Offgrid Organic Farmer
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... I have cut down a few trees myself for various reasons over the years and have usually just burned the stumps out to cleared the area. (FYI, you are not going to be able to pull a large tree stump out even with a full size farm tractor without a lot of digging and root chopping first - ask me how I know ) I guess I could buy a stump grinder or have someone do it, or rent a good size dozer or BH, but it's easy enough to burn them out for the few I've cut down. Just something else you'll need to decide on and deal with from time to time living in the county.
I see a lot of old farm tractors on the market, you can tell if they were used to stump pulling. The wheel around the hub will have stress fractures in it. Pulling stumps is extremely dangerous and it destroys the equipment.
The site-work contractor who put in my driveway offered to give me a quote to clear and level out as much of my land as I wanted to pay for. His thought is to bring in dozers, excavators and explosives. My land includes some peat bog swamp. His idea is to push all the stumps into the swamp and bury them. He swears that he has done this many times in the past.
Since I moved to this state, I have watched what people try to do with their stumps. Burying may actually be the fastest and cheapest method. But I think that over the next 20-years you would have sinkholes opening everywhere.