Stump Grinding Rates

[4shorts]

This past spring I had 13 stumps I had to remove. I couldn't get to them with a backhoe so I tried to remove them by hand but that's tough to do. I never even got one out by hand. I found a rental shop that rented a stump grinder for $100. A day so I got it. All my stumps were about 12-16" in dia. The grinder had a 13HP Honda motor on it and from the time I started the project to the time I had them all grinded down it was less than two hours and I took each one down 8" below grade.

My buddy who also needed some stumps grinded took the machine after I used it, did his stumps and we split the cost. We returned the machine that same day and the rental shop only charged us $66. for the rental. The best deal I got all summer.

 

[cat 297c]

I'm not planing on doing big jobs with it, i think i will come out better money wise doing smaller jobs. I'm also thinking of charging a minimum of 150.00, no matter if it is one stump. I know where fish is coming from i'm not going to load up one of my machines an go do a job just to break even. As far as the bigger stump grinding jobs if one comes along i'll call up Rayco an get one for the 140 if there's money to be made. Thanks for all the info :thumbsup: