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FWIW, in the golf course business, we *never* allow stumps to be ground anywhere that will be 'finished' grass afterwards.
It is only allowed in rough areas, or other "out of play" areas like surplus lands or roadsides.
The problem is the amount of raw wood you are going to grind up and introduce into the soil in a relatively small area around where the stump used to be. Within a few years it all starts to breakdown and decompose. This causes two problems. One, it makes a big change in the soil composition in one small area, the grass will be different, possibly out of balance, if it was a confirous tree, likely *very* acidic. Secondly, all that decomposing material will cause settling as it reduces in volume, and also as the stirred up soil naturally compacts back to it's former level.
Whenever possible we dig out and remove stumps. If you're interested I can probably hook you up with some folks that would come in and take down the trees in exchange for the wood. Then you just need a local contractor with a good sized excavator to yank the stumps. Since you will likely need a driveway & stuff anyways the cost will be minimal to do it all at once.
I'm going to be in your neck of the woods the end of this month, at Oshkosh, let me know if you want some info. or contacts. I know a few in your area.
Best of luck.
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Kenneth, I beg to differ, we routinely get people who will come out to pick up as little as just one single tree.
The trick is finding the right people with the right use for the wood.
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Kenneth, we have a network of people all across the country we can tap, they are all lic. contrators and fully insured, they are just very small companies who like very small jobs.
I like dealing with owner/operators where possible, I get better service and have less problems.
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Kenneth, I don't know about as far up as your area off the top of my head, but I will check if you want.
SG's area is another deal, there's a guy I know in Jax who has a portable sawmill behind a 5 ton truck, he's pretty happy to get free trees.
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SG, click on my name to the left, then click on "Send Murf a Private Message" and give me an email address I will put him in contact with you.
I would send it to you, but yours is blocked.
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