Changed my mind about stump grinding after a Bethesda job went south

I used to think you could always just dig out a stump by hand if you had a good shovel and a strong back. But last Tuesday in Bethesda I hit a black walnut that had roots wrapping around an old sewer line. My grinder kicked a rock through a basement window, and digging would have taken three days. So I rented a tracked stump grinder for $280 and finished the whole thing in four hours. I am now a believer in just hiring out the heavy jobs. Anyone else had a job where hand tools just were not going to cut it?

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charlesj461d ago

Yep, @palmer.henry, run water down the pipe first to hear if you're getting close.

palmer.henry1d ago

Wait, you managed to grind a black walnut that close to a sewer line without hitting the pipe itself?