Watching this video, I'm impressed with myself. I was sixteen, in Spring of 1970. Completely by hand, I dug and chopped out a very large maple stump about half the size of yours for my elderly neighbor, Mrs. Johnson. It took me three days. I wanted to prove that I could do it. I shoveled under each root, and using an axe and a bow saw, I chopped out each root. The whole time, Mrs. Johnson complained about digging out a root in her lily bed, and that it was taking far too long. I'm not sure she was appreciating the enormity of the task. Every neighbor from the surrounding neighborhood, and member of my family (three siblings and both parents) came over to offer doubts and negativity. So I had too finish the job. I just wish I had the before-and-after pictures of my insanity.