Tree stump removal instructions that produce a very difficult, or even an impossible job, manageable.
I spent about 20 years re-landscaping homes. Tree Surgeons Welwyn Garden City used to re-landscape three homes weekly, and we did all this focus on evenings and Saturdays because I worked a full time job. I have no idea how many homes I re-landscaped over time, but the number is more than 500. All of those re-landscaping jobs had overgrown landscaping that needed to be removed before we're able to even start the actual landscaping job.
That meant that dozens and dozens of tree stumps and large stumps from overgrown shrubbery needed to be removed.
Needless to say county wisdom says that you just back up Bubba's pickup truck, wrap a chain around the stump and drive away as fast as you can. I'll admit, I've done that. Does it work? Type of. But it's also the best way to really tear up a pickup, completely destroy the lawn, and perhaps damage the house.
Therefore it's not such a good idea. Especially when you are doing work on someone's house like I was doing.
So over time we refined a technique for actually removing these stumps yourself. Tree stump removal yourself with the wrong tools can be an impossible task. Tree stump removal with the right tools is doable. I will not say it's easy work because it's not. But if you are using the right tools and the right techniques you don't need to strain your back and ruin your tools. It's more of a methodical procedure for digging round the tree stump with a good nursery digging spade, and utilizing a landscape bar, generally known as a spud bar to cut the roots as you encounter them while digging.
The secret is to start out away from the stump. In the event that you start working too closely to the stump you will encounter large heavy roots that'll be too difficult to deal with. So if you begin just a little farther and just start digging a small trench round the stump with the spade, then going around in the trench you merely dug with the spud bar to slice the roots that the spade won't cut, then more spade work, then more landscape bar work, that tree stump will come out of the ground. Don't pry and bend up your tools. Utilize the tools to slice the roots. Prying won't allow you to get anywhere as well as your tools will be ruined.
I've been teaching this technique on the Internet for a number of years now and people write to me at all times and tell me how well it worked for them.