Stump grinding

Haha, for some reason I thought the title of the thread sounded rude I'm no help sorry!

Where's Rosie (Rosieh)? He husband's an aborist, she'd know I can't help, sorry.

I so had to look too out of curiousity...at first I thought was referring to an amputee....how terrible.

With ours we just dug down a little bit and attacked it with an axe, it was a great workout though not everyones cuppatea

hmm i'm not sure Dh works for the local council in the parks dept i know though di it but if have no idea how much they charge. I would say though that if you only have a couple it would be cheaper to get it done then to hire one for a day and do it yourself.

Don't stump grinders just grind the stump down so that you can put dirt overtop. I didn't think they took out the massive roots etc?? We had a massive pohtukawa tree that the previous owners totally butchered and it was half dead. Diameter of the stump was pretty close to a metre.

All we did was dug down a bit, attacked it with an axe to get rid of the main stump and found the biggest roots that went out from the trunk and used a hoe to pull them up and cut them. We didn't get all the roots but got rid of some of the massive ones.

lol if you do it just do it in bits. Dig down and have a go with the axe, have a rest and go do something else and then go finish the stump. Have a rest and maybe the next day go attack the roots. You only really need to get rid of the really big ones if you wanna replant. If my mum was doing it shes a mad woman and would have it done in a few hours but it takes us a couple of days cause we don't have that kinda stamina either

Yeah I know! We have a cabbage tree we have to dig out and they are hideous things cause the trunk goes down soooo far

Hi everyone!!1

We have a stump grinder (very big 30HP self-drive etc, the DH's go ooohh and start drooling!!!)

Where abouts in NZ are you, if your in Waikato DH can come and give you a quote. Otherwise it is $150 a hour but it gets through a massive massive stump in a hour.

We go down to approx 30cm below the soil and will get most of the main roots, the ones that are left arnt a major unless you are wanting to put in foundations etc.

You will need to (regardless of who or what stumpgrinds it) remove all the stumpgrindings and replace them with soil, (if you are wanting to replant anything there) as for some reason nothing seems to grow in the stumpgrinding mixture.

Hope that helps.....

Hi rosie, unfortunatey we are in Wellington, not Waikato, would have been great to help out a family on here by sending some business their way.

I'd say it is probably about 700mm diameter. We don't want to plant exactly on top of it, almost on either side really. I can't understand why the previous owners butchered the tree in the first place, it can't have blocked any sun but did block the neighbours, now we can see straight into each others kitchens. My plan is to remove the remains of the plum tree and then plant three trees along the fence line to screen them out (just need to find some fast growing, hopefully evergreen trees).

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