Grinding Up the Stumps

Well, it had to happen sooner or later. I would find something that needed to be posted long before now -- so here's another little detour.

The construction site had not only 4 trees that needed to be removed, but also about 14 stumps that needed to go. We have this guy who comes out of Oklahoma; he comes here twice a year to grind everybody's stumps. He puts an ad in the newspaper with a phone number to call. My neighbor had used him before, so we called.

He shows up with this monstrous piece of machinery mounted on a trailer with what looks like a diesel truck engine and a grinding wheel that looks like it could cut thru concrete. Between my stumps and all the neighbors stumps in our little subdivision he did about 25 of them in about 2 hours. This thing grinds stumps so fast he doesn't even get out of the truck. Big stumps (24" diameter) take less than a minute. He drives the truck around and positions the trailer; his son or nephew (can't remember) operates the grinder.