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Burning the roots is an interesting option

Rot is good help to get rid of stumps. Fungus too. I had a large stump that was taking ages to rot, I had chain sawed as much I could to dig in to help rotting, but the big roots were a lasting trouble deep under pillars of a gate. Then some mushrooms came in and speeded up the root decay eating the...

I think it takes more roots cut, deeper underground.
We extracted a stump of a tree cut high to have good leverage pulling with a 2 tons come-along.
The game was, digging and cutting the roots under tension. That was hard work before the trunck began to lean.

To help persuade your tree, how about digging to weaken its roots. Being dead, I doubt it will give under the strap pulling. May be it will give if the ground is soft enough, weakening at the roots might help especially if they don't run deep underground. Depends of trees. Some have a flat root syst...

Steel cables when they snap are deadly because of a devastating whip effect. A lot of stored energy sudden release. Snapping ropes, could hurt too. Straps are elastic but quite safe. I have seen pros using some special tow strap that pulls smoothly with a built in trick to take slack back. Towing wi...

To get unstuck from mud, I had success with a tarp that happened to be abandoned there.
Raising the stuck wheel to fit the tarp under, then backing in the same wheel tracks. Going gently the wheel did not dig deeper.
A messy crummy tarp can save the day.

A two tons "come along" is a handy tool. I have used it to pull out my boat at places with terrible boat launches if any. Some 1200 pounds with it's trailer to drag out of sand and mud. For long reaches, I use a steel cable with much care, because in case it breaks it is deadly. A chain is...

From my limited experience at cutting down trees. They mostly fall the way they want to. Ropes to persuade them to fall another side is likely bound to failure. It all depends of the side they have more weight and the side they lean too. This must be carefully inspected. Dangerous ones are those whe...

Calibration to take care of Vbe mismatch. I understand, it would be nice to have it automatic, transparent to the user. However you want the system to calibrate when all has been set and temperature stable and you do not want the system to go into calibration while recording. I doubt it can be user ...

Funny JR I was thinking of DPOTs too and having the DPOTs trim the input error as closely as possible and then, once trimmed,not reactivate until the input error grew outside a predefined window. A calibration procedure ? Initiated by the user and a warning led to tell when out of window. I thought...