Backyards, side yards and gated lots in Lewisville, NC
Residential Stump Grinding for Lewisville Backyards and Gated Yards
The machine we bring to a Lewisville backyard is a compact, self-propelled grinder that rolls through a standard gate on rubber tracks, works within inches of the fence or the house, and leaves the lawn with mower marks rather than ruts. Tell us the gate width and the stump's width, and the quote is set on the call.
Free, no-obligation estimates. We quote the whole job before we start, with no surprise charges after.
Residential stump grinding in Lewisville
Residential stump grinding is the same below-grade job done inside a lived-in yard, where the route in and the lawn both matter. The wheel still shaves the stump and its root flare into chips until all of it sits several inches under the turf, the finish the trade calls "below grade", and the spot is raked level before we leave. What changes in a Lewisville backyard is everything around the stump: a gate in a privacy fence, a strip of grass between the house and the property line, a patio, a flower bed, a play set, buried irrigation. A truck cannot back up to any of that, so the residential job is done with a compact, "self-propelled" machine that drives itself in on rubber tracks and works where a full-size rig would never fit.
Tommy's Stump Grinding does this work in Lewisville, NC and the towns around it, in yards a family uses every day. The same machine takes the single stump behind the house, the row of shrub stubs along a fence and the raised roots that cross the lawn. Commercial lots and common areas are a different scale of work and have their own page; this one is about your yard. Getting through the gate is the first question.
Gates, paths and tight spots
A self-propelled machine passes through an opening of about three feet and works within inches of fences, patios and foundations. The trade's figure is 36 inches: a compact, rubber-tracked grinder fits any gate that wide, which is the standard single gate on most Lewisville privacy fences. Three things decide whether the machine reaches the stump.
- Gate width36 inches clear, post to post. Measure the opening, not the gate leaf, and tell us the number.
- A clear pathGrass, gravel or paving from the gate to the stump. The machine will not climb steps or a retaining wall.
- SlopeFooting the tracks can hold. It will not work a slope steeper than about 25 degrees; most Lewisville yards are well under that.
The same machine handles a single stump, a row of shrub stubs and the surface roots across the lawn, all through the same gate. What it does to the grass on the way in is the next question.
What the lawn looks like after
Rubber tracks spread the machine's weight so the lawn takes tire marks rather than ruts, and boards go down on the softest ground. The drive marks a tracked machine leaves look like the ones a lawn mower leaves, and they lift with the next rain and the next mowing. Where the yard is wet, or the route crosses a bed or a soft patch of Piedmont clay, protective boards go under the tracks so the turf is not compacted and recovers quickly. Around the stump itself the finish is a circle of chip-and-soil mix raked flush with the grass. Nothing is dug, and no truck crosses the lawn at any point. A stump close to the house is the worry we hear most.
Grinding close to the house
A stump against a foundation, a fence or a patio can be ground, because the wheel cuts at the edge of the machine. The cutting wheel sits out in front of the tracks on a boom, so the teeth reach within inches of a wall, a fence post, a driveway edge or the border of a flower bed while the machine stays back on the grass. The wheel is swung across the stump in thin bites rather than driven into it, which is how it works tight to brick or concrete without touching either. Say on the call how close the stump sits to the house and what stands beside it, and we plan the approach before the machine comes off the trailer. Then there is the pile it leaves.
The spoil the job leaves
The spoil is raked back into the hole and crowned, or hauled away for a fee when the yard has no use for it. Grinding a stump turns the wood into a pile of chips mixed with dirt, the "spoil", and the pile is always bigger than the stump was. Left on site it goes back into the hole as backfill, crowned a little because the chips settle, or raked out as mulch under the beds. Hauling the pile off and filling the hole with fresh topsoil is an add-on; across the trade it typically runs about $25 to $75 by volume, and we set the figure for your pile on the call. Every stump grinding visit ends with the hole filled or left ready for topsoil, and the settling, the fill and the seed that follow are set out under what happens to the hole.
Towns in the service area
House calls are taken in Lewisville and the towns around it. The machine trailers out from Shallowford Road most days of the week, and a backyard in any of these towns is booked the same way as one in Lewisville.
- Lewisville
- Clemmons
- Bermuda Run
- Bethania
- Winston-Salem
- Farmington
- Tobaccoville
- East Bend
- Rural Hall
- Advance
- Smithtown
- King
- Yadkinville
- Walkertown
- Kernersville
A yard farther out than these is a question for the call, not a no. The full service area of Tommy's Stump Grinding is listed town by town on the service area around Lewisville.
Ready when the gate is open
Measure the gate, pace off the route and tell us how wide the stump is at the base. We quote the whole job before we start, we show up when we say we will, and we clean up when the work is done. We answer the phone or ring back the same working day.
More from homeowners
Two further questions come up before the visit is booked. Both are answered in full on their own pages; the short versions are here, since they decide what you do in the week before we come.
Private lines in the yard
The free locate marks the utility lines but not private irrigation or lighting, so you should mark those yourself before the visit. A call to 811 has the gas, water and power companies mark their buried lines at no cost. That 811 locate takes three business days' notice in North Carolina, and the whole 811 locate is walked through on its own page. Sprinkler heads, drip lines, landscape lighting and an invisible dog fence are not theirs to mark, so stake or paint each before we come.
Whether a new tree can go back
A new tree can go in the same spot when the grind goes deeper than the standard pass and the hole is filled with soil rather than spoil. The standard depth is six to twelve inches, enough for grass; a tree or a footing needs deeper grinding at added cost, so say so before the quote. Replanting calls for its own depth and spacing, and both are set out on our page on depth and spacing.
What neighbors say about the yard we left
Tommy came out the same week and took the old maple right down below the lawn. He raked it level before he left and you cannot tell where it stood.
We had three of them and a mess of raised roots along the drive. All of it went in one visit and the spoil went back into the holes.
Needed a big pine out before the new turf went down. Quoted over the phone, done two days later, and the spot was left flat and ready.
Through the gate, under the lawn, gone.
Measure the gate, tell us the stump's width and where it sits, and we quote the whole job on the call.