Originally posted by spennysaint
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An old long sleeved fleece.
A pair of leather gardening gloves.
Longhandled loppers.
For getting the roots out.
A sharp spade.
A fork.
A mattock (like a pickaxe but broad 4" blades instead of a spike and 1" blade).
A pickaxe.
A couple or four of housebricks or better still drive paving blocks.
A six foot scaffold pole or very strong wooden fence post.
The last three are used as levering devices, the pickaxe on its own, the bricks a fulcrums and the post or pole as a lever.
Most come up with spade / mattock cutting, make a moat round the stump and then use the fork for levering, shove it into the moat and under the castle(stump) at a shallow angle, then lift the handle.
Bigger ones need the pickaxe, whack the point under the centre from one side, push the handle to vertical, then swap sides and pull the handle to continue the levering in the same direction, as the stumpcomes out the pickaxe will bear onto the lip of the moat.
Really stubborn ones need the lever, put the bricks in the ,moat, put the end of the lever into the failed pickaxe attempt hole, adjust the bricks so the pole at 45 degrees just rests on them and pull down.
PS If the lever bends or breaks say "Damm, we should have got something stronger,".
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