From: "TURTLE" 
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Tree stump stuck.
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:06:00 -0600


"Leroy Mowry" <@c.edu> wrote in message 
news:9_Sxd.891$5R.322@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
>A tree stump the size of Boeing engine core (3 cubic feet) is in a hole
> we cannot get out. We dug dirt around the tree stump, cut all the
> roots but not enough to get a manual saw comfortably in there. The
> stump moves freely with no obstructions but too heavy for any men to
> lift out of the hole.
>
> Our neighbor wants our large tree cut down, stump remove. And we
> spent all our last dime on a branch-trunk cutting crew. Which now
> leaves us with a heavy tree stump to be put into our large van going to
> a dumpsite. What are some ways that we could try to get a tree
> stump onto a flat surface?
>
> Thanks
>

This is Turtle.

First to get the stump out of the ground. If it will move a little and you then 
can run a chain around the roots and around the whole thing to attach it 
succurely to the chain. Then attach the chain to your truck and start pulling 
with small jerks and work up to big jerks. You can pull one way the un hook from 
it and pull from the other way. You can work it out of the ground and when it 
comes loose it will come out of the ground.

Now to get it in you truck. Buy you cheap come a long from the hardware store or 
borrow a come along and drag the stump over to a tree with the truck and then 
run the chain up and over a limb and the use the come a long to pull it up and 
then drive your truck under it and then let it down in your truck.

TURTLE