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"Tree stump removal ( sorry :-( )"

Hardly hard core gaming or anything of any interest.

for the green fingered:

Got a stump about three and a half feet wide and two and a half foot width I need to get rid of.

pouring the stump in petrol and igniting made quite an impressive scene for about 2 minutes, but nothing more came of it.

heard you can drill the stump in several places and keep topping up with oil, doing it several times a week so it gets imprgnated and setting fire to it that way, but otherwise I'm stumped (ho bloody ho)

digging the tree out is out of the question, it's huge!


so come on people, best way to burn a tree, i'm sure fellow pyromaniacs like me out there might have a better solution

thanks!

When is Robin coming back, i really hope he/she didn't take my advice about the petrol and bleach.

Ive never seen one , they are a nice tree i can see where your coming from!

Do you think a weeping willow would be any good, the bark would look fine but it would look unconventional as you couldn't really shape it, I've always liked them.

Will keep an eye out for you sweetie its a good thing to get into! :)

sweet Tooth wrote:
> i think there lovley if i see you on here again will get him to
> give you some good tips! :)

Thanks, i'm usually around but i spent too much time on here last year so i've not been around so much recently.

There was a guy selling one on EBay he had taken it out of his garden put it in a pot for 3 years and it sold for 400 quid..
My other half really into it for a while now have indoor and out door ones !i think there lovley if i see you on here again will get him to give you some good tips! :)

It's something i'm going to do at some point, i certainly can't afford to buy one so i'd have to start from the beggining.
I spent about a year as a trainee landscape gardener and wanted to do bonsai as a sort of side project, i can't remember how much the big bonsai cost but it was about 6 tall, it was either £700 or £2500, my memory is terible.

My other half will know about this as for the money side the value is about age and size..
A good book you can get is "Bonsai for beginners " by graig coussins.

you can pick up a Maple for a few Quid there good to start with!

sweet Tooth wrote:
> No thats not true i got loads of them
> One is a pear tree cut down out of garden got a big fat trunk and
> short!
>
> White pines make lovley Bonsai..

I've seen large ones but none that had roots that big, it is something i'd love to get into because i do like them and theyre also worth a lot of money, i was taught that you need to find a suitably woody tree, put it in a small pot and just keep the roots and the leaves short and it will never grow any taller because it doesn't have the purchase in the earth from having wide roots.

No thats not true i got loads of them
One is a pear tree cut down out of garden got a big fat trunk and short!

White pines make lovley Bonsai..