Price guide for Lewisville, NC
What Stump Grinding Costs in Lewisville and What Sets the Price
Every quote in this trade starts from one measurement: the width of the stump at ground level. Here are the two ways a stump is priced, the minimum every visit carries, what moves the number up or down, and what the extras add.
Free, no-obligation estimates. Tell us the width and how we reach it, and the whole job is priced before we start.
What stump grinding costs in Lewisville
Grinding one stump commonly runs from about one hundred to four hundred dollars, set by the stump's width at ground level. That is the range the trade's published price lists agree on, and a second way of saying the same thing is about three dollars per inch of width. A narrow ornamental stump under a foot across sits at the bottom of the range and starts near seventy-five dollars. A stump between one and two feet across runs roughly one hundred to two hundred seventy-five. A wide hardwood past two feet starts near two hundred fifty and passes four hundred once dense oak is involved.
- Under 12 inches across
- $75 to $175
- 12 to 24 inches across
- $100 to $275
- Over 24 inches across
- $250 to $400 and up
Published trade ranges per stump, by width at ground level. They are the trade's figures, not a quote.
What yours comes to depends on the width, the wood and the path to it, which is why we ask three questions on the call and price the whole job before we start. The two models behind those figures are laid out below, and the tape comes first.
How a stump is measured
The stump is measured in inches across its widest point at ground level, and a sloped site is measured to the finished level. The widest point is usually the "root flare", where the trunk spreads out into the ground, and not the narrower cut face on top, so a tape laid across the flare gives the number the price is built on. On a bank or a slope the wheel has to cut further on the high side to leave the spot flat, and the measurement is extended to match. Measure yours the same way before you pick up the phone and the figure we give you will hold. Which model that inch count feeds into is the next question.
The two ways the trade prices a stump
The trade prices either by the inch of width or by a band of widths, and both sit on top of a minimum charge for the trip. Two models cover almost every quote.
- "By the inch" is a set rate per inch of width that steps up as the stump gets wider: on one published list, two dollars an inch up to thirty inches, three to forty-five, four to sixty and five past that.
- "By width band" is a fixed range for each band of width: on one list, ninety to one hundred fifty dollars up to twelve inches, one fifty to two twenty-five up to twenty-four, and on up by the band to four hundred and more past forty-eight inches.
- "Minimum charge" is a flat floor of roughly seventy-five to one hundred dollars that a narrow stump pays even when its inches come to less.
Either way the inches set the number and the minimum sets the floor.
The minimum for the trip
A minimum charge covers loading, towing and setting up, which cost the same whether the stump is small or wide. The machine is trailered to the yard, unloaded, walked to the stump and set at its edge before the first chip flies, and that work is the same for a six-inch shrub stub as for a two-foot oak. Published minimums in the trade sit around seventy-five to one hundred dollars, and most services hold a floor near one hundred, with a single wide stump of six feet across topping out near four hundred. So the cheapest stump on a list is never free of the trip, and the second stump on the same visit is always cheaper than the first. On a single stump, the drivers below are what move the number past the floor.
What moves the number
Width drives the number, and species, age, access and required depth move it from there. Five things change what a stump costs.
- WidthThe primary driver: a wider stump needs more passes, more machine time and more chips to manage.
- SpeciesDense wood resists the teeth, so oak and hickory take longer than pine at the same width.
- AgeA fresh green stump is dense and full of moisture; an old one has begun to rot and gives way sooner.
- AccessA gate, a slope, a fence line or a foundation close to the stump adds setting up and slows the cutting.
- DepthA grind deeper than the standard pass, for replanting or paving, is more passes and more spoil.
The root system counts too: a stump with a tangle of surface roots is more cutting than the trunk alone. Species is the one people ask about most.
Hardwood against softwood
A dense hardwood such as oak or hickory takes longer than pine at the same width, so it costs more. The carbide teeth shave a hardwood in thinner bites, and the wheel makes more passes to reach the same depth, so an oak two feet across is a longer job than a pine two feet across and is priced for the extra machine time. Pine, poplar and the softer yard trees give way fast. Tell us the species on the call if you know it; if you do not, describe the bark or the leaves and we will place it. Age matters nearly as much.
Old stumps against fresh ones
An old, part-rotted stump can give way faster than a fresh green one of the same width, which may bring the price down. Wood that has sat in the ground for a few seasons has dried, softened and begun to break down, and the teeth go through it in fewer passes, while a stump cut last week is still dense and full of sap and fights the wheel. An old stump is not always the cheaper one, since a wide stump is still wide, but at the same width the older one is the easier grind. Several stumps together change the arithmetic again.
Several stumps in one visit
The per-stump price drops well below the first stump's once several are done on one trip, because the travel and setup are already paid for. Across the trade, grinding several stumps on one visit brings the per-stump figure down by roughly thirty to fifty percent, and published volume discounts run about ten to fifteen percent a stump for two to five stumps and fifteen to twenty-five percent for six or more. That is why we ask on the call whether there is anything else in the yard: the shrub stubs along the fence, the second stump by the drive. A commercial site with a dozen stumps is the same arithmetic at scale, and how we price commercial stump grinding for property managers, builders and boards is set out under commercial lots and HOAs.
30 to 50%
lower per stump across the trade when several are ground on one trip, because the trip and the setup are paid once.
Three questions set the quote
How wide it is at the ground, what tree it was, and how we reach it. Tell us those and we price the whole job before we start, with no surprise charges after. We answer the phone or call back the same working day.
More on the price
Three further questions come up once the quote is in hand. What the extras add, what a deeper grind costs and whether a rented machine works out cheaper each get a short answer here and a fuller one on its own page.
Extras quoted on their own
Hauling the spoil away, filling with topsoil and seeding are quoted on top of the grind, as is grinding the roots that run out from the stump. The base price buys the grind and the chips raked back into the hole; the rest is added when you ask for it.
- Hauling the chips off and filling the hole with fresh soil, typically twenty-five to seventy-five dollars by the volume.
- Seed or sod over the filled spot.
- Surface roots, on published lists about a dollar fifty per running foot.
- Debris cleanup, which posted prices leave out.
What a deeper grind adds
A grind deeper than the standard pass is charged as an add-on, because it is more passes and more spoil. One published list charges seven dollars an inch with a "deep grind" at two dollars fifty an inch on top, and that is the shape of it everywhere: extra depth is extra machine time. The standard stump grinding depth for a lawn and the deeper depth for replanting are both set out on our depth page.
Whether renting works out cheaper
A day's rental plus towing and fuel can land close to a quoted stump, and the rented machine rarely reaches the depth that stops regrowth. Consumer rentals run about one hundred to three hundred dollars a day before towing, safety gear and your own labor, and they seldom grind past four to six inches, which leaves the growth point behind in most species. Verdict: for one stump the saving is thin, and the stump can come back. A rented stump grinder turns a smaller cutting wheel than ours, and how the cutting wheel works is explained on its own page.
What our neighbors 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.
Measure it, tell us what it was, and we quote the whole job.
Free, no-obligation estimates, the whole job priced before we start and no surprise charges after. We show up when we say we will and clean up when the work is done.