Stump burning experiment - PLUS - hazard tree removal

Totally awesome that you got your daughter involved and let her learn to operate the tractor. Best thing we can do with our kids is get them involved! You're an awesome dad!

Very cool watching your young daughter drive the tractor and more importantly work for something she wants. My daughter is in her 30's now, learned to drive tractors young plus has great work ethic today. She will never forget these days working helping her dad. You won't either.

By the end of video, your daughter was all over yard without you. She did fantastic job with good guidance.

Your daughter is doing great, learning how to use the tractor. Honestly, that's the best way to learn!

Spectacular letting your daughter learn the equipment at her age. Great moments in their lives!

liked because you're exactly the kind of father this world needs. instilling work ethic and giving them encouragement and the freedom to figure out how to use equipment. Your daughter will grow to be strong, skilled, and confident. Good man.

Ya gotta love it when a plan comes together. Watching you teach your daughter how to drive the tractor reminds me of my wife and I teaching our daughter how to mow. Enjoy every moment you have with your daughters. Children grow up much too quickly. Have a blessed and safe week.

Use an auger bit 3/4-1” diameter and six inch length. Drill into the stump. Fill holes the night before with either diesel or cooling oil. Stump will absorb. The added holes will allow quicker heat penetration as well as fuel absorption. Much faster.

Your daughter is definitely old enough to start driving your small tractor and a lawnmower. She did a good job and you taught her a good lesson about being willing to work for things she wants. My father put me on our small tractor out in one of our pasture fields when I was 9 years old. He gave me some basic instructions and told me to drive it around until he came back in an hour or so. The next morning he hooked the plow to it and put me to plowing the fields.

Safety is important but I ran my Dad's John Deere when I was 7 or 8 years old. I taught my cousin's son to run the Old Farmall with a brush hog when he was maybe 10 or 12 (with my close supervision of course). Too many kids growing up afraid of their own shadow today.

Never understatement the value of teaching them when their young.

I did this exact same process removing a stump at the very edge of my concrete patio. It was closer to the house so I could not build it too large. I found that doing smaller, more frequent burns removes the stump faster with less effort. You want to remove the ashes because no matter how hot you make your fire, if the ashes are insulating the stump, it won't burn. I removed a similar sized stump with two bags of charcoal and about 1/10th the amount of wood but it took me 8 days total but fewer hours per day. I love this technique.

I like the way you advissd your daughter about turning the tractor. Always nice to have little helpers. You make a good point about your method of stump burning, all you have to invest is a bit of time now and again - doesnt matter if it takes a few days as long as it can be topped up to keep it going.

Yup. Your video popped up on my recommendations. I watched it with the sound off. (I'm listening to music and feeling nostalgic.) Wonderful to see your lovely daughter helping you out. My son, an undeserved gift from God, helps me out sometimes. I'll miss him, my only, when he goes off on his own. Good health to you and your family, sir. And happy birthday to the greatest nation on earth. Great 'cause of people like you and your family.

wow! watching this brought me back to when my dad taught me to drive our john deere 350 front end loader. I was barely tall enough to reach the pedals but it was the best because it felt like i was driving a tank! awesome life experiences you're teaching her.

Many years ago, back in the late 60's I worked as firefighter for bush fires. One of our biggest enemies was root fires. In heavier bush fire would go down into the roots of trees (especially dead ones) and burn for sometimes weeks before it would resurface sometimes quite a distance away and start another fire! So normal practise was to fly over periodicaly to check for signs of resurfacing fire.

I was quite pleased with the results of using potassium nitrate stump remover. In the process of applications, I learned that hot water on the stove would dissolve a much larger portion of it and then just pour that on the above ground stump to air dry for a few weeks. Any hint of fire started after that will cause the stump to smoulder on underground perhaps a foot deep as the potassium nitrate is an oxidizer turning the stump wood into a very low grade fuse, and the remaining potassium nitrate after smouldering does go out acts as a quick decomposing fertilizer for rot to run rampant with what ever is left. Wind up with a hole in the ground. If you the time to let it dry (2 weeks?) and burn (another week) , it certainly takes the work out of that job.

Looking good, held my breath when you cut the tree next to the barn🙏👏. Great job, thanks.

Always nice seeing young ones learning and working on equipment to better their knowledge.

The Way you Analyzed the Saw Cut on the Tree Bottled My Mind! Very Impressive Mike & Logic that made me feel Stupid when I Realized it should had Been Common Sense to a Fella Like Me. Nope, not even a little bit