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I recall using a rental stump grinder maybe 20 years ago (I'm 64
now) and remember it was a fair amount of noisy, bouncy, vibrating
work to take out a few moderate stumps. I further remember later
hiring a commercial stump grinder when I had several 24" ++ stumps
to be ground out, and being amazed at how (relatively) fast and
easy the BIG truck mounted hydraulic stump grinder made the job. I
just had a dozen or so trees taken out of our (badly overgrown) lot
and I know what I'm going to be doing sometime this fall, and it
doesn't involve going to Home Depot. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/10/2017 5:42 PM, Jim Stone wrote:<br>
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<div>We recently had a couple of trees cut down to improve the
driveway access to my new garage. One was fairly large and the
total stump is about 2' by 3' (at some point, the tree had a
second trunk). We're getting an estimate to have the stumps
ground down, but as usual, I'm considering doing it myself, even
though I've never used a stump grinder before. How hard is it?
Can a 65 year old guy - in reasonably good shape for a 65 year
old guy - safely handle one? Can a basic rental unit like Home
Depot carries (<a
href="http://www.homedepot.com/tool-truck-rental/mobile/Stump-Grinder/SG1314B/"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.homedepot.com/tool-truck-rental/mobile/Stump-Grinder/SG1314B/</a>)
handle something this big in multiple passes? And more
specifically: how likely am I to regret the decision if I decide
to do it?</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">Thanks,</div>
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