Grinding a blown over stump

[Ingram306]

So I have gotten a lot of jobs cleaning up after the storm and a lot of them are invoking uprooted stumps. For the most part the skid steer does the truck and flips them back into place. I have a few that just won't go back down. I have gotten them uprighted, they are just sitting way up above grade. Any tips or tricks? Or am I just going to have to spend an entire day grinding these? Thanks. -Chris

 

[tomtrees58]

yup it takes all day

 

[Ingram306]

Tom can i sub them out to you? Lets say $100 each? Lol

 

[Tundra Man Mike]

I did a cottonwood after the last windstorm. It was 12' high before the trunk was removed. It went about halfway back in the hole. No rocks around. It only took a few minutes of grinding before it started slumping down. When it was standing up, I cut the stump as close as I could to lower the counterweight. I notched both sides as high and deep as I could, then hit the middle, then the connecting roots. I think I was loaded up after 3 hours.

 

[tomtrees58]

i just did a big ash 6 hrs 1500.00 cash

 

[OLD MAN GRINDER]

i just did a big ash 6 hrs 1500.00 cash

Dang, think i'll hook up and head for long island, at those rates i could really retire instead of being semi-retired LOL...:msp_biggrin:

Bob.....

 

[tomtrees58]

Dang, think i'll hook up and head for long island, at those rates i could really retire instead of being semi-retired LOL...:msp_biggrin:

Bob.....

:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[brushbandit]

i just did a big ash 6 hrs 1500.00 cash

I'm moving to Long Island, that's good money. We grind out a lot of upturns, not that bad. Once you grind out the stump itself the roots are no longer attached to the stump or the ground so they just kind of fall off. We knock the dirt off of them with a mattock. Roots pull out, dirt and grindings back into the hole. You have to use a big grinder though.

 

[tomtrees58]

1500 to 2000 a day is the normal charge its new york yup dot ever wear all the dumps are full just fun

 

[tomtrees58]

just sold another stump total is 31' of grinding 1900.00 cash i will post some picks wen i do the job