[AT] 100 year old stumps are nasty (burning)

[Dean VP]

Bear:

Yep, I have had my fair share of FUBAR's. But, I guess if one takes on some
tough tasks once in awhile "stuff" is going to happen. I'm just irritated
with myself that I didn't see all the possibilities before it happened.
Thought I had planned ahead properly. We get too soon old and too late
smart!  :-) 

Took the GT into the JD dealer today and their first blush repair cost was
in the neighborhood of $1500. It is amazing what JD charges for parts these
days. Fortunately the insurance company is going to pay for a majority of
the repairs. Well, until my Homeowners insurance rates go up! Oh well, some
of the parts that got busted needed some repair anyway, just not quite this
much. :-) At least they haven't totaled it out and then I would have to deal
with a bigger issue. 

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
storeroom door 


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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Billy Hood
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 6:48 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] 100 year old stumps are nasty (burning)

I have been burning stumps for years with a 3" electric forge blower, I
picked up somewhere.  Last year I could not locate it and had two 24+"
hickory stumps in the yard to burn out.  I used a squirrel cage blower (from
an old furnace/air handler) and a piece of old tin and started burning the
first one out.  Someone told me to make homemade "napalm" (sp?).  I took
about 5 qts of stale gasoline and started dissolving Styrofoam in it.  I
think I wound up with a bobtailed truck of foam and it still was
runny--really I had over 5 cu yds of foam in it.  Added some dish detergent
and it helped.  Added some old hyd oil and stirred it with air pressure and
presto--napalm  The second stump was hollow about 4" and 1ft below ground.
I drilled into the hollow at ground level about 1 1/2 hole and lit the
napalm and added air from the blower.  I had this stump burned completely
out by 9 that night.  But it was not worth the effort of making the "goop".
I have since located the blower--by brother borrowed it and it works great
with some pipe for burning stumps--cheaper than stump grinder and time don't
mean nothing to a hog.

Dean.  Sorry about your mishap with the tree and your tractor.  We were
building a house last year and a big oak limb (15 in) had cracked at the
trunk of the tree.  We had house in dry and deck felted.  I tied the backhoe
boom to the limb, climbed a ladder, and cut the limb.  Everything tied off
and safe--right--wrong.  We had to rebuild two trusses, replace some top
plate and several studs broken when the limb jumped back and landed on the
corner of the house.  Easier to repair than file a claim on builders risk
insurance.  As long as you weren't hurt, the other things are replacable.
We all have to experience these "foobars" every once in a while.
Bear
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bruce Fallon<mailto:bfallon at whidbey.com> 

  Burning stumps and limbs any source of air works good I have an old
squirrel 
  cage fan when close enough for extension cords or a gas powered fan . Also

  putting an old hood or tin sign  sheet metal anything like that over the 
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