Stump Grinding over a water main..

[casperugm]

I have a clust of pine trees that were in my front yard right over the house water line, tress have been cut down and now I have a stump, curious if any advice on if stump grinding it would VIBRATE the roots which may or may not be wrapped around my house water line.......

Any advice would be helpful.?

 

[Maintenance supervisor]

Grinding is preferable to pulling stumps where lines of any kind are . If the teeth on the grinder are sharp you won't have to much vibration.
Whats your frost line? You know your waterline is at least that deep.

 

[casperugm]

Grinding is preferable to pulling stumps where lines of any kind are . If the teeth on the grinder are sharp you won't have to much vibration.
Whats your frost line? You know your waterline is at least that deep.

Good point, I know frost line is pretty deep here I'll will check tomorrow for sure but I'm think water line is at least 7-8 ft deep.

 

[Del_]

Good point, I know frost line is pretty deep here I'll will check tomorrow for sure but I'm think water line is at least 7-8 ft deep.

I don't think you have anything to worry about.

 

[Dave1960_Gorge]

I have a clust of pine trees that were in my front yard right over the house water line, tress have been cut down and now I have a stump, curious if any advice on if stump grinding it would VIBRATE the roots which may or may not be wrapped around my house water line.......

Any advice would be helpful.?

I have ground my share of stumps and I do not think grinding s going to affect the pipe by vibration. Then again, I did a job recently where a pine stump was right over the inflow pipe to a leaching field. Found the pipe by hand digging (ughhh lot of work). Pressure test before I filled the hole showed a leak...but the tree had cracked the pipe, not the stump grinding. It was a fast growing ponderosa, which had been feeding off the leaching field. The sewer guy said that the roots had pushed the pipe sideways where it was cracked (he removed the rest of the roots, and re-laid the pipe). I didn't actually grind all the roots -- just as much as I could estimating where the pipe was by exposing it to one side of the stump.

I ground out all I could because the homeowner wanted to be sure the pipe was intact. Way more than needed to plant a bush there or grass. In your case, why not grind down a foot, and do the same? Its not like it is going to re-sprout.

 

[lone wolf]

I don't think you have anything to worry about.

If the lines are as deep as he says ,nothing to worry about would be right.