There was a very nice little tree just behind the house outside the living room. It died back and then reemerged from the suckers that grew out of the old stump. That was good for a couple years and then last winter's very cold winter took its toll. I trimmed off the dead limbs and most of the trunk and a few days back Pat and I shoveled out all of the rock from around the stump. Then I used the new Yukon XL to pull the stump out. It surprisingly came out very easy. This afternoon I put in 10 bags, 40 lbs. to the bag, of black dirt to fill up the hole and even it all out. Then I seeded it and applied one more very thin layer of dirt. It is getting wet down by the sprinkler system right now and will hopefully sprout new grass real soon. The following pictures will cover all the steps.
This is a picture of the tree when it was the nicest. This picture was taken during the spring of our first full year in the house. The dirt in the background is where there was a basketball court that we had removed and then seeded it to grass. The rock around the tree was 4 to 6 inches deep.
This is what it looked like after we removed the rock and I pulled out the stump. That nice green grass in the upper background is where the basketball court was in the earlier picture.
This is a picture of what the spot looks like now. It will soon be nice and green also we hope.
Patrick
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