start working on getting the Fallen Trees processed.
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