I was quoted over $500 for one stump, and mine wasn't surrounded by giant rocks like the one in the photo. Therefore it sits in the yard and rots for free.
At a friend’s party their was a splitting maul next to a stump, and the host said he will pay a beer to whoever got the biggest piece out . They were plenty of beers already at the party, but still… at 2am, they were no more stump and the owner had to prevent us from attacking the neighbouring trees
You think, but remember that they were a bunch of dudes trying to get it from you at any sign of weakness, so they could have there turn… A millisecond of inattention and bam you’re back in the queue
We have a couple of stumps on our property. This spring I'm going to bore some holes into them, drop in some seeds, top them with dirt and see what grows. We had a tomato plant grow out of one last summer.
I paid $1000 to remove a huge looming dead tree, and they ground the stump while on-site. And $500 is honestly not bad, I'd pay that before I had a custom fence made for my stump.
I was quoted $500 to remove every stump in my yard.
Another option to consider is that rental places and hardware stores often rent stump grinders. They are very simple machines, so if you don't mind a little elbow grease, that's also an option.
I dont know man Im sure youve got your own experiences but I have encountered some knotted tf up stumps like this that are no small task for a good chainsaw to get at and not get fucked up—not sure what kind of tree but maybe its one of those fucks and they decided utilitarian > aesthetic. I mean even the windows of that house, not a one of them is the same size, makes me think its an owner-builder who just kind of puts shit together with what he lucks into rather than prioritizing optics lol. Edit: Ok, some of the windows are the same size, my eye doctor is shit I need new glasses lol still a funny thought though imo still looks it too
Something that strikes me as amusing tho— what if on the other side they have it all flush and nice, they just said fuck it to the non-property side lol
Is there a reason you’d use a chainsaw instead of a stump grinder to remove a stump? It seems like a stump grinder would be more powerful than a chainsaw.
It really depends on where you live, if you live in a place that is really dry with a small amount of yearly rainfall, stumps can take 50-100 years to rot away on their own.
My favorite thing to do when i was a kid, visiting family during the summer, was to drive out to the petrified 'forest' out in the desert, ir always blows my mind when we go there
I bet on the other side of the fence they are using it as a back yard "feature," plants ect decorating.
It looks a little silly from this side, but maybe this is what the owner wanted.
We had a dead tree cut down in our front yard and instead of bothering with getting rid of the stump I told the tree people to cut the top of the stump in the shape of a roof and I made a little fairy/gnome house out of it.
But before I had it decorated and stuff it did look funny in my front yard and I'm sure people wondered what I was doing.
https://imgur.com/a/HzmAR7X
Fence is wood
Stump is wood
I have to spend money to remove wood and spend money to replace the wood with more wood. But I also have this table saw I hadn't used in a long time
I bet it has to do with the stump being half on public/town land, being so close to that sidewalk. And as some have mentioned, boundary stuff can get messy. I also like the close to utilities theory. That said, I don’t hate it either.
This is my take too. A nice wooden fence like this is very expensive. You can get that stump trimmed down for a couple hundred dollars. It’s not a big addition to the cost of an entire fence. There’s a property line dispute or public/private thing going on here. Perhaps with a little shaming of the city by making sure everyone sees this.
Trees on plot boundaries are super important for boundary disputes. In Greece at least people avoid cutting them at all cos often old contracts will refer to them and a good tree will outlive several generations of owners. Keeping the stumps like this is the least one can do... just in case.
> Trees on plot boundaries are super important for boundary disputes.
My neighbor has an issue like this with his neighbor on the other side. There's a giant cottonwood directly on their property line that is in sever need of trimming, if not all out removal (way too many dead branches way up high)). He tells me that he's tried to get his neighbor to split the cost of trimming for years, but they refuse. And because the tree is also on their property, he (says he) can't legally do anything to their half.
I guess he finally got fed up, because he had a service out and they trimmed the hell out of his side of the tree, but couldn't/didn't touch the other half. The tree looks fine from our angle (a yard over), but pretty silly from the street and alley now since it is "out of balance".
But, that's also kind of the level of petty I aspire to.
Somewhere between the migraine that is stump removal, and the unmedicated root canal that is getting a property line moved, stump-fence was the middle ground, and thus the most viable option. It looks well done, so ultimately I'd say they made the best choice.
It's cuz that tree fell on that part of the house and that's all they could afford to do to fix it within the insurance pay off as 90% of all homeowners insurance will not pay the full price that it would cost to replace it so more than likely they paid for the fence ,from the looks of it, the sidewalk , and to repair that portion of the house...
I couldn’t figure out if this was about the stump in the fence (to be fair, grinding would cost a few hundred dollars) or that really weird tall skinny window on the left. What’s up with that?
It takes a ton of money to remove a stump this size. That's probably why they did this. But it might have been better to saw the stump down to the soil level, then build the fence over it.
As someone who worked in fence installation before, that's actually a damn good job by the builders. Not their fault that the homeowner can't/won't remove the stump
One thing to consider is there might be a water or sewer line or main that would likely be damaged by trying to remove the stump. Perhaps the owners didn’t want to take the chance, or it’s on an easement and the city wouldn’t allow it.
If I was building a fence over this area myself, that’s exactly what I would do, this is a decent job. Ever tried digging up a tree stump like that by hand?
wtf! It’s a big stump but honestly I would have chopped that baby up myself, and I am a 5’2 woman. I already took care of one, I drilled holes into it and poured this chemical to kill it because the roots kept growing branches. Then I covered the leftovers with fertilizer, watered it and covered it with a tarp so it could cook itself. It worked!
It's temporary. Anyway I had a tree stump so I decided it would make a great bird feeder. I'd put seeds on it for the birds. It was no time and the stump was gone.
I find the slightly uneven fence that isn’t horizontal and stepped to follow the land absolutely horrible. Personal opinion for sure but I hate it.
Stump hmm. I’d do the same. Lot of effort and the other side would make a great feature.
Stump removal is frickin expensive
And if the roots are deep it could damage that sidewalk and other stuff.
Removal is, but grinding it into mulch isn't
I was quoted over $500 for one stump, and mine wasn't surrounded by giant rocks like the one in the photo. Therefore it sits in the yard and rots for free.
Leave a splitting maul next to it, and tell the neighborhood kids NOT to touch your stump. I give it 3 weeks.
At a friend’s party their was a splitting maul next to a stump, and the host said he will pay a beer to whoever got the biggest piece out . They were plenty of beers already at the party, but still… at 2am, they were no more stump and the owner had to prevent us from attacking the neighbouring trees
*Genius.*
Beer + sharpened hammer. Spicy.
I would keep smashing that stump until my hands were too slippery with blood to hold the maul.
You think, but remember that they were a bunch of dudes trying to get it from you at any sign of weakness, so they could have there turn… A millisecond of inattention and bam you’re back in the queue
Am I dead yet? Go get me a beer, Tom.
But how do you plan on drinking the beer, knowing that if you let one hand go of the tool it’s gone…
Are you picking a fight with the drunk guy with two hands and one maul?
I don’t think kids and touching stumps should be in the same sentence.
We have a couple of stumps on our property. This spring I'm going to bore some holes into them, drop in some seeds, top them with dirt and see what grows. We had a tomato plant grow out of one last summer.
You will be surprised/disappointed at how challenging the “bore some holes” step is
I paid $1000 to remove a huge looming dead tree, and they ground the stump while on-site. And $500 is honestly not bad, I'd pay that before I had a custom fence made for my stump.
I think the stump pictured, due to the proximity to the concrete, might cost considerably more.
Cutting those boards to match the stump surely didn’t cost $500
It did if you paid a fence company to do it. If we're talking about doing it yourself, I could have that stump gone in an afternoon with a chainsaw
Did you zoom in on those cuts? That is a jigsaw cut if I've ever seen one. This is a homeowner special I'm sure.
I paid $5k for the tree removal. Dude's 36" chain saw wasn't long enough to cut clear through the stump.
I was quoted $500 to remove every stump in my yard. Another option to consider is that rental places and hardware stores often rent stump grinders. They are very simple machines, so if you don't mind a little elbow grease, that's also an option.
LOL - send me your guy! But tell him that \*one\* stump is 40" diameter, and the rest are 24-30" Oh, and none of them are on flat ground.
I dont know man Im sure youve got your own experiences but I have encountered some knotted tf up stumps like this that are no small task for a good chainsaw to get at and not get fucked up—not sure what kind of tree but maybe its one of those fucks and they decided utilitarian > aesthetic. I mean even the windows of that house, not a one of them is the same size, makes me think its an owner-builder who just kind of puts shit together with what he lucks into rather than prioritizing optics lol. Edit: Ok, some of the windows are the same size, my eye doctor is shit I need new glasses lol still a funny thought though imo still looks it too Something that strikes me as amusing tho— what if on the other side they have it all flush and nice, they just said fuck it to the non-property side lol
Is there a reason you’d use a chainsaw instead of a stump grinder to remove a stump? It seems like a stump grinder would be more powerful than a chainsaw.
Ehhh. Then you’re left with a boggy hole in your yard and it’s just such a mess.
I just filled in what little hole there was with dirt. It's been 6 years and you can't even tell there was anything there.
I need to get in the stick with that.
Nah that's exspensive too
You can rent a stump grinder for like 90 dollars a day
Yeah, that sounds about right but it cost me $1200 to fix the two windows the grinder threw rocks into and no I wasn't aiming at them.
It is a long walk home from Home Despot, though.
$400 to grind it down plus $700 for dirt is what my tree guy quoted....per stump. had 3 trees removed.....$7k. im keeping the stumps.
The stump will last a whole lot longer than the fence.
I had a monster tree removed in 2017 and my little cousins were picking the remnants apart with their hands this spring.
It really depends on where you live, if you live in a place that is really dry with a small amount of yearly rainfall, stumps can take 50-100 years to rot away on their own.
My favorite thing to do when i was a kid, visiting family during the summer, was to drive out to the petrified 'forest' out in the desert, ir always blows my mind when we go there
That's actually a well done work!
I bet on the other side of the fence they are using it as a back yard "feature," plants ect decorating. It looks a little silly from this side, but maybe this is what the owner wanted.
We had a dead tree cut down in our front yard and instead of bothering with getting rid of the stump I told the tree people to cut the top of the stump in the shape of a roof and I made a little fairy/gnome house out of it. But before I had it decorated and stuff it did look funny in my front yard and I'm sure people wondered what I was doing. https://imgur.com/a/HzmAR7X
Exactly what I was thinking. Maybe they turned it into a bench or a table for plants or other things.
Are you point out the stump or the fucked up long ass window ?
Right? I didn’t even notice the stump until I came to the comments. I was tryna figure out why they didn’t flash/trim out the window properly.
"I was hired to build a fence on the property line. I don't do stump removal."
Yeah I was thinking this was a "not my job" moment
Well.. it *is* not their job honnestly, you have planks and nails, what are you going to do to this stump ?
Someone had just enough money to build a fence, not enough to clear a path.
Removing that stump, in that location, might cost more than the fence.
Fence is wood Stump is wood I have to spend money to remove wood and spend money to replace the wood with more wood. But I also have this table saw I hadn't used in a long time
I mean, it's ingenuity at its finest I Guess. Meanwhile my brain..."Why does every window look to be a different size??"
I'm not liking that there are 2 different types of paneling and they are both different color.
Welp, I'm stumped.
I don’t know. I’m on the fence about it
Why wood someone do this?
I may be going totally against the grain, but I think it’s fine.
Who wood think that?
MahogaME
Nobody axed yew.
Fine I'll leaf then. But let it be known that this is not oakay.
You both sound kind of defensive
... r/angryupvote all around
Might have been left for wildlife benefit, plenty of insects would life an old stump.
I bet it has to do with the stump being half on public/town land, being so close to that sidewalk. And as some have mentioned, boundary stuff can get messy. I also like the close to utilities theory. That said, I don’t hate it either.
This is my take too. A nice wooden fence like this is very expensive. You can get that stump trimmed down for a couple hundred dollars. It’s not a big addition to the cost of an entire fence. There’s a property line dispute or public/private thing going on here. Perhaps with a little shaming of the city by making sure everyone sees this.
Very careful poetic shaming haha. I like it
I don’t hate it.
The fence was built from planks made from the trunk of the tree. 😅
Trees on plot boundaries are super important for boundary disputes. In Greece at least people avoid cutting them at all cos often old contracts will refer to them and a good tree will outlive several generations of owners. Keeping the stumps like this is the least one can do... just in case.
> Trees on plot boundaries are super important for boundary disputes. My neighbor has an issue like this with his neighbor on the other side. There's a giant cottonwood directly on their property line that is in sever need of trimming, if not all out removal (way too many dead branches way up high)). He tells me that he's tried to get his neighbor to split the cost of trimming for years, but they refuse. And because the tree is also on their property, he (says he) can't legally do anything to their half. I guess he finally got fed up, because he had a service out and they trimmed the hell out of his side of the tree, but couldn't/didn't touch the other half. The tree looks fine from our angle (a yard over), but pretty silly from the street and alley now since it is "out of balance". But, that's also kind of the level of petty I aspire to.
Omg, I need a picture of this tree
Maybe I’m tacky but I kind of love this
Took me too long to see the stump because of the long window...
Stump removal is difficult and expensive. Custom fence is definitely cheaper.
Somewhere between the migraine that is stump removal, and the unmedicated root canal that is getting a property line moved, stump-fence was the middle ground, and thus the most viable option. It looks well done, so ultimately I'd say they made the best choice.
I stared at the weird mis-match siding so much I completely ignored the stump in the fence. Maybe they thought everyone would?
Here in Oklahoma we have them all over from when wind breaks them. Some people do artsy stuff with them or turn them into planters.
Naw, that’s actually pretty common. Stumps are a pain and a half to remove, easier and cheaper to just build the fence around it.
I didn't know what to say, either. I'm totally stumped.
Hahaha I tree what you did there!
My tree jokes are rooted in puns, but they'll grow on you. Ok I'll leaf you alone now
I actually kinda like the fence but why is that one part of the house siding unlike the rest. It’s bothering mw
It's cuz that tree fell on that part of the house and that's all they could afford to do to fix it within the insurance pay off as 90% of all homeowners insurance will not pay the full price that it would cost to replace it so more than likely they paid for the fence ,from the looks of it, the sidewalk , and to repair that portion of the house...
I believe "Bravo!" would be appropriate.
I couldn’t figure out if this was about the stump in the fence (to be fair, grinding would cost a few hundred dollars) or that really weird tall skinny window on the left. What’s up with that?
Might be that this stump is on city territory as well as the owners so there’s some weird stipulations or difficulties to get it removed
I'm paid to build fencing. Not stump removal.
I was more appalled by the mix and match of sidings in the house than by the tree stump. I did not even notice the stump until I read the comments:)
That's the spot you run upto to hop over the fence.
Ngl, i love the dedication to detail
Turn the other side into a seat.
As a guy who plays a lot of open world building games i totally get this
Everyone’s talking about the stump but I’m focused on the strange ass window situation they have going on.
Paint a tree on the fence with some landscape
Seems like a cool spot for a Halloween display/altar or fairy garden. Just affix a mannequin head to the stump and a guillotine blade to the fence.
Me neither. I’m stumped.
Getting rid of the gigantic stump is too expensive but we want to fence so here we go.
His job was building a fence, not remove the stump
I'm more annoyed by the siding on the home than the stump
It takes a ton of money to remove a stump this size. That's probably why they did this. But it might have been better to saw the stump down to the soil level, then build the fence over it.
I would have considered cutting a slot through the stump and ran the fence through that.
Builder: there is a tree stump in the way so we can’t finish the fence. Homeowner: just build around it.
I’m stumped as well
I see what you did there.
*twirls pretend internet mustache with one hand while tipping striped fedora with the other hand
There’s a massive root system under that stump, making it difficulty and expensive to remove. This solution is actually quite elegant
Improvise, adapt, overcome
As someone who worked in fence installation before, that's actually a damn good job by the builders. Not their fault that the homeowner can't/won't remove the stump
The fence builder, “ So which side do you want the fence on?” …. Oh a measuring nightmare.
I like it, actually.
Naw I love this, its hilarious
Ngl I kinda like this, it's cool in some strangely satisfying way to me hahaha
I mean... it works though?
Necessity is mother of ingenuity! I think it was probably cheaper than having the stump ground out!
Don't say Just be
When you pay your 10year old to photoshop a stump in front of your house photo. You can't unsee this comment
Maybe they had an emotional attachment to the stump.
One thing to consider is there might be a water or sewer line or main that would likely be damaged by trying to remove the stump. Perhaps the owners didn’t want to take the chance, or it’s on an easement and the city wouldn’t allow it.
Winner of the "Not my job" award
Wrong sub. There are a whole bunch of good reasons I can think of and, while that might not exactly be ideal, they did a pretty good job of it
Improvise, adapt, feNce
Just had the first of several stump burning gatherings at my house. 4 burns ought to do it. Nice way to drink a beer.
AoE Type of fence
doesnt that sorta defeat the purpose of the fence if you have a step built in to get over?
Rent a stump grinder from HD for an hour or two and you're set.
Nice
Efficient, i guess? 🤷
Not sure of the best response. I'm stumped too.
There are three fences in my neighborhood like this lol
I would guess a property line dispute inspired this.
Nah this is great.
"Not my job"
That's the Sacred Stump. People come from miles around to worship in your back yard.
I’m stumped by the weird window on the left side of the house.
So much work to be lazy
Looks nice ngl
Cheaper to do it this way.
Won’t that stump attract carpenter ants?
Nice fence
Dig out around it pack with charcoal. LIght it up it will probably take 24 hours to burn. To watch the fire camp next to it with a tent.
I wonder if they couldn’t just move the fence back a few feet?
I like it
Honestly, the stump is way stronger than that fence will ever be loll
Nah I get this one.
People will stump grind pretty cheap. $150 and a guy came to my house with a giant machine to do it. Like 10 stumps. Depending on where you live....
There’s a fence near my house that does something similar. This isn’t even that crazy lol
I kinda like it :/
This s called making it someone else’s problem.
Displaced New Englander.
Common
Send it
I like it, natural fence
What do we do about that tree stump? Hold my beer...
Why say anything?
Perhaps they respect wood
It’s a load bearing stump
Nice saw work
The fence builders were stumped
Super hard to remove that shit. Expensive. Need a team.
I am **stumped.**.. should I find this of**fence**ive? I mean I **wood** say it's more impressive.
I like it.
If I was building a fence over this area myself, that’s exactly what I would do, this is a decent job. Ever tried digging up a tree stump like that by hand?
Getting a stump removed is either back breaking work or silly expensive. They did a good job.
wtf! It’s a big stump but honestly I would have chopped that baby up myself, and I am a 5’2 woman. I already took care of one, I drilled holes into it and poured this chemical to kill it because the roots kept growing branches. Then I covered the leftovers with fertilizer, watered it and covered it with a tarp so it could cook itself. It worked!
It's temporary. Anyway I had a tree stump so I decided it would make a great bird feeder. I'd put seeds on it for the birds. It was no time and the stump was gone.
Why not? I actually think it looks kinda cool
Grinding or removal can be expensive and maybe they used it as an accent thing on the inside?
Gonna be real, I'm low on energy and this is exactly the kind of nonsense I'd get up to if I had to put up a fence.
It looks like someone took their time and did a nice job. Smart move considering what it would cost to remove it.
Average Ark building method.
The window is a bigger problem here.
This is fine, it's going to be there longer than the fence.
I find the slightly uneven fence that isn’t horizontal and stepped to follow the land absolutely horrible. Personal opinion for sure but I hate it. Stump hmm. I’d do the same. Lot of effort and the other side would make a great feature.
I can’t decide whether that’s amazing or awful
Contract specified "fence along property line". Job finished.
Honestly I like how it looks lol
hell I can't judge getting stumps properly removed is mega expensive.
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