Massive amount of liquid gushing from stump

[rumatt]

Today's I decided to attack a stump in my yard. All it a sudden brown liquid starts shooting out my clutch cover. I pulled the saw out and water came gushing out. It wasn't as extreme as this video (not my video!) but it was a similarly shocking amount of liquid.

It was particularly surprising because the damn stump was only about 2 feet tall and the top looked healthy and was cleanly cut. Was this sap pressurized and being pumped up from the ground? Wtf? The tree was taken down about a year ago. I thought it was a white oak but I may be wrong.

By the time I went and got my camera the flow has mostly stopped. But here's a pic of it flowing at the end. (I was noodling down because it was about 2'x5').

 

[dahmer]

Never seen anything like that.

 

[Nutball]

How about a zoomed out picture? Looks like a vertical cut in a stump?

 

[rumatt]

How about a zoomed out picture? Looks like a vertical cut in a stump?

Its dark now so can't take a pic...

But I edited the post to explain.. "I was noodling down because the stump is about 2'x5' "

I tried taking a slice of one half the stump after that but I think that sticky water dulled my chain. I was throwing dust and the saw wouldn't bite. And it was getting dark and I was cranky so I quit.

I'll continue tomorrow and see what it looks like inside.

 

[RandyMac]

 

[USMC615]

Never seen nothing like that before.

 

[rumatt]

Yes! It was like that!

I can see it with a full tree. Sap or water draining out from the top. But I was cutting a stump!

 

[huskihl]

Yes! It was like that!

I can see it with a full tree. Sap draining out the top. But I was cutting a stump!

Its not sap draining out. There's a crotch in the tree that's hollowed out and it's full of rain water.

Never seen it in a stump like you're talking though. Pretty cool

 

[rumatt]

Thr stump was indeed a former crotch.

 

[andyshine77]

Yeah it's ground water that is under pressure, it gets forced up the hollow trunk. I've had it happen here and there, but nothing like that. We have a lot of natural springs in the area so it's probably a little more common where there's a lot of groundwater closer to the surface.

 

[huskyboy]

I’ve cut and seen plenty trees out in the log woods this year that had water or sap pouring out of them. The water was usually out of big chitty soft maples that had hollowed. The sap was usually out of a couple big black oaks that we hit some sort of a “vein” in them boxing them out to fell and a bit of sap came out. Completely solid trees. Strange. Must be the time of year or something. Elm is also another that can be quite “soggy”. You can sure feel a saw load up when you hit the water/sap.

 

[Al Smith]

I've seen water gush from big hollow oaks. Stink.my word worse than a backed up sewer .

 

[ABarrick]

Had one stump like that last fall. 4’ tall by 3’ diameter red oak. I dropped the tree a few weeks beforehand. I usually plunge cut stumps and then walk around to help avoid hitting rocks and junk around the outside. I knelt down and about half way into the bore cut on a 2’ bar water started gushing out and wet saw chips plastered the inside of my leg. Happened so fast and til I realized what was going on I was a mess. I’d bet at least a gallon of water and wet sawdust dumped on me and several more ran out after I pulled the saw out and let it drain for awhile. That was the first time I’d ever had that happen and hopefully the last.

 

[sawmikaze]

I've seen it multiple times.

 

[Nutball]

It would be fun to blow up a water filled stump with electricity like they do watermelons with a huge lot of ultra high voltage capacitors

 

[Al Smith]

That old red oak was the damnest thing I think I've seen .Great big fat thing about 4 feet in diameter but only about 50-60 feet tall .The wind blew the entire top out on top of a house .My bud,a trimmer removed the top and it didn't as much as tear a shingle ,no damage at all . I used a Mac 125 with the bar that's on my saw in the avatar 48" .About 12" in the water gurgled out .It had a hollow spot 2 feet in diameter and 10- 12 feet up . I had a picture on one of my hard drives .

 

[Czed]

Box elder and pine tree's are squirters
Seen a few maple and ash with multiple limbs
Hold water.

 

[blacksmith]

I've seen that a couple of times but for different reasons. 3 times was what @huskihl mentioned about crotch holding water the tree's were a little hollow and rotted and filled with water.

One time on an elm tree that me and @Scotty Overkill cut down, it was about 18" in diameter healthy and solid. After it fell to the ground and we shut off the saw we could hear a hissing sound couldn't figure out where it was coming from until I looked at the stump.

I pointed to the stump and it water was boiling out of the stump! It was crazy that's the only time that I ever saw that!