Stumped

When we first moved here, there were six very, very large old tress that were hanging over the house.
Our  insurance carrier told us all the trees had to come down. So right after we moved in, they did! We couldn't afford to have a stump grinder come in for all of them, so the stumps stayed and we just usually decorated them with planters. Little by little hubby has taken some of them out. Last week he started to dig out the biggest one:

 Along with the backhoe, these are the only tools he used:

 It's a big 'un!

 That Yanmar was the best investment we ever made:

 Here is Hubby chopping away at the roots:

 The stump was LOADED with ants!

He'll work on it some more this week. We're thinking about making that spot into a nice fire pit area.

We have enough stone blocks to even have a seating area!