HELP - How to rot away a tree stump

[yabbadoo]

I have a Hazel tree stump.It's at least 30 years old, and the base is at
least 30 trees all fused together in a mass, which is about a metre
diameter.

Is there a way to rot this away (in a reasonable time span, months rather
than years?)

So far - I've dug a trench around and below the boll mass, cut away all the
side roots, and tried burning the boll from underneath - no joy. Over the
decades, pebbles/stones have become trapped between the trunks and fused in,
so chainsaw is not an option, (tried it, ruined the blade).

I've heard of a "trunk cutter" but access to the stump is limited, and I
fear the
aforementioned stones would preclude use of this equipment, anyway.

Ergo, only option seems to be to rot the thing away. How to do it ? Help
please ?

[Chris Hogg]

I don't think there's an easy answer. Most of the chemicals available
for adding to stumps are to kill them and stop re-growth. You could
try inoculating it with one of those mushroom kits (shitake?) that
grow on dead logs. Or go for a walk in the woods in Autumn and collect
some fruiting toadstools off rotting logs and smear them onto the
stump. Might speed up the decomposition.

--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net