Weight of Lime Stumps ???

[treesnatcher]

a lot more than your expecting.

1 Can you not bury on site?

2 Tub grinder for half a day may be cheaper way

3 Ring round local farmers and ask for a price per grain trailer taken from site they probably just stick it in a burning pit.

Skips or recycling centre. a lot more £££ than above

[difflock]

"Donate" to the local village for a 11th July/Halloween bonfire.

This also works for unwanted super single tyres.

Leastwise here in N I. it does.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Or am I better grinding them? Trouble is they're all in tarmac / concrete ???

 

Cost involved in digging up, squeezing into tipper lorry or bulker, transport to tip and tipping cost is serious!

[difflock]

Does no one make hydraulic clamshell shears that would "bite" them off right down to the paved surface, then minimal grinding.

I know there are excavator mounted "log buster" type splitters but they are really designed to split with the grain.

I would have thought fresh green wood should not have been that difficult to cleave across the grain with hydraulic oil pressure, and sharp hardox edged shears.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Does no one make hydraulic clamshell shears that would "bite" them off right down to the paved surface, then minimal grinding.

I know there are excavator mounted "log buster" type splitters but they are really designed to split with the grain.

I would have thought fresh green wood should not have been that difficult to cleave across the grain with hydraulic oil pressure, and sharp hardox edged shears.

 

They've been felled to ground level i.e. as flush as possible with the ground thus about 1" proud of the tarmac.

[Chris Sheppard]

Or am I better grinding them? Trouble is they're all in tarmac / concrete ???

 

Cost involved in digging up, squeezing into tipper lorry or bulker, transport to tip and tipping cost is serious!

 

Reckon one of those 70hp tracked carltons would make short work of them.

 

Surely digging would mean some of the tarmac/concrete needing removed anyway so maybe a bit of work round the edes with a breaker or digger mounted pecker and then let rip with the grinder might not be too bad to do?

 

Save the headache of disposal and probably end up with less of a hole in the tarmac too.

[T14EES T14UNK]

If they are ok to be ripped out and damage to Tarmac is not a problem, can they be given a good shake about to get the bulk off and stick in one big pile. Then get a mulcher in for a day to grind it all up.

[john p]

Reckon one of those 70hp tracked carltons would make short work of them.

 

Surely digging would mean some of the tarmac/concrete needing removed anyway so maybe a bit of work round the edes with a breaker or digger mounted pecker and then let rip with the grinder might not be too bad to do?

 

Save the headache of disposal and probably end up with less of a hole in the tarmac too.

 

yep,good plan

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Nope, stump grinding not cost effective given the prep required to remove the tarmac et al surrounding each stump; only goes 12" deep. Just putting a swinger in there, remove in a scrap bulker, take em to the tub grinder.

[Jonny69]

I would just grind through the tarmac and allow a few sets of teeth for the job, will be far less messy and time consuming than digging them out.