Frillylily said: It makes sense if it is in a location to do that. Most of the time a tree is cut because it is in the way of construction or planting new things after it died ect, and you have to get the stump out.
In which case... Leave the tree attached to the stump...
It's incredibly difficult to dig out a stump after the tree has been cut down...
It's usually very easy to take out the stump when the entire tree is there to provide some leverage...
Of course... you maybe couldn't get heavy equipment in there next to a house to push over a tree... Although... I did once ask the backhoe operator to take down a large pine next to my house... and wasn't nothing to it.
But... those smaller stumps... I can usually take them out with a mattock, shovel and pry bar... or attach a chain to my truck and pull them out after digging around tree / shrub and cutting through the laterals ... but you have to leave the entire plant attached! Cut it down first... at the peril of living with the stump...
One time I tore up my 4 wheel drive trying to take out a stump after some idiot cut the tree first... Not going to do that again... If they cut the tree down before calling me? The answer is 'no'.
