Moraine Sand Is Fast Ground For A Grinder
That is one genuine cost advantage this village has, and it shows in the figure.
Clean sand lets a stump grinding and removal wheel travel fast and leaves the teeth intact. Up on the crest, stump grinding and removal is uncomplicated.
The exception is stone in the till. Where the moraine left cobbles, the wheel finds them at full revolutions and the same face takes half again as long.
Depth Follows Whatever The Ground Is For
Stump grinding and removal depth is a written number, settled before the trailer gets loaded.
Under lawn, stump grinding and removal reaches six to eight inches down. Grass roots are shallow, so the sequence is chip, soil, seed.
Under planting, deep enough for a root ball to find earth instead of compacted grindings. Concrete, shed footings and post lines all ask for more.
Just want it below mower height? Shallower, cheaper, and worth mentioning.
Backfill On Sand Drops Fast
Expect to add material once more inside the first year following stump grinding and removal.
It compacts over that first twelve months, and on ground this free-draining nothing else follows.
Heap it on purpose instead of raking flat. A dip in sand holds no water, but it will swallow a mower wheel.
Anything Planted There Wants Two Summers Of Water
Grindings hold almost nothing, and by August the moraine sand beneath them is not doing much better.
Plant in the fall, not the spring. Water through two complete seasons. And keep a gap between new stock and fresh grindings, because chip rotting down strips nitrogen from the soil around it.
Upland stock is what establishes here. Oak, hickory, sugar maple and black cherry all grew on this ridge before the village did.
Three Things To Say Before The Machine Arrives
Each of the three alters the price or the way we work.
Services below grade. A wheel meets conduit and pipe at full speed, and on the older village lots the drawing and the reality seldom agree.
How we get in. The small grinder fits a standard gateway and the large one will not, though the large one is far quicker. Out on open ground it hardly matters.
Metal or rock inside the stump. Stumps on old fence lines have often swallowed wire, and hitting it costs a complete set of teeth and the remainder of the day.