Raking it in!

[Johny Walker]

Diamond teeth, No.

 

Running late, in bother with the wife again, Yes.

 

Amazing how fear gives you so much energy?

 

how deep did u take the stump,

[likeitorlumpit]

This is the issue with small machines. They are hard work.

Mostly people take the stump a few inches below ground so the hazard is removed.

Thats not the same as going right through the root plate which is what usually the customers really want

[Ty Korrigan]

Well, I'm a root plate kinda guy:001_smile:

Even done hefty pine 4 stumps (80cm DBH when trees so 1m20+ as stumps) but took ALL day about it though with the HB20.

It needed alot of digging out the chips to get a level and repositioning time after time though. Really was the work of a larger machine but as yet aside from time wise there is not stump it can't do UNLESS the ground is sloping too much.

Having used smaller push me pull me hire machines around 18hp and less I can honestly say they where hard work and a self propelled model is a real boon.

BUT I certainly would buy a wee 13hp+ grinder tomorrow if I was starting out again as most of the stumps we do are petite enough.

27hp gives plenty of grunt for 90% of what we come across daily although I aspire to a 35hp 4WD Buck Rogers 21st Century model...

Ty

[Gray git]

About 6-7" johny, all that was wanted to be able to turf over the hole, I can go deeper with the rg13 but try and avoid it and if I do I use a vermeer 252

[swinny]

I always grind out the root plates...

 

i did this with my pedestrian grinder...

[swinny]

Ground out and all arrisings left on the side as they were going to re flag that area thus needing to dig to put some quarry waste down, so saved them part of a job

[Hodge]

I was not taking about the customer (although some may be tempted)

 

If you were doing a job for a client and they told you they had had an unskilled task completed by some one using a specialist tool, the task had taken them 1 hour and they had charged £300, would you not be interested in what the task was and what the tool was?

 

I would certainly be interested.

 

I sort of know what you mean, a mate of mine is having new laminate floor done he got a quote off a guy who said it would take 3 days and cost 600 quid excluding materials. My mate said so 200 quid a day labour to lay a floor, I ain't paying that!!

[Chris Sheppard]

Mostly people take the stump a few inches below ground so the hazard is removed.

Thats not the same as going right through the root plate which is what usually the customers really want

 

 

Read on here a good reply by someone to customer a while ago

 

"It's a stump grinder, not a root finder"

[DN22 Gardening]

I sort of know what you mean, a mate of mine is having new laminate floor done he got a quote off a guy who said it would take 3 days and cost 600 quid excluding materials. My mate said so 200 quid a day labour to lay a floor, I ain't paying that!!

 

I'm the same.

 

Was quoted £3000 + materials to fit a new log boiler to my system, when i asked the guy how long it'd take him..... 5 days.

 

Time for me to go back to college