shaving removal

[Stump Easy]

Usually 3 or 4 days of the week.

 

[bombdude]

Welcome Stump Easy.

I've got a 352 which gives me good access capability, but still has power to get the job done somewhat faster. I've done several 8 footers which takes me about 3 hours. Did an 11 footer about a month ago that was just over 4 hours.

But, we don't have any eucalyptus trees around here. My big ones were all oak. Is eucalyptus harder than other trees??

 

[MOE]

I've been grinding for several years on as a sideline to my full time job. Most of the people who hire me are the do it yourself types that cut their own trees down but don't have a stump grinder. Nearly all of them prefer to do thier own cleanup. the amount of buisness I lose because I don't clean up is maybe a couple of jobs a year. This is fine with me because I stay busy enough considering I work a full time job as well. Here is a 7' cottonwood that We did clean up mainly because we had to in order to have room to work.

 

[gr8scott72]

I've been grinding for several years on as a sideline to my full time job. Most of the people who hire me are the do it yourself types that cut their own trees down but don't have a stump grinder. Nearly all of them prefer to do thier own cleanup. the amount of buisness I lose because I don't clean up is maybe a couple of jobs a year. This is fine with me because I stay busy enough considering I work a full time job as well. Here is a 7' cottonwood that We did clean up mainly because we had to in order to have room to work.

That's a huge tree.

It's funny that every time I see someone using a grinder with a pull-out control panel/shield, he is leaning around the side of the panel instead of looking thru it.

 

[arbor pro]

That's a huge tree.

It's funny that every time I see someone using a grinder with a pull-out control panel/shield, he is leaning around the side of the panel instead of looking thru it.

Good point. The shield on my bid grinder is always fogged up or dirty so I never look through it. It seems to me that a remote would be the only way to go if I ever get around to upgrading the old beast.

Looking at the photos posted by MOE, it reminds me of a 7' dbh cottonwood that I cut down three years ago. I kept dulling chains when trying to get cut through the base of the trunk. I knew there was some decay at the base but, I'm talking about dulling one chain after another when I got to the center of the tree. Finally, I got it pulled over with my crane and was a bit surprised to find an 18" boulder right smack dab in the middle of the 10' diameter stump! The tree must have grown right around it when it was much younger. You'd never have known when looking at the full-grown trunk - no sign of a cavity or anything - just a big big rock right in the middle!

When I told the homeowner the price just went up for grinding the stump, he through a fit and told me the rock wasn't HIS problem...

as if it was MINE! Some people...

 

[ropensaddle]

Good point. The shield on my bid grinder is always fogged up or dirty so I never look through it. It seems to me that a remote would be the only way to go if I ever get around to upgrading the old beast.

Looking at the photos posted by MOE, it reminds me of a 7' dbh cottonwood that I cut down three years ago. I kept dulling chains when trying to get cut through the base of the trunk. I knew there was some decay at the base but, I'm talking about dulling one chain after another when I got to the center of the tree. Finally, I got it pulled over with my crane and was a bit surprised to find an 18" boulder right smack dab in the middle of the 10' diameter stump! The tree must have grown right around it when it was much younger. You'd never have known when looking at the full-grown trunk - no sign of a cavity or anything - just a big big rock right in the middle!

When I told the homeowner the price just went up for grinding the stump, he through a fit and told me the rock wasn't HIS problem...

as if it was MINE! Some people...

Sorry to inform ya it is your problem I have them all the time how do you change price in the middle? I don't think I would if I could, I will accept more if they see my hardship and I sometimes point it out but never try to say more money, they already have budgeted to pay your price. Of course all we have is rock here and stumps should be much higher priced but reality stinks in this respect!

 

[MOE]

Sorry to inform ya it is your problem I have them all the time how do you change price in the middle? I don't think I would if I could, I will accept more if they see my hardship and I sometimes point it out but never try to say more money, they already have budgeted to pay your price. Of course all we have is rock here and stumps should be much higher priced but reality stinks in this respect!

I have too agree, I work in rock and old fence post country. Years ago, farmers used trees as fence posts and piled field rock around the base just to get it them out of the way. I chip a lot of teeth but I consider it part of the buisness in the area I work. I try to charge to allow for it. Most home owners don't know whats in the stump. I don't think it's fair to put it on them to pay more. If I did in this area, word of mouth would kill my buisness in short order.

 

[gr8scott72]

Good point. The shield on my bid grinder is always fogged up or dirty so I never look through it. It seems to me that a remote would be the only way to go if I ever get around to upgrading the old beast.

I actually got to use a big Vermeer tow-behind before I bought my Carlton and found myself looking around the shield also. What I think is ironic is that the Rayco guys (since you can't get a remote on a Rayco) all talk bad about the remote saying that it's not as safe as the shield and yet they end up looking around the shield standing in the worst possible place to do so.

I like my remote!!

 

[custom8726]

I actually got to use a big Vermeer tow-behind before I bought my Carlton and found myself looking around the shield also. What I think is ironic is that the Rayco guys (since you can't get a remote on a Rayco) all talk bad about the remote saying that it's not as safe as the shield and yet they end up looking around the shield standing in the worst possible place to do so.

I like my remote!!

I have a rayco and a carlton and they both have there pros and cons but I get hit with far less flying debre running the rayco behind the shield then the carlton.

 

[gr8scott72]

I have a rayco and a carlton and they both have there pros and cons but I get hit with far less flying debre running the rayco behind the shield then the carlton.

Not if you're peaking around the corner of the shield.

 

[custom8726]

Not if you're peaking around the corner of the shield.

No need to with mine. The carlton gets used more because of accessability issues but when we can use the big rayco its great standing behind that big piece of plexi glass not getting hit with a thing. Not bashing the carltons I think they are one of the best stump grinders made.

 

[Oly's Stump]

I peer around the shield of my Rayco also because you cannot see a thing through those shields. Its easier also to hear if your starting to cut into something bad likes big rocks, pipes, ect. I wear the helmet, muffs, and screen face shield. My Carlton remote machine is nice and keeps you out of all the dirt and dust. No swing out control panel gives you tighter access to stumps. I still don't understand why the Rayco people have not went to a remote machine. They make a good machine (except for their trailers) but I am sticking with remote machines from now on.