stump grinding
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Isaac-1
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Around here it is $75 per stump, I don't know about quantity discounts though as the most I have ever had done at one time was 2 or 3.
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SteelHorseHD
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Go rent a stump grinder for $250 and grind them yourself. They are fairly easy to run.
Highbeam
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Be sure to get a big grinder that is not manual. You want hydraulic drive, sweep, and vertical. Nothing with handles that resembles a rototiller.
SteelHorseHD
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X2! I forgot to mention that.
Long haul
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I used to charge $100 an hour when I had a 3 point mounted unit on my tractor. I could average 3 stumps an hour for ones that where 2ft across with it.
ddawg16
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Depending on how big they are, $75/stump is not that bad....I had one taken out and it cost me about $150....took the guys a little over an hour...factor in travel time...well...you can't expect them to work for free....
If you have ever watched one being ground....lets just say that it's major carnaige....and I would not want to get in the way....
If you have ever watched one being ground....lets just say that it's major carnaige....and I would not want to get in the way....
lotsoftools
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I had about 35 trees cut down and was left with the stumps. I rented a big stump grinder for about $300 and did them over a weekend. The rental place only charged a one day rate for a whole weekend rental since they are only open Mon-Fri.
GarageEnvy
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I had bid ranging from $85 to $350 for a couple of Bradford Pear and Mulberry stumps that were 2'+ with a lot of surface roots. The local rental units ****. I spent about 24 hours over 3 days grinding on 4 stumps with a manual one. It was more like a stump sander. The hydraulic sweeping head units are not available for rental locally but sure make quick work of a stump. The $85 guy who did my last stump was probably a lot cheaper because he was working in a neighbor's yard. If you catch one in the area, the price tends to be a lot cheaper. That stump was on top of my sewer line, next to the house, pushing up a sprinkler line and close to my gas line. The contractor missed everything and was done in an hour. That cured me of ever grinding another stump.
crewchief888
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couple years ago i took down a 28" + diameter apple tree from my back yard, and took out a couple of large PITA mulberrys.
stump grinder guy charged $45 for all 3
i'm guessing it helped having the old lady hire him......
then rented a chipper for $130 and took care of all the smaller limbs up to 6"
stump grinder guy charged $45 for all 3
i'm guessing it helped having the old lady hire him......
then rented a chipper for $130 and took care of all the smaller limbs up to 6"
I just cut a bunch of trees and signed contract for 48x44x16 garage. The guy was doing a site inspection for grade and mentioned he had a buddy in the area doing trees and if I wanted I could give him a call. He came out 3 hours later and took us 3 hours to grind and clean up 27 stumps. $1,800 or $66 per stump. I had several that were 3' across. i raked them up and he picked them up with loader. He had the biggest grinder you could buy and made very short work of it and did an excellent job. Well worth my time and money. Local rental placed would have beat me to death with their cheap manual equipment. Plus I could have spent a full day just cleaning up the shavings left behind. Now i get to add some lime and little top soil.
Small excavator couldnt have touched some of these plus would have left huge holes in the yard....
man that was quick, from asking about grinding to having them done in one day. I had a willow about 4' in diameter ground out. Well, what was left of it after I started burning it out. Once he started grinding it, it fanned the coals and started to burn again. 40 bucks well spent.
olytdi
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I'll be gringing a 4X5 ft stump on the 30th. Plan on renting a Vermeer 252 hydraulic for $200 for the day. Self propelled, with hyd sweep, etc. Comes on a trailer. Anyone familiar with this tool?
5lima30
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Paid $160 to have 4 ground (2 were mine and 2 were my neighbors).
It was a weird day... Got up and expected to go to work late. Builder wanted to look at site. He said I needed to bring grade down 2'. I call my excavator that has done alot of work for me and he said he could come out in 20 min. Lives close and just drove his loader to the site. 2 hours he got me fixed up. Couldnt turn him down cause i may not get him back for a week or more. Shortly after he leaves stump grinder pulls in and said he was about 2 hours from finishing up other job locally and gave me a price to take out all 27. I got him down to $1800 after i told i would help him clean up. 3 hours later its done. usually takes weeks to get anything done. most of these guys are busy all the time. just good timing on my part i guess and glad to have it done especially after 30+ hours of cleaning up tree tops and cutting firewood loggers left behind.
Now i get to start my build thread soonSounds like a very productive day. I'll be waiting on the build thread.
http://www.toro.com/en-ca/Professio...-Utility/Tree-Care/Pages/Model.aspx?pid=23210
i rented one like this, it was freakin sweet!
i rented one like this, it was freakin sweet!
Jagmandave
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I rented one of those Vermeer units too, and it worked a treat......
SteelHorseHD
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Yup, that's the one I used. It worked like a dream! I'll be renting it again this fall to take out some more stumps.
olytdi
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Any idea how long a 4x5 ft stump (say a foot high) will take to grind? Can it be done in a half day?
merr6267
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Hey guys, I don't have specific info about running a Stump Grinder, but I did work for Vermeer for a while, and I thought that this little bit of info was pretty interesting and thought I'd pass it along.
1957
While testing a new stump cutter prototype, a Vermeer employee accidentally hits the wrong lever causing the cutting wheel to move horizontally across the stump. This mistake leads to the production of a top-of-the-line stump cutter design that is still being used today.
Yes, modern stump grinding happened by accident!
A little timeline of the history of Vermeer. It's still a lot like working for family there. I worked right next to a guy that had been there for 45 years. I'm pretty sure he's still working.
http://www2.vermeer.com/vermeer/LA/en/N/about_us/history
1957
While testing a new stump cutter prototype, a Vermeer employee accidentally hits the wrong lever causing the cutting wheel to move horizontally across the stump. This mistake leads to the production of a top-of-the-line stump cutter design that is still being used today.
Yes, modern stump grinding happened by accident!
A little timeline of the history of Vermeer. It's still a lot like working for family there. I worked right next to a guy that had been there for 45 years. I'm pretty sure he's still working.
http://www2.vermeer.com/vermeer/LA/en/N/about_us/history
Milton Shaw
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Years ago I rented a manual stump grinder when it was only about three weeks old. Very sharp teeth and very fast cutting. I did 27 stumps that day from Oak to Hickory and was not very tired after doing that. Went back two years later and rented it again and I think it still had the same teeth on it. Took forever to grind out one stump. Learned my lesson. Don't rent stump grinder without checking condition of teeth, sharp even makes a difference there. I think it had been used to grind concrete or rock. There was nothing close to a cutting edge on any of the teeth.
I have a bunch of stumps that need to come out. Can't wait to rent a grinder and just slaughter them to bits! It's 250 for the day here for one of the self propelled ones on a trailer. I should get a couple neighbors in on it and split the cost per stump.....
I was qouted 60$ a piece to remove the stumps from my property. I had about 30 that needed to come out. In the end I paid a man to remove them with a backhoe and backfill the holes. I didnt want any stump remenants under my new concrete floor.
Dave.R
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I had a neighbor get rid of a huge stump by boring a hole in the top and on in the side down low, and just had a smoldering fire on it. I don't know if the lower hole helped a lot with air or what but it was gone in a day or so, never really got burning high, just a slow smoldering fire.
Needless to say I thought it was clever.
Needless to say I thought it was clever.
If the holes connected, the veertical hole will act like a chimney and create a small draft and efficently burn up the stump. Around here people use use a 55 gallon drum (sans top & bottom) placed over the stump. Set up on a few bricks and it'll burn the stump in a fair fashion.
SteelHorseHD
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I don't think it would take long at all. The stumps I was grinding were pine but were probably 1 ft in diameter. I took them down as low as I could get them which was probably about a foot and a half below grade. They were only taking me about 15 minutes each. I bet it wouldn't take more than an hour depending on what kind of wood it is.
SteelHorseHD
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I forgot to add, if you have a chainsaw you might want to try and cut it as low as you can get it. It will save you ALOT of time to not have to grind through that extra foot.
olytdi
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Good to hear. Thanks!
HA! Thats for sure! Rented a ditcher once that had handles. Thing was bigger than the bed of a pick up truck. Handles were for decoration I guess. That thing would go wherever it wanted! Almost killed me. A gorilla couldn't move that thing by the handles!
Ign
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We rented this unit over the weekend for $130 after tax. Ground about 8 stumps all over the property. It takes longer than I thought but it still doesn't take THAT long.
I'd never handled one in person so I found it interesting; the cutting teeth just look like big indexable carbide inserts
You can't see a damn thing as the operator so it's really nice to have a spotter.
None of our stumps were that large. I'd say the one in this pic was the biggest. Cedar (pictured) takes longer than pinion, not surprisingly.
We rented this unit over the weekend for $130 after tax. Ground about 8 stumps all over the property. It takes longer than I thought but it still doesn't take THAT long.
I'd never handled one in person so I found it interesting; the cutting teeth just look like big indexable carbide inserts
You can't see a damn thing as the operator so it's really nice to have a spotter.
None of our stumps were that large. I'd say the one in this pic was the biggest. Cedar (pictured) takes longer than pinion, not surprisingly.
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Rewind97
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Last time I had stumps ground, if you had multiple stumps it was $50 for the first one and $10 for each additional stump.
I'll also mention if you have stumps ground do not leave the shavings in the hole, rake them out and fill with dirt. If you don't you'll forever have a sink hole there as the shavings continue to rot.
I'll also mention if you have stumps ground do not leave the shavings in the hole, rake them out and fill with dirt. If you don't you'll forever have a sink hole there as the shavings continue to rot.
Randy in Maine
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Around here they normally haul them off to a "gravel pit guy" who has a license to take about an acre of them. I think they charged me about $50 for a 10 yard dump truck with them, but you don't get many stumps in a dump truck.
Once a year or so the gravel pit guy has a big tub grinder come in and grind them all up for "erosion control mulch" that they sell to be used in place of/or with silt fence on construction jobs. $12 a yard the last time I bought some.
Once a year or so the gravel pit guy has a big tub grinder come in and grind them all up for "erosion control mulch" that they sell to be used in place of/or with silt fence on construction jobs. $12 a yard the last time I bought some.