I just found a sub for stumpgrinding

[ropensaddle]

I've had my stump grinder since 1997?

Since then, I don't think I have ever had someone come out and ask for a quote while I was there. So far as I know, none of my guys has either, although it could happen and I wouldn't know.

You guys just don't know what a tough market is all about.

I know a couple of folks that thought they could make a living with a stump grinder, fire all the help, just noodle around with easy work. Not in business anymore.

I believe I know all about a tough market friend I will go do stumps for a day or two but then its trees and more trees 30 or 40 a day so if I come up with a couple days of banging out stumps it is only a break.

 

[pdqdl]

Settle down there, Rope. I know you're in a tight spot.

My understanding is that you're not just in a tough market, you're in a poor market, too. I was talking about those guys getting $200 an hour, with customers lining up to get their stump ground.

Or anything even close to that much money.

 

[ropensaddle]

Settle down there, Rope. I know you're in a tight spot.

My understanding is that you're not just in a tough market, you're in a poor market, too. I was talking about those guys getting $200 an hour, with customers lining up to get their stump ground.

Or anything even close to that much money.

Yeah those guys got it made and don't know it but really I grind for my golf course jobs at 12 per stump and average 125 per hour gross but that is not playing around and going to the snack bar etc.

 

[pdqdl]

Yeah those guys got it made and don't know it but really I grind for my golf course jobs at 12 per stump and average 125 per hour gross but that is not playing around and going to the snack bar etc.

Yeah, but who is cutting off the trees? I'll bet you already know where all the stumps are, don't you?

 

[ropensaddle]

Yeah, but who is cutting off the trees? I'll bet you already know where all the stumps are, don't you?

Now why did ya have to make me they do their own trees even though I would do them better, faster and fair ohhhhhhhhhhhh this is not a rant but man it just stinks

 

[tree md]

Yeah those guys got it made and don't know it but really I grind for my golf course jobs at 12 per stump and average 125 per hour gross but that is not playing around and going to the snack bar etc.

Just bid 400 stumps at the local golf course. I bid it sky high because I really didn't want it. Stumps were scattered over a very large area and some were approaching 60". The winning bid was 12 grand, 30 a stump. I know who won the bid and he is a rookie who just started out last Oct. He has a raggedy old stumper and will probably spend a month on that job. If he tears up his stumper he will likely loose any profit he might have made. I can't afford to be bogged down for a month on stumps. Plus I hate stump grinding. I make money doing trees. Stumping is more of an ancillary service to me. I'll do it but if I make a trip just for a stump it's a $150 minimum.

Oh yeah, they had Asplundh do the trees. Had they given me the tree job I could have worked with them on the stumps.

 

[ropensaddle]

Just bid 400 stumps at the local golf course. I bid it sky high because I really didn't want it. Stumps were scattered over a very large area and some were approaching 60". The winning bid was 12 grand, 30 a stump. I know who won the bid and he is a rookie who just started out last Oct. He has a raggedy old stumper and will probably spend a month on that job. If he tears up his stumper he will likely loose any profit he might have made. I can't afford to be bogged down for a month on stumps. Plus I hate stump grinding. I make money doing trees. Stumping is more of an ancillary service to me. I'll do it but if I make a trip just for a stump it's a $150 minimum.

Oh yeah, they had Asplundh do the trees. Had they given me the tree job I could have worked with them on the stumps.

I could do that for 6000 and make good dough! Take me four days.

 

[tree md]

I could do that for 6000 and make good dough! Take me four days.

It would definitely take you more than four days rope. These stumps a scattered over at least a square mile and a lot of them are on hills.

I almost called you to see if you wanted me to bid it for you to do but I thought you were busy doing storm work. Wish I would have called you now.

 

[prentice110]

its gotta b a gimmick or a typo not even a tard would go that low. one time i tested the advertising world by saying i would beat written estimates. Only had one person call me on what the ad actually said. got a lot of good work out of it. We all can poke fun at a mad mans claims but we dont live in his shoes. If he aint b-s-n tho, one of my old mans quotes comes to mind. "its hard to compete with an idiot".

 

[pdqdl]

Just bid 400 stumps at the local golf course...

Was that grind and run, rake to a pile, or with cleanup?

 

[ropensaddle]

It would definitely take you more than four days rope. These stumps a scattered over at least a square mile and a lot of them are on hills.

I almost called you to see if you wanted me to bid it for you to do but I thought you were busy doing storm work. Wish I would have called you now.

Man hills is all I see here and stumps are big medium on my courses my best day was 127 stumps in which there were some near 60 inch but you are right I am busy for now but in a couple weeks who knows. I have found it better to stay covered up bills seem to take care of themselves better!

 

[gr8scott72]

Just bid 400 stumps at the local golf course. I bid it sky high because I really didn't want it. Stumps were scattered over a very large area and some were approaching 60". The winning bid was 12 grand, 30 a stump. I know who won the bid and he is a rookie who just started out last Oct. He has a raggedy old stumper and will probably spend a month on that job. If he tears up his stumper he will likely loose any profit he might have made. I can't afford to be bogged down for a month on stumps. Plus I hate stump grinding. I make money doing trees. Stumping is more of an ancillary service to me. I'll do it but if I make a trip just for a stump it's a $150 minimum.

Oh yeah, they had Asplundh do the trees. Had they given me the tree job I could have worked with them on the stumps.

I did a 72 stump job for $1500 in Dec.

$12,000 for 400 stumps is 30 a stump. I did these for about $20 a stump and they where all monster oaks (36" and a few bigger and cut 3' off the ground.) and a few pines. Took me 4 days but that was fighting the rain which sent me home a couple of times early. It was about 25 hours on the machine which was about $60 per hour. I'm making about $150 per machine hour so it was just under half price but I was DEAD in dec and the $1,500 was much needed.

I'd do 400 for $12,000 even if it did take all month. $12,000 in a month even after expenses is just fine by me.

 

[ropensaddle]

I did a 72 stump job for $1500 in Dec.

$12,000 for 400 stumps is 30 a stump. I did these for about $20 a stump and they where all monster oaks (36" and a few bigger and cut 3' off the ground.) and a few pines. Took me 4 days but that was fighting the rain which sent me home a couple of times early. It was about 25 hours on the machine which was about $60 per hour. I'm making about $150 per machine hour so it was just under half price but I was DEAD in dec and the $1,500 was much needed.

I'd do 400 for $12,000 even if it did take all month. $12,000 in a month even after expenses is just fine by me.

Man 25 hours for 72 stumps I have that done by lunch usually they must have been all over town?

 

[tree md]

Problem is I don't own my own stumper. So I really couldn't compete. I could have either subbed it out or rented a stumper and if I tore it up I'd be up a creek without a paddle. Plus. did I mention I hate stump grinding???

I have a guy that I can sub out to but will usually rent a stumper when needed to keep my guys busy for a day. What I normally do is wait till I have a bunch of stumps and knock them out in one day.

 

[gr8scott72]

Man 25 hours for 72 stumps I have that done by lunch usually they must have been all over town?

Are you sure?

 

[ropensaddle]

Are you sure?

I am sure they were not all like that and I am sure you did not cut that tree and I would get many of even those done by dinner and I carry a saw as well so I would have cut that one lower to start. I get 72 done pretty fast those big ones take some more time for sure I have blasted forty out similar by lunch but they were cut low!

 

[tree md]

That's something else I forgot to mention. Many of the stumps on that golf course were like the one Gr8tscott has pictured. Would have to be flush cut before ground.

 

[gr8scott72]

I am sure they were not all like that and I am sure you did not cut that tree and I would get many of even those done by dinner and I carry a saw as well so I would have cut that one lower to start. I get 72 done pretty fast those big ones take some more time for sure I have blasted forty out similar by lunch but they were cut low!

That was one of the bigger ones. I find it just as fast (if I don't have to do clean-up) to just grind them instead of cutting them lower. Besides with the way the roots flared out on that stump, it would have been a chore to flush cut it even with my Husky 394 with the 32" bar.

 

[ropensaddle]

That's something else I forgot to mention. Many of the stumps on that golf course were like the one Gr8tscott has pictured. Would have to be flush cut before ground.

I bring a 36" 395 xp they like firewood or they learn to I will say on my gigs there all sizes and yes 25% big uns 65% med and the rest small 12" so lets say I took a week which
I promise would be all it took 6000 in a week minus fuel say 350.00 minus lodging say 700 so
4900.00 for five days of golf and stumping not too bad fooooooooooooor lol.

 

[ropensaddle]

That was one of the bigger ones. I find it just as fast (if I don't have to do clean-up) to just grind them instead of cutting them lower. Besides with the way the roots flared out on that stump, it would have been a chore to flush cut it even with my Husky 394 with the 32" bar.

Yeah I sometimes do too depending on how sharp my teeth are you got it made we have all rock ,quartz,granite,crystal etc.