My son is clearing land and needed some rather large stumps removed.
He called in a self-loading log truck. The logger grabbed the stumps with his grapple and pulled them up out of the ground. 10-20 feet of the root system came up with the stumps.
He even gave the stumps a good shake so that all the dirt fell off of them and is saved.
Neatest thing to watch. Sure beats a stump grinder.