Thread: milling stumps

best use a power washer. Will use less water and should remove the stones and dirt you will find hidden in the creases.

I wouldnt use anything put cheap chain on stumps due to the fact that you are likely to hit something. There may not be any stones in the stump but I wouldnt guarentee that. You may even find rocks and steel posts. Have you run a metal detector over the stumps yet?

Before milling have a good study of the shape of the stumps to determine what you can best get from them. Should be looking for the unusual from them.

arthur

Yeah, I'm with Arthur. I've slabbed a couple of really old greybox stumps and although they haven't had any metal in them they were full of dirt. I first cleaned the solid packed in dirt with a crow bar and then hit it with a pressure cleaner. These stumps were from trees that had fallen about 15 years ago so the dirt was pretty hard to remove. I used the standard oregon chain but they were VERY VERY hard! Results were worth it though. Good luck Weisy, and don't forget to take some pics.

Neale

next time you get a stump like that try diagonal slabbing. Give an amazing grain in the trunk but with all those roots it would be similar to a burl.

Must get a dozer in and pull up some of the bigger stumps we have to show you.

cheers

arthur

Thanks Arthur, I hadn't thought of that . Might try it with this big Redgum from the FIL's place

Hey Carl, I saved a few Bluey stumps for a road expansion a couple of years back. Bought a pressure washer as mentioned to clean out the dirt, tried shocking them with the sledghammer on the more solid parts of the stump, also went at it with steel bars and cold chisels.

After 2 weeks of different tactics, I wasn't much closer to running a chain through them, I felt they would have some terrific grain patterns in slab form, but wasn't able to get them 'clean' enough for me to want to put a chain into them?

I do think a pressure cleaner would be the go, but also maybe a combination of soaking and drying the dirt as well as one of those petrol driven cleaners - maybe a hire shop job, a bit too expensive to buy one of those bigger ones jsut to clean up some root balls