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I’ve decided to have an old red maple tree cut down. It measures about 105 inches in circumference, 1 foot above grade [see attached photo].
The tree and stump-to-be sits on a hill that rises sharply from the street; I’ve had two arborists tell me that a stump grinder would have to be lifted up to the stump by a crane. The one estimate I’ve received so far to grind the stump is $1,200.
Assuming that the other estimates I will be getting are at or near that sum, and that I decide not to have the stump ground down, I have the following questions:
Do I have to worry about a lot of sucker trees sprouting up from the stump of a red maple?
If I wanted to have some fertilizer or other accelerator put into holes bored into the stump, is there a special drill that arborists use to bore such holes?
Would it make more sense to have the stump cut level, so that water would sit on it and presumably help the stump rot, or cut flush to the slope of the hill, in which case there would be less stump to rot?
Would it be helpful if I removed the rocks and did some digging near the base of the tree before the grinding began, or is that part of the arborist’s job?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this
I’ve decided to have an old red maple tree cut down. It measures about 105 inches in circumference, 1 foot above grade [see attached photo].
The tree and stump-to-be sits on a hill that rises sharply from the street; I’ve had two arborists tell me that a stump grinder would have to be lifted up to the stump by a crane. The one estimate I’ve received so far to grind the stump is $1,200.
Assuming that the other estimates I will be getting are at or near that sum, and that I decide not to have the stump ground down, I have the following questions:
Do I have to worry about a lot of sucker trees sprouting up from the stump of a red maple?
If I wanted to have some fertilizer or other accelerator put into holes bored into the stump, is there a special drill that arborists use to bore such holes?
Would it make more sense to have the stump cut level, so that water would sit on it and presumably help the stump rot, or cut flush to the slope of the hill, in which case there would be less stump to rot?
Would it be helpful if I removed the rocks and did some digging near the base of the tree before the grinding began, or is that part of the arborist’s job?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this