The owners of the house we live in sent out a tree service last November to trim the trees in our back garden and (presumably per the owners' instructions) chopped down a hedgerow that went about halfway across our back garden and separated a little vegetable patch from the lawn area.
Unfortunately, that same tree service didn't remove the stumps, so we're left with a (roughly) 2 meter x 8 meter patch in our back garden that is just bare dirt and stumps. The largest of the stumps are about 10-12cm in diameter, with most being 4-8cm in diameter. I'd say there are 20-30 stumps in all.
The owners of the house have given us carte blanche to do what we want with the back garden aside from altering the still-standing trees (for which they have the aforementioned tree service coming by every year). I'm hoping to either expand the vegetable garden area with some new raised beds, or use that patch of conveniently already flattened and grass-free ground for a little greenhouse to start seedlings in so I can get the most out of the growing season. But either way, those stumps need to be gone.
Some of the thicker ones seem a little too big for a mattock. I do have a little 18-inch battery-powered chainsaw I brought with me from the States when we emigrated last year.
Anyone with experience in stumps of this size know the best way to get them out, so I can actually make use of that patch of land?
by JGG5
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Mattock, rope, a long lever/pry bar and sweat I’m afraid.
Hard, hard work. Get a mattock. And, if you’re an idiot like me, watch your feet. I nearly broke my own foot off trying to get a good old whack at a stump I was trying to remove 😆