We offer several chemical and biological methods that will tell you how to uproot a tree stump. You can also make a castle, a flower girl, a sculpture, natural furniture for a summer residence and a house from it.
Some summer cottage owners have faced such a problem - it is necessary to uproot the stump. This natural object could be in a pristine site, if before that there was a forest; if garden trees have become unusable; if they got the stump from the previous owners. You can beat this object or get rid of it.
How to uproot a tree stump - the best ways
There are several ways to help remove old tree stumps. You will choose the one that suits you best - chemical or biological.
Chemical methods of struggle
First you need to do the preparatory work. The stump is harvested at the end of summer, when there is no sap flow of plants. First, drill holes in it with a drill. Now decide which substance you choose to remove the hemp. You can use saltpeter. Then pour about 2 kg of this substance into these holes, pour water, close with foil or plugs.
But you have to wait a year. During this time, the substances will penetrate into the wood, and it will soften. Now it will be possible to pour a combustible mixture onto this object and set it on fire. Such processing will allow not only the stump itself to be set on fire, but also its roots. After that, only valuable ash will remain, which can be used for gardening needs. But then do not use chemical ignition agents.
If we talk about the advantages of this method, then you do not have to spend a lot of physical strength to implement this method.
But saltpeter can negatively affect nearby plants and you will have to wait a year before getting rid of stumps in the area. But if you have such time, then you can use the second method. It is less harmful than the use of saltpeter, since it implies the presence of urea. After you remove the stump from the garden in this way, you can plant plants here. The soil will be enriched with nitrogen due to urea and micronutrients, which include ash.
To carry out your plan, you must also first make holes in the stump, then pour urea here, cover with a film and wait a year. After this time, you can also set fire to this object.
If you are thinking of how to remove stumps from the site, and want to do it faster, use the following method. You will remove them with herbicides. But there is an important condition here, the stump must not be old, otherwise the method will not work. You will need to apply the herbicide to the fresh cut hemp and the ground around it. After that, you can remove this unnecessary object of nature. But herbicides are quite harmful to the surrounding plants. Therefore, you can use a completely safe method for them.
Also, with a drill, first make a hole in the stump, then pour table salt here and wrap it with foil. After a year or a year and a half, the fabrics of the tree will become softer, after which they can be burned.
There are other ways to uproot the tree stump. You can buy or rent a special shredder that will turn this natural object into sawdust. But it is more advisable to buy such a unit if you need to get rid of several stumps, and not from one. You can team up with your neighbors to make the purchase cheaper. Another option is to rent this equipment.
With the help of mushrooms
Here's another way. It is very interesting, as it allows you to turn an unnecessary natural object into a very useful one. In addition, you can get an impressive harvest on it. And the mushrooms themselves will gradually destroy the stump, turning it into dust. To do this, you need to buy oyster mushroom mycelium in the store or collect mushrooms in the nearest forest along with bark or hemp patches. When you bring all this to the site, drill holes in your stump, where you will lay the resulting mycelium.
It is necessary to water it and cover it with wet moss so that the roots do not dry out. Mushrooms are planted only on a cloudy day, when it is not hot. Within 4 or 5 years, you will be able to pick mushrooms from your site, and after this time the stump itself will turn into dust, since these mushrooms are parasites for trees, and gradually destroy them.
Deep cut
The next method will also show you how to get rid of stumps in the area. You will need to dig a trench around this natural site. Then use the chainsaw to cut down this remnant of the tree so that the cut is 5 cm below the soil level. Now cover it with the earth brought from the forest. Take it under deciduous trees. After all, such soil contains many microorganisms that will accelerate the decay of wood.
If there is no forest next to the site, then take leafy humus from your compost pit and add two glasses of nitrophoska to it and put this mass on the saw cut. Sprinkle with garden soil on top.
We plant a young tree
The next method will use the nutrients from the stump to grow another tree. Buy a seedling. Cut the stump to the maximum, using a chisel and hammer or power tools, hollow out the middle in the stump. Mix the soil with fertilizer and add this substrate to this slot. Water this makeshift pot and plant a seedling here. It will grow, its roots will gradually penetrate the stump to be in the ground, and destroy it.
But if you want to preserve this natural object, then turn it into an element of landscape design. Check out how to do this.
What can be made from hemp - photo and master class
But do not rush to remove this natural object from your site. After all, using imagination and some effort, you can use it to decorate your summer cottage in an unusual way.
Wood sculptures
Take a closer look, maybe it is enough to work a little on the hemp, and you will get an interesting sculpture.
To do this, you need:
- wood carving kits;
- varnish;
- small hatchet.
If your hemp also has a lateral wide root, you can turn it into that character's beard too. The main thing is to remove part of the bark, and with the help of a hatchet, make the beard even more voluminous below. Peel off the bark from the part where the face will be. Use a hatchet to cut out the location of the hair. Use the wood carving tools to make the facial features of this character. If you wish, then paint your work with a special varnish for wood, then this object will stand as long as possible.
If the tree has an outgrowth, then you will not have to work on it for a long time. Turn this bump into the next character's nose. If you have such a large stump, then the wheels of a child's bicycle will become eyes for him and at the same time glasses. But you can adapt the circles of wire for this purpose. Weave a hat from a vine, pour earth on top and plant plants here.
The next wood sculpture is also quite interesting. If you have a wide stump, then you can turn it into such a fish.
Use a chainsaw, ax, and woodcarving kits to cut off any excess. Also paint this art object to make it durable.
If you have two stumps at once, then you can create a similar flower garden out of them. At the same time, you will save a lot, since this object in the store costs 8,000 rubles today. And you only need a simple set of tools, time and desire.
Peel off the bark, use the tools to give these stumps such a look, completing the facial features. You can leave chaga somewhere, and in other places turn the growths into mushrooms, and then paint them. If you want these garden sculptures to become flower girls, then you need to remove the inside of the wood with a chainsaw or ax. Then you put soil in here and plant the plants.
To make these stumps more durable, treat them inside and out with an antiseptic. When it dries, lay cellophane inside this flower girl, only then pour the soil.
Now you know, before you uproot the stump, see if you want to create a wooden sculpture out of it. For the next one, only the upper part was machined with tools. Transform it into a human head to create such an unusual art object.
The next master class with step-by-step photos shows how to use a chainsaw to turn an old tree stump into a bucket of pouring water.
If you then want to collect the shavings, then cover the circumference of the earth around the hemp with cellophane or plastic in advance.
Now, using a chainsaw, remove the bark along with part of the wood from the upper third of the hemp. In the next step, remove the excess so that it looks like water is pouring. Finally, you will need to process the object with more sensitive materials to remove roughness and unevenness.
If you have a stump with branches, do not cut them down. After all, if you wish, you will turn these elements into the hands of such a cute monster. Paint the eyes and tops of some of the branches to achieve this effect.
And if one large branch departs from this object, then shorten it and the tips of the branches. Turn this element into horns by painting them. On the other hand, you will make a groove in the trunk so that it looks like a deer.
Now you are unlikely to think about how to uproot the stump? After all, you can make a pretty mushroom with a hat out of it. If the stump at the top is not so wide, then make the hat from another tree, or just take a basin, put it on this or Lesovichka's head and paint it to make it look like a mushroom cap.
You can only work on one side of the hemp by removing the bark. Use the tools designed for wood carving to make the face.
Old tree stumps can serve a different purpose as well. See which one.
How to make a hemp flower girl with your own hands?
If the tree stump contains any remnants of branches, do not cut them down. Use a chisel and hammer to punch holes. Then add soil here and plant ornamental plants or strawberries. It will bear fruit, the berries will be sweet, as they will be in the sun. They do not rush, because they do not touch the ground.
Watch a workshop that shows you how to make a flower girl from a tree stump.
Use a chainsaw, ax, or hammer and chisel to cut the middle out of the hemp. Also remove the bark from it. Now cover with antiseptic inside and out. If you want to insert a container inside the flower box, do it. Measure to fit the hole. And if you want to plant the plants directly in the stump, then first make drainage, which is suitable for foam.
Then add soil here and plant your favorite plants.
You can use completely different hemp sizes to make flower girls later. Paint them if you wish, and plant plants around as well. There will be an interesting accent on such a flower bed.
You can plant plants not in the stump itself, but in a container that will be located on it. Just do not forget to make holes in such a pot so that excess moisture can drain off.
Even an old tire can be used as such a container and thus find a new application for it.
If you want, make such a cute octopus out of an old tree stump. He will only need to attach the eyes and paint it with varnish. Make a small indentation on top to plant flowers here. This octopus will be the center of the flower bed, plant plants here and shield it with stones.
If the stump is quite tall, do not shorten it. Place the vines on top and secure the pots. You can use petunia for this purpose, it will very soon cover the top of the hemp with its beautiful flowers and hide it.
If the stump has beautiful, even roots, wash the visible part of the tree, then dry it and paint it. After making a depression, pour the earth here and plant the plants.
The kids will love the following idea for sure. See what else you can turn an old tree stump into.
How to make a hemp lock with your own hands?
Surprisingly, you can also make it from a tree stump. In addition, you will need:
- wooden planks;
- self-tapping screws;
- dye;
- brushes;
- plywood.
Saw a square of plywood in half diagonally to make 2 triangles. These will be the ends of the roof. Shoot them down with planks, placing them one above the other.
Do not discard the pieces of boards, but cut them into small rectangles. Paint it dark. Use white paint to paint the frames. If you wish, make the shutters out of wood and attach them with window loops. When necessary, the windows will be closed with shutters. Attach a wooden door and you can call your child for a fun game.
You can give the hemp a rectangular shape, remove one wall and take out the inside of the wood. Put a light bulb in the resulting hole in this house. If it is LED, it will light up in the evenings. But then you need to turn the power supply towards the Sun so that the light bulb is charged during the day. The roof for such a house is knocked out of wooden planks.
It is interesting to make a castle with various bells and whistles. Knock down the door from the planks, attach it and glue the heart with the inscription. Make a handle and loops. Attach the door to the side of the hemp. You can place plastic containers on top, put artificial flowers in them. But if you wish, plant the growing ones. Make several holes in the stump, process them to turn them into windows. Place a fence nearby.
If you have such an object in your personal plot, you will know what to do with your child in the summer at the dacha. Together with you, he can transform the stump, add new elements. For example, a gate with an arch, a beautiful fence, you can attach several plastic mushrooms and berries next to a hemp, put small dolls nearby that will live in this makeshift castle.
Let a path be located near the stump. You will make it from stones, from planks or rubble. And next to this main castle, the child will place several toy houses. Help him make a river of blue stones, a bridge to make the game even more interesting, and the child develops his imagination and comes up with new decorative elements.
You can supplement the stump with a second floor, and place toy animals or tables with chairs in the resulting tier. Thus, the child will lose in the children's cafe, feed his favorite dolls and other toys here. Therefore, you almost do not have to process the stump, you only need to make a door and a ladder from branches.
Hemp furniture
Now you probably won't think about how to uproot a tree stump, because you can make so many useful and beautiful things from it. It's great to create environmentally friendly furniture with your own hands.
Draw with a pencil or felt-tip pen where you need to cut with a chainsaw to get such a chair with a back. Then sand the inside so that there are no splinters. You will have a wonderful chair where you can relax in nature. And the beauty of such a product is that thieves will not steal it. After all, such a chair is simply impossible to carry away from the site. It literally rooted in the ground.
It would be nice to make carved handles. You don't even have to remove the bark to reduce physical and time costs. You can paint the chair with varnish or paint of your favorite color.
And if you still want to remove the bark, then you need to grind the stump, paint it with wood varnish. And at the top, fix the tabletop, you get a beautiful and comfortable wooden table.
And if you have a high stump, then you can cut off the top by making several circles out of it, to then create a chair out of them. And the stump itself will turn into a miniature table. It is enough just to hoist on it a small tabletop made of the same material.
Such a throne is worthy of a king. Treat the bark with a brown antiseptic to get such a beautiful tone and cut off the excess from the hemp. Treat the back with tools, it will turn out to be high, like a real throne.
You can make furniture from a stump not only for a summer residence, but also for a house. Saw off the upper part if you want to process and burn the lower part afterwards. And bring the top one home, dry it, then paint it with gold paint. You will get such an unusually beautiful product, a coffee table.
Even if the stump is old, its middle has turned into dust, you can make furniture for your home. Select this part, treat the rest with an antiseptic. You can paint the inside with sparkling paint so that in the dark this base of the table shines beautifully. Attach strong glass here, the coffee table is ready. You can also insert an LED light bulb inside.
You can simply attach roller legs to the cut hemp. Then you can move this piece of furniture effortlessly.
If you have an uneven stump, you don't need to trim the edges. Indeed, in this case, you will get an original, unique tabletop for the table. And construct the legs for it from bars and fasten them crosswise. Paint the item with varnish in several layers so that it shines beautifully.
If you like eco-style, then such stump furniture will come in handy.
See how wonderfully these wood coffee tables combine with light furniture that has wood components.
If you have a stool whose leatherette seat has already become unusable, then you will need to remove it and fix a piece of the treated tree stump.
Thus, you will have a small coffee table on which you can place a vase of flowers or some other items.
Also, a delicate bouquet will look beautiful on a hemp painted with gold paint. If you have several cuts, place them slightly asymmetrically and fasten them in the middle with a metal rod. This will create an original coffee bedside table.
You can make comfortable chairs out of stumps by removing the bark from them, treating them with varnish, and attaching soft seats on top.
Or do not process, but simply fix only the roller legs at the bottom. Then you will easily move such stools. Even pets love this kind of sustainable furniture. Because she is part of nature. And you will not be afraid that your beloved pet will ruin the expensive environment.
If you are interested in such ideas and want to broaden your horizons, then look at the stories that will help you turn a tree stump into the most useful things. Photo collection to help you.
And if you still need to remove this natural object, then see how best to do it, and how to uproot the stump.
