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Read articles →This is a personal, warts-and-all property vlog of removing driveway-side stumps with a backhoe, not a polished how-to. Nick narrates real-time mistakes: cutting too deep with a chainsaw, dulling chains, misjudged angles, and eventually just ripping stumps out with the backhoe instead. One stump takes about two hours to dig, shown with a hole deeper than he is tall. Useful for owners curious about realistic stump-removal struggles rather than a clean technique demo.
Posted by the Nic Ames channel, an owner documenting hands-on work and mistakes on his own property rather than a polished instructional source.
It varies. One smaller stump took about an hour, while a bigger stump along the driveway took about two hours to dig out.
The video shows this is hard on chainsaws and dulls chains quickly, with one chain only lasting through two stumps.
The narrator plunged too deep, cut at too much of an angle, and left too much material in the middle, causing the stump to break apart instead of cutting cleanly.
