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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Who grinds stumps? My German Cheap Gene won't allow me too. I make stump covers over stumps. Stump covers consist of landscape timbers, dirt and flowers. Well as I post earlier the cheap landscape rotted away, so today I dug up 3 flower beds. Only one stump was left and it was like cork. The other 2 beds had no signs of a stump. The flowers were root bound so much so I couldn't lift them. I used the terramite's front bucket to move the flowers to a mound of dirt at the mulch pile and dumped them so the dirt would fall off. I filled the bed of my work truck with flowers to transplant in gravel pit. Looks like a weeks work ahead.
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I'm with you, George. I can't believe what people will pay to have a stump shredded. If it's not in the and has to be immediately removed I also camouflage them and let them rot naturally.
 
Bob, I paid one time to have a stump ground and for years I filled the stump hole with dirt as it rotted. Now I cover with dirt. I know when the stump is gone because after a good rain, the dirt will settle.

Cheap George.
 
One of our local rental stores had a walk-behind on tracks with a Kohler V-twin. Had a grinder wheel that you could swing left and right and up and down hydraulically. I did a huge willow stump with it.

The machine had its own trailer.
 

Leaving stumps, is like saying "I like breaking expensive pieces of equipment". I dig them out with a backhoe most of the time but I've got a few white oak stumps that are over 10 years old that are still too big and solid to dig without leaving a hole half as big as my house. I'm not sure how long a white oak or hickory stump would last, I've seen some over 25 years.
 
About 12 years or about as long as today's
cheap landscape timbers lasted.

My last stump was about 5 ft in diamerter. I
overed with dirt and then it got grass
seeds.
 
Stump grinders are for the city"I want it and I want it now" group of people. I used to work for a company who built all sizes of them . never impressed me. The remote control track models with blade on front made good drive way snow plows tho. You could plow from your kitchen window once you learned it.
 
When I take down trees, I dig around the roots when the ground is soft and then pull the tree over to rip out most of the stump as the tree falls.
 
That doesn't work well when a tree has to come down in pieces next to buildings. I hire tree trimmers to take my trees down. I know 6 people that have been killed cutting trees down. One guy was a professional logger.
 
When the stump is in the middle of your yard, and you didn't want to mow around the %$#@ tree in the first place, you sure as heck don't want to mow around some %$#@ raised flower bed either.

If you've got the equipment to dig it out yourself and don't mind tearing a hole the size of a Volkswagen in your lawn and having the place look like a war-torn third world country for the rest of the summer, more power to ya.

A stump grinder will take care of the problem in a few minutes, for a lot less than hiring a backhoe, and leaving minimal damage to the lawn. Just a hole about the size of the diameter of the tree trunk. If you clean up the chips and fill the hole with dirt there's minimal settling.
 
OK you dig a big stump out, then what? Where are you going to put it. Where are you going to get the dirt? A raised 8 sided flower bed isn't the same as going around a smaller tree and getting smacked with branches.

I had a cherry tree blow down exposing the roots. I dug it out, cut all the roots. The roots ball was about 15 ft in diameter. A man with a large skidder couldn't even lift it. I used my backhoe and dug the largest hole in front of the root ball as I could make then rolled the mess upside down and covered it with dirt.

The way I see it, God put roots in the ground, they can rot there too.

A stump grinder won't fix the problem, when the roots under ground rot, then you will be filling the hole every year.

I prefer stump covers, you can pay to have yours ground. I'm too cheap.
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