Last Saturday, now that rain and snow ended all the tree stump smoldering and settled the ashes, I found three stumps still had parts left unburnt. For one stump, when I fill the hole in with dirt later I will also use the tractor to pull up and out the unburnt side root. The other two stumps, I used branches and debris from a tree branch pile I am cleaning up to have a few mini-bonfires to get rid of the rest of those stumps.
I figured I would dig a little dirt away from the stumps. For one of the stumps I found much more of the stump to burn that I expected.
 |
| Stump 17 |
Normally the amount of paper I had brought has been enough to get the fires going. Not this time.
The branches and wood were still a little damp.
 |
Stump 17
|
I went home to get more paper. But it was getting to be late afternoon so I planned on waiting until Sunday afternoon when it would be sunnier and warmer to burn the stumps. But this pile of wood did finally catch fire. I waited until Sunday to burn the other stump.
 |
| Stump 17 the next morning |
On Sunday there was still some of the stump left especially a side root at the bottom of the photo. So I got more wood and lit another fire.
 |
| Stump 17 |
 |
| Stump 17 |
This time the small bonfire finished off most of the stump. The remainder will get reburied once the stump is done smoldering.
 |
| Stump 17 |
Sunday's bonfire to burn stump 16.
 |
| Stump 16 |
Before and after photos of stump 16.
No comments:
Post a Comment