Stumpgrinding

[benedmonds]

I brought the old vermeer 206 and it's already hard at work.. Now we have our own machine I'm selling grinding much more and therefore getting a lot more stumps to do. We've 3 or 4 a week to do when previously we'd get that a month.

 

Anyone got a good source for the teeth?

 

Also what's the best way to grind stumps? moving forward cutting a few inches and then doing more passes, or staying in the same place and going down, then moving on?

[Acer Forestry]

If there is enough profit in each job, some blokes work the cost of a set of cheaper finger teeth into the price, depends what you are charging? Look on Ebay for the finger teeth, if you get a greenstone carbide grinding wheel from a tool merchants, sharpen dulled teeth yourself or you will be shelling out a small fortune. Apparently this type of tooth are as good as any of the more high performance pricier options around, but opinions are like ********, everybody's got one. trial and error on the grind, I'd do steady sweeps across the whole diameter and work back

[Log-ologist]

Dont bother with greenstone grinder wheels, they wear very quickly and make lots of nasty fine dust. Get a double sided diamond disk for your angle grinder from Saturn Machine Knives ( they may also do the teeth) They last much longer and are quicker. Also I take the angle grinder and a long lead to work and use the clients electric to buff them up on the job. ( all other trades do this so why not us)

[TheTreeWiseMen]

http://www.greenteeth.com/

[Acer Forestry]

Fair comment, the greenstones do wear fast and you do need a decent mask-don't breathe the dust, its toxic.

[geoff]

OpenDNS cant beat them, qualitystuff, good for timberwolf blades too,based in Wickford,essex, but delliver in post.