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Dan in North Houston

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Have a neighbor who wants to purchase a stump grinder to aid in clearing some land. He is leaning towards the two wheel type, 7 or 8 hp motor, walk behind deal. I've never used one, neither has he. I would think they are too light, probably spend more time bouncing off the stump than grinding it, unless he springs for a real heavy duty walk behind. For that money, I would think that a used 3 point type grinder would be much better, and he already has a suitable 50 hp tractor. Anyone have any comments?
 
I would stay away from grinding stumps on land I intended to culivate. Grinding will only removed the top of the stump, not the long roots. I have been on highway construction jobs that another company had the clearing, they would grind below ground level . When we started to move the dirt there were a lot of big pices of wood from the roots of the trees. Pull the stumps with an excavator, or you will be breaking your farming equipment on the large roots.
If you going to level it off and plant grass grinding is the way to go.
 
Rent one for a half day and experience the love-hate characteristics of the beast....

In my case, large hardwood stumps were in rocky ground; so a backhoe worked best..
 
I rented one with a 20 hp Honda on it, pretty slow on oak, faster on softer or rotten stumps. I would go with a 3-point one, it takes lots of power, and the hand held ones are very strenuous to operate.
 
Home Depot rents the small one like your talking about. My son rented one several times and then brought a used one from them that they had replaced with a new one. It works fine for the small jobs he does in the city but I think you would want something bigger. You can rent one from HD first and try it before you spend the money on one. I agree with the one post who said you need to get the roots and everything that you would be digging up when you start tilling the ground. I would think about hireing a big dozer or something that would dig up all the big roots that go with the stumps.
 
The Home Depot had a Vermeer with a 13 HP engine. Looked like a decent machine. It's hard to answer your question. The Vermeer was around $2500 to buy if I recall. A 3pt. or larger engine version will be significantly more money. Some bigger models uses a V-4 Wisconsin engine but expect to pay $10,000 or more for one. Dave
 
I recommend a stump cover. You grind a stump and for the next 25 years you are adding dirt where the stump was. A stump cover is made using landscaping timbers and dirt. Stump covers may also be called a raised flower bed. I have many on my property.
 
I used a similar one on a couple stumps and it seemed to take forever. Don't think I would consider even for a few as ten more. Get something with more power, and even better would be something big enough to be self-propelled and therefore absorb the impact.
 
The small ones like that are lite but will work fair on soft woods.
The grinder attachment for a bob-cat works pretty good, even on larger stumps.
 
Ten years ago when we put in the new house we took out seven decent size black walnuts. Only way to do it is with a backhoe. Dig them up, fill the hole, cut them up, and dispose of the stump any way you can. In my case I was able to burn over a couple years time.
 
a good way to deal with them is to cut the stump off close to ground level , then get a few bags of charcoal and burn the stump out its quiet and effective and you can burn up some hot dogs wile your at it and make it kind of a fun thing
 
I hire a tree service that has a tow behind unit with a diesel engine and a hyd. hitch to extend it and a cutter on a swinging tail. It will make short work of a stump and is worth the price just to to watch it run!!!
 
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