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Post date: Aug 13, 2016 8:39:03 PM
This week I cut six trees (and about ten more stumps) off my lot. I had been tripping over the stumps (only about 2” high — big enough to trip me but too small to notice) for months.
So I borrowed a neighbor’s 14” (small) electric chain saw. The saw was dull, so I replaced it with a new saw chain. I used that chain to cut three of the trees and the stumps, but — since I did not clear the dirt away from the stumps — had to replace the chain again. [It is cheaper to replace the saw chain at $15 than to buy the file, the file guide, and spend hours trying to sharpen an old chain.]
In the process of clearing dirt from around the stumps, I, of course, dug up a lot of rocks. So I had to remove rocks as well as cut off stumps.
I pile the trees onto the neighbor’s lot. I arranged with her for me to pay for the branches to be chipped and leave the chips on the ground. The pile in the photo is about 20’ long and 5’ high. In addition, I have a small pile of cut logs which might be good for firewood after it dries.After treating the stumps, I raked the soil (removing even more rocks) and covered the soil with a thin layer of mulch. (The mulch was chipping from the local tree service that will chip my pile of tree branches later this Autumn.) There is considerable fine material in this mulch (unlike some which is either ‘beauty bark’ or chipped logs), so this should rot quickly and add organic matter to the soil. I also added nitrogen fertilizer to help the mulch decompose.
The whole place looks less crowded with scrawny trees and less barren with exposed soil and rocks.
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