Tree Stump Removal

[paddy]

hi simon i am edinburgh area if you want a free quotes for stumps i will come and have a look might do them for £500 or £600 cheers

[Mark Bolam]

Thanks for the replies.

 

To be more precise (I'm Edinburgh based) the quote was £450 + VAT for three stumps. Two of these are 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep to ground level, and the other is half those dimensions.

 

I made a crude extrapolation to get £1000 for 10 stumps as the others are smaller - so I might even be underestimating the total bill based on the above.

 

A rough idea of how quickly Joe Blogs with no previous experience could get through one of these larger stumps with a 13/20 HP grinder from a plant hire rental would be appreciated?

 

Thanks

S

 

You would spend more than £1000 hiring the grinder for that long!

 

EVERY single 13hp grinder I have used/seen used/heard about from a hire co. was truly awful.

 

Listen to the local guys on here, they are by far your best bet.

 

Or put a water butt on each stump and beat the drought!

[Dog Tag]

if your not in a rush....ecoplugs.. 27p each..

[Brett]

If you do decide to hire in, try Akro multihire in livingston, their tracked machine is the mutts, but it will cost you about the same as the guys here are quoting.

[Bethansmum]

Not sure if you might be ale to help, but just moved into a house with an overgrown garden. Cut down some nettles and discovered a tree stump about 60cm diameter. Think it may have been a red maple, same as another tree in the garden. Any ideas of how much it might cost to be ground out, or is there anything I could do to get rid. I am in Nottingham. Many thanks

[agg221]

There is a chemical approach, based on drilling and filling, then waiting six months or so for it to permeate through, which makes them much easier to burn. It is very effective in the right situation and in pre-grinder days was recommended practice (I found it in a gardening book which dates from about 1880). For the record, it is also not notably environmentally damaging and certainly not persistent. However, unless you are really familiar with handling chemicals, the stumps are entirely out in the open with a good radius of clear, bare earth around them and you can keep a very close eye on them, I would strongly advise against it. This is why I haven't stated what the chemical approach is.

 

Alec

[face cord]

Ive recently dug out a dozen stumps around that size with a pick axe & a winch etc took over a week though.

 

And ruined a few packs of reciprocating saw blades but there are fairly cheap

 

Its hard work.

[tristree]

i hired a 3.5 tonne excavator and removed 20 stumps in 2 days all for the price including delivery of 250 quid.........cheaper than a stump grinder......worked for me... rock on arrow plant hire

[Steve Bullman]

Hi,

 

I've inherited 10 large tree stumps in my house and my budget will not stretch to the £1000+ quotes to get them leveled with a professional grinder.

 

I have read that one method is to apply a chemical into bored drill holes which makes the stump more porous, and therefore more conducive to burning.

 

Is this recommended, and if so, can you recommend a suitable product?

 

Many Thanks

Simon

 

You could ask for a price purely to grind the roots and sort out the aftermath yourself if you want to save cash. Any large grinder should be able to take care of those in 1 day if they dont have to move the earth and grindings

[hamdogg]

U got any pictures?