Static Looping With Main

I have written a small program that creates a loop that only fails to continue once we reach a StackOverflowError exception. It looks just like:

class MyFirstApp {
static int counter;
public static void main(String[] args) {
counter++;
System.out.println(counter + " in main.");
roundAbout();
}

public static void roundAbout() {
counter++;
System.out.println(counter + " in roundAbout.");
main( new String[0] );
}
}

The idea of the program is to go between each method without using an object. Each time the method is entered the static int counter variable is incremented and outputted along with its respective loop. The loop does, however, fail eventually.

By calling the between the methods we build a tower of stack frames that eventually topples. The number of times this runs before the StackOverflowError occurs varies, though. Sometimes I get 6553, 6554 or something else close to these values.

Is there a way to pop a method of the stack or clear part of the stack so I can keep this going? I don't know where I would use this but it would be nice to know.