Dump a gallon of bleach on it??? Its cheap enough.

 

You can always burn the stump. Use a 1" wood boring drill bit at least 5 inches long and drill holes across the top of the stump. soak the stump with kerosene for several days till it is well soaked. Stack kindling and or charcoal on top and light it up. You may need to do this more than once depending on the size of the stump.

 

Might burn the fence.

 

True. If that's an issue the only other alternative is to call a tree service that has a stump grinder or rent one. Usually the stink is from a fungus that grows in the dead wood. Soaking the stump with a copper fungicide might take care of the smell.

 

It might be due to fermenting sugars from the sap. It may have sap still running in it if you cut it in the fall and it went dormant soon after. It takes a stump a while to die after the tree is cut. The sap may have started to run after it came out of dormancy. If that is the case, the stump and remaining roots should die soon on it's own as long as you kill all sprouts that come up. Then the odor will be gone.

 

Have you tried [wait for it!..]

STUMP REMOVER?

[aka potassium nitrate] Or go find some bracket fungi & spread their spores on the stump so they can do their thing.

 

I watched a video on You Tube showing the use of a steel barrel with both ends removed and placed over the stump, fed with firewood until it burnt the stump away.

 

Since you seem adverse to the use of dynamite, my favorite solution.

KNO3


Salt Peter

Potassium Nitrate.


Drill holes. Pour in the KNO3 powder. Wait.

It works. It'll make any stump rot quickly.


Or, you could sharpen your shovel and dig it out.

 

Or, you could sharpen your shovel and dig it out.

I'd rather cut my own foot off, with no anesthesia, and using a rusty hacksaw, than dig out another stump. :bonk:

 

Lime dust is an option - stuff they use to cover dead bodie, outhouses. If possible, add more soil on top of the rooted stump.

 

Remember he’s got a dog and a lot of this stuff is toxic

 

Remember he's got a dog and a lot of this stuff is toxic

KNO3 is not toxic.

It does, however, make a great oxidizer.

 

Dump half a bag of garden lime on it.

Otherwise - try a couple coffee cans of 10-10-10 fertilizer.

Either way it will help it rot faster.

 

Use some stump killer as it will re-sprout according to this~ http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/norway-maple-makes-most-hated-plants-list.html

 

I like boom boom, so i would go with the explosive. But chances are you are a nice neighbor and wont do it.

If it is too close to a fence to burn, and maybe fire danger, you arent left with many options.

 

This is one way if you can remove a section of your fence.

 

Old Spice 1917