I am beginning to appreciate stump grinders

[IronWing]

drilling a big hole in it with an auger helps too. You can also add some accelerant of choice to the hole, build a little brush fire on top on the weekend and keep it burning all weekend while you drink beer and hang around the yard. Bonus points if you direct a box fan at it.
The stump will recede at a formula of -2" per case of beer.

This was my dad’s stump removal method. He would leave a two to three foot stump and let it dry for a year. Every Fourth of July he would burn a stump, using it as the core of a bonfire. The kids would light their sparklers off the stump while the adults sat around the fire drinking beer. The fire would burn under ground for days to weeks.

 

[skyking]

I burned the slash and trees from about 4 miles of freeway right of way about 27? years ago. I was working for Scarsella and had this rickety Cat 225 excavator and 4 honda powered fans. I'd work on 3 fires a day, and have them reduced to a pile of embers by the end of the shift.
I learned about personal limitations for extreme heat exposure, and that the bigger the excavator the better. A 400 would have been a better choice
You would think that the searing heat on your face would be it, or maybe on your hands on the controls. Nope.
It was nipples getting burned by the T-shirt that made me spin and track away from the heat.

 

[Micrornd]

You would think that the searing heat on your face would be it, or maybe on your hands on the controls. Nope.
It was nipples getting burned by the T-shirt that made me spin and track away from the heat.

I don't recall 225s ever being AC'd.
So what - door open and front glass up, little slide window by your ear open and that stupid little caged fan on the upper right falling down again and blowing on your feet?
Yeah, those were the good old days

 

[skyking]

oh yeah the good old days of that whole series of Cat excavators with the steering stick. you had to do a spastic pedal push and raised knee to the steering lever if you wanted an assisted turn, unlike EVERY OTHER INDEPENDENT PEDAL STEERING EXCAVATOR!!
That's right F-U Cat.
One track motor gets weak, always. Then you are dinking with that steering stick to go down the road straight. Gotta hold down the alarm cancel on that stick too.

 

[Micrornd]

What I really loved was hopping off an excavator onto a rubber-tire and the sticks being backassward or having 4 of them.
But once I got on a Grove RT with joysticks, load computer, all other controls in the cab, AND AC, I was HOME. You couldn't pry my ass out of the seat