Stump Grinding in Stafford

Stump grinding describes the procedure in which the stump of a felled tree is disposed of. Typically after trees are felled a couple of inches of the trunk and the root system are retained in the earth, making the local area unusable as well as potentially providing a habitat for bugs or harbouring tree diseases like honey fungus. If your back yard has stumps in the earth, removing them can open up the location, providing you with added space that you could use to expand your lawn size or add new spaces to lay patio or decking. Experienced stump grinding businesses can extract stumps of any proportion. The operation typically calls for slicing the stump as close to the ground as possible working with a chainsaw, and afterwards utilising specialised stump grinding machinery to grind away at the stump. Stumps are ground down to about 10-12 inches underneath the ground surface to permit planting, however in some instances landscaping projects might require the stump to be removed deeper than this. The wood chipping that is produced by the stump grinding can be either infilled back into the hole and used as compost in other areas of your garden, or the stump grinding company could remove it and dispose of it in an environmentally friendly way. In addition, lots of skilled stump grinding companies provide specialist small equipment that can be used if there is restricted access to your garden for example, via a side passageway.