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Am I the only one who thought stump grinding near the fence was a bad idea until I tried it
I had a 28 inch silver maple stump about 4 feet from my neighbor's chain link fence in Rochester, and I told the homeowner it would wreck the fence post for sure. We ground it out anyway with a Vermeer 252 and the fence never moved, the post was set 30 inches deep and the roots were already dead after I cut the tree down 14 months prior. Has anyone else had a stump job go way better than expected because the tree had been dead a while?
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lopez.brooke2d ago
Dead roots change everything. I've ground stumps that sat for over a year and the root ball was basically mush by then. The grinder just chews through that stuff, no pushing against live wood that wants to fight back. Chain link posts set 30 inches deep in Rochester soil? That thing wasn't going anywhere even if you bumped it. The real danger is green wood with live roots wrapping around a post, those will heave and twist as they keep growing. Once the tree's been down a while, the roots dry out and shrink and lose all their grip. Smart call cutting it first and waiting, that's the part people skip.
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