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Stump Grinding as a way of life


theNakedApiarist
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Hello

 

From reading around the forums, I see that some people seem to do stump grinding only. The stumpbusters franchises, for example.

 

Is this right, that folks make a living only grinding stumps, or they doing wider arb work, and maybe marketing themselves as stump grinders separately from their other work? Are there enough stumpgrinding jobs done that people have work every day?

 

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Theres a few doing it. The likes of stumpbusters however started up in the early days when stump grinders weren't quite as accessible as they are now. I think you'd be hard pushed to fill a week stump grinding as a new start. I suppose a lot will depend on your area though.

 

Stefan on here(whose posts I have no doubt you have read) seems to be doing ok out of it in a relatively short time.

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Do arb guys and girls tend to have their own stump grinders, or hire them? Or hire someone who comes and does the grinding on their behalf? I presume that the machines take quite a bit of looking after? Servicing, and cleaning off fungal spores and the like? I wonder if folks like to subcontract stump grinding so they don't fill their days servicing hydraulic machines.

 

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Do arb guys and girls tend to have their own stump grinders, or hire them? Or hire someone who comes and does the grinding on their behalf? I presume that the machines take quite a bit of looking after? Servicing, and cleaning off fungal spores and the like? I wonder if folks like to subcontract stump grinding so they don't fill their days servicing hydraulic machines.

 

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Hydraulic parts of machines are generally quite reliable the hydraulics should outlast the engines as they are running in oil. Just very expensive to fix if they do break

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If you are willing to travel you will find enough work. I'd expect to covering several counties to do that though.

 

Could be a fairly easy thing to set up though. Pickup, trailer, large tracked grinder, medium and or small wheeled grinder, blower, basic chainsaw and you are away. You could do it for £30k with some decent used stuff. Work from home as long as you have a means to dispose of the arisings.

 

I haven't done a lot myself but would imagine it would get boring after a few months of day in, day out grinding.

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My old company - Midland Tree Surgeons, in Burton in Trent offered and still do a stump grinding service Nationally. & made a lot of money. (Probably still do) owners were cash rich, able to buy the best machines outright - not just one. When I was there, they ran a Vermeer 630B, 2x Rayco 1625's and a monster Rayco 1665.

 

As an example, in a week (Mon - Sat), I did 2 days in Cheshire for the Grosvenor Estate, 1 day in Edinburgh, 2 days in Anglesey & a day in Dublin. That was an average week....

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