Clemmons, NC, Forsyth County
Stump Grinding for Clemmons Yards and Lots
One machine, one visit, and the stump in your Clemmons yard is chips under the turf with the spot raked flat behind it. Give us the width at the base and where it sits, and the price is settled before we hang up.
Free, no-obligation estimates, and the number you hear on the call is the number on the bill.
Stump grinding in Clemmons, NC
Tommy's Stump Grinding takes tree stumps in Clemmons below grade in a single visit and rakes the spoil back level over them. The stump that stops you in a Clemmons yard is rarely out in the open: it sits a foot off a fence line in Clemmons West, in the strip between two Village Center drives, or under the canopy that closes over the lots in Clemmons North, Clemmons East and Clemmons Southwest. Knowing which of those yards the machine walks into and which it has to be backed into is learned by working them, and it is why the quote on the call asks how we reach the stump before it asks anything else.
Half the houses in the village were standing by 1993, so plenty of Clemmons yards have had thirty-odd years for the tree that came with the lot to grow, come down and leave its stump behind. Three in four of the homes here are owner-occupied, and the owner is usually the one mowing around it. From the streets near the Jerry Long Family YMCA out to the edge of Forsyth County the visit is the same: the wheel chews the stump and its "root flare" into chips, the "spoil" is pushed back into the hollow, and the ground is left flat by the time the trailer is hitched.
What one visit covers
A visit takes the low cut, the grind through the root flare and below grade, and the rake back. Those four parts come in a fixed order, and none is skipped.
- Low cutIf the stump was left tall, it gets a fresh "low cut" down near the turf first, which saves the wheel a foot of wood.
- Utility locateThe free 811 ticket has the gas, water and power lines near the stump marked out in paint and flags before the machine shows up.
- Grind below gradeThe wheel works down through the stump and the surface roots around it until the wood sits six to twelve inches "below grade".
- Rake levelThe chips are raked back into the hollow and smoothed flush with the lawn, or loaded up and hauled off if you would rather.
Stump removal is the name Tommy's Stump Grinding gives that whole visit, and each part of it is laid out at length on the page for stump removal. Which Clemmons yards the machine gets into comes next.
The parts of Clemmons the machine reaches
Across Clemmons the work is done wherever the machine can be walked to the stump, in a house yard or on managed grounds alike. A compact, rubber-tracked grinder fits through a 36-inch gate, so the fenced back yards in Rollingreen, Stadium Oaks, Meadowbrook and Westerly Forest are no harder to get at than a front lawn on the main road, and the tracks spread its weight so the turf is not rutted on the way in.
The same machine handles the residential job for a homeowner and the commercial one for a property manager: a common area at Waterford or Springfield Village, the strip along a parking lot, the row of stubs where a hedge came out near Parkwood Lake or Middlebrook. Where the tracks cannot go, we say so on the call rather than in the yard. What is left when the machine rolls off is next.
What the job leaves on the spot
The job leaves a filled, level spot behind, with the deeper roots left in the soil to decay. Standard residential grinding stops six to twelve inches down; then the crew packs the void with the "chip-and-soil" mix, rakes it flush and clears the debris off the lawn. The wheel takes what shows, the stump itself and the big roots at the surface for three to five feet around it, and the finer roots below that stay put and rot away over three to five years with nothing showing once the turf closes over. After stump grinding the hole sinks a little as the chips break down, and the hole, the chips and that settling are covered under what happens to the hole. Before any of that comes the price.
The question Clemmons owners ask first
The price is the first question, and it follows the stump's width at ground level. Every extra inch of width means more passes of the wheel, more time on the machine and more chips to deal with, so the measurement across the base, surface roots included, is the number to have ready when you call from Clemmons. Species and access shift it from there: a fresh oak grinds slower than a pine of the same width, and a stump behind a gate takes more setting up than one beside the drive. Several stumps done in one trip are priced as one visit, because the trip is the fixed part. The whole job is quoted before we start and nothing is added after; the bands a stump grinding cost falls into, inch by inch, are on our page on what stump grinding costs. The same quote holds in the towns next door.
More in the towns next door
The same round covers the towns next door. The machine that grinds in Clemmons goes on to Bermuda Run, Advance, Bethania, Winston-Salem and King on the same trips out of Lewisville, and nothing changes from one town to the next but the yard. Below are the three with a page to themselves.
The same round takes in Bethania
Bethania is covered by the round that covers Clemmons as well. Its page is about stump grinding where old trees have come down and left wide, weathered stumps, and it sits under older stumps in Bethania.
The same round takes in Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem is covered by the round that covers Clemmons as well. Its page is about stump grinding through narrow gates into tight city back yards, and it sits under narrow gates in Winston-Salem.
The same round takes in King
King is covered by the round that covers Clemmons as well. Its page is about stump grinding for hardwoods, the oak and hickory stumps that resist the teeth longest, and it sits under hardwood stumps in King.
Booking a Clemmons job
A Clemmons job is booked on the same call as any other. Give us the width at the base and the way in, and the whole thing is quoted before the machine leaves Lewisville; a call that goes to voicemail is returned the same working day. The tree stump job, grinding included, begins with tree stump grinding.
What neighbors in Clemmons and around say
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.
Clemmons. One visit. Level.
Width at the base, the way in, and the day you want it gone: that is the whole call. The spot is raked level when we leave.