My gardening day is not a fun one. Digging a 10 inch dia stump out of the middle of my spot for a high tunnel. Roots are 3-6 inches in dia and criss cross. Giving up on the axe and will put the old chain on the saw and hack away, sharpen chain, hack some more - repeat as needed. Then finally hook some logging chain to it and yank with the truck.
There are very few problems in life that cannot be solved with the proper application of explosives.