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A city inspector called my stump grinding 'too aggressive' last fall
He pointed out that I was taking the stump down a full 18 inches below grade on a park job in Cedar Rapids, which was wrecking the soil structure for replanting. I argued it was clean work, but he showed me how the fine root mat was gone and the subsoil was just compacted clay. Now I go just 6 inches down and use a mattock to break up the pan underneath before backfill. Anyone have a better method for prepping a stump site for a new tree?
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jade22113d ago
Wrecking the soil structure" is a phrase that got me too, I used to just see clean dirt.
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