Goodbye stump, hello concrete!
There once was a bad tree.It had to go. So I played arborist with a chainsaw, and there was nothing but a stump left.
anyways - that stump was there for ages. It had chain link fence in it, so i couldn’t just use the chainsaw on it. 
(seen here in a pic from 2007)Fast forward a couple years. I got the great idea to move the back fence in a bit, and carve out a place for the trash cans to sit where they would be on my property, but accessible to the trash men. How do you remove a stump? Kerosene. Charcoal briquettes, and scrap wood to burn as a fuel source. 
After a couple weeks of lighting everything on fire every night - the stump was gone. So I poured the concrete, laid the brick pavers on top - and voila! 
The classiest trash can pad in the neighborhood.