The fastest and easiest way to burn large tree stumps (and small). *updated*

I live in an apartment with no yard, but I’m still addicted to tree stump removal videos.

Thank you for making a basic, simple, direct, and to the point "how to" video without 20 minutes of bullshit exposition. You sir are my hero for today. 👍

Sitting in my quiet living room with the volume turned up I heard you just fine. Thanks for the info.

My father used this method to remove a stump on our property 45 years ago. It’s an ancient method that is very effective. No need for heavy duty grinding equipment.

This is the best version of the method. I like the steel drum angle. Several other videos on the subject say nothing about having water at hand.

Fire starters are great. I wore one out! I’m on the second one now. Good idea. Thanks for sharing.

This worked really good for me. I have a HUGE sweet gum stump and used a small metal 5 gallon bucket to get it going good. I kept putting on some of last years smaller firewood. It's still going to take some work but it's a good beginning.

I found out about doing it that way about twenty years ago. I got a 3' section of an old 20 gal. oil drum and put it over the stump and elevated it a couple of inches with some rocks to make an airspace underneath, and started a charcoal fire on top of the stump. I had to add more charcoal every couple of hours, and finally it started burning down on the inside on its own. The next morning there was a hole in the ground. In one week I burned over a dozen old pine stumps on my property using that section of oil drum. If I had a really big stump I'd go buy a used 55 gal. drum and cut the bottom out of it and use it the same way.

Finally somebody's got it right. I always use charcoal and it always works. Good job great video. Thanks again

I'm a retired contractor with about 45 years experience and by far, hands down, the best tool i've ever owned or used (and I've owned and used many!) is a Komatsu PC28 Excavator with a thumb. It makes short work out of removing small to medium sized stumps in about an hour. Larger ones can take a couple hours but not days, weeks, months, or years...I bought a "grey market machine" down in Oregon (no sales taxes) and it's paid for itself many times over. So many uses, i can't even list them all here and best of all, no more back breaking hard ass work!!! The machine does it all and is actually fun!! If you can afford one, you won't be disappointed...guaranteed!!!! (PS. I have 5 acres in Western Washington so it's a God sent!!)

I just used a metal bucket I got from my job and cut the bottom out with tin snips. Put some charcoal and twigs from my yard . Worked great I didn't even put air holes in it, had enough space at the bottom.

Wow what a simple and great idea never thought about it thanks lots going out to burn some stumps

Amazing what gets put up on my youtube recommended. I have never burnt a tree stump, I never plan on burning a tree stump, I doubt I ever will burn a tree stump, but this is still interesting to me for some reason.

That's pretty much how we've done it for years, we also just lay cinder blocks in a circle around the stump 2 courses high, get the fire going and throw on 2 big bags of charcoal bag and all, come back in the morning and no more stump, depending on how moist the soil is you can get them to burn a good 10-12 inches below ground level. Thanks for posting, there's a lot of people here on YouTube that must be common sense challenged because they come up with the most difficult ways of accomplishing such a simple task.

Great job. Got some stumps around that have been there forever it seems. Cedar, because it's insect resistant, seems to last forever when it comes to stumps. Gonna try this method.

Finally someone that knows how to make it easy. You can lay one piece of charcoal on the middle of stump light it next day 3 pieces light it then the next day build a fire in the hole of the stump with metal dryer drum around it and pretty much no cost and easy to do. Or like this guy buy a bag of charcoal and try and burn it out in one day 5 Dollar bag of charcoal. All my stumps were green and wet and I still burned them out. Iike small fires and coals with a perforated lid on top when its windy or leaving overnight so no fires break out.

Sweet, I can't wait to try this method. Im going on craigslist right now to find a 55 Gal drum.

I use my leaf blower, left over chips and bark and a cup of diesel and an open ended 5 gal bucket or drum to keep it safe if you have brush or high grass near by and most of my stumps are oak

I watched a lot of videos and this looks to be the best way to burn tree stumps under a controlled conditions. I gotta try this out

Went and cut the bottom out of my 55 gallon drum. 6 Pine Tree Stumps to burn....Thanks dude!