Lewisville, NC and Forsyth County
Stump Removal in Lewisville, NC
We take the stump out of your Lewisville yard by grinding it to chips below the lawn, surface roots included, and rake the spot level before we leave. Tell us how wide it is at the base and how we reach it, and the quote is set on the call.
Free, no-obligation estimates. We answer the phone or call back the same working day.
Stump removal in Lewisville, NC
Stump removal at a Lewisville property is one visit that takes the cut stump out by grinding it away below grade, and what stays in the soil is what separates it from digging. The machine is a stump grinder: a spinning wheel with carbide teeth shaves the stump and its root flare into chips, pass after pass, until nothing is left within several inches of the surface. Grinding does not pull roots out of the earth; pulling the full root ball is a separate, more involved excavation, with a bigger hole, heavier equipment and a torn-up yard to match.
Tommy's Stump Grinding does the grinding kind in Lewisville, NC and the towns around it. That is the removal most yards want: the stump gone from sight and from under the mower, the surface level, grass back over the spot, and no trench across the lawn. Digging is kept for the few cases where the roots themselves have to go. The rest of this page walks through the visit, the price, and what is left behind when the machine rolls back onto the trailer.
How the stump comes out
The stump is cut low, ground down through the root flare and taken below grade, and the spoil is raked back into the hole. One visit covers the whole job: the stump, the root flare and the surface roots around it, with one machine and the same crew from the first pass to the raking.
- Lines markedBuried gas, water and power lines near the stump are marked first, through the free locate that a call to 811 starts.
- Low cutA stump still standing tall gets a fresh "low cut" close to the turf, so the wheel starts its work at the lawn instead of a foot above it.
- Root flareThe wheel shaves the stump and then the "root flare" where the trunk spreads into the roots, following the surface roots out until they dive too deep.
- Below gradeGrinding goes on, pass after pass, until the wood sits six to twelve inches "below grade", the standard residential depth.
- Rake levelThe chip-and-soil mix goes back into the hole and is raked level, or the chips are hauled off when you ask, and the crew clears the debris around the spot.
The gear, the guarding and the handling of the machine follow the tree care guidance from OSHA and the NC Department of Labor, and the Z133 standard behind the Tree Care Industry Association. The price is set before any of it starts.
What the job costs
Removal by grinding is priced from the stump's width at ground level, with a minimum for the trip. Width is measured across the widest part at the base, surface roots included, and a wide fresh oak takes more passes than a narrow pine, so it costs more. The minimum covers getting the machine there and set up, which is why several stumps on one visit cost less each than the same stumps on separate days; hauling the chips away is its own line. We quote the whole job before we start, with no surprise charges after, and the bands behind a stump grinding cost, inch by inch, are laid out on our page on what stump grinding costs. What stays behind once the price is paid is the next question.
What stays behind
Grinding takes the stump and the roots near the surface, and the deeper roots stay in the soil and decay over several years. The wheel reaches the visible stump and the major roots within three to five feet of it, eight to twelve inches down; the finer roots and the ones that dive under that depth stay where they are and break down on their own over three to five years. Nothing of them shows from above once the spot is raked level. Getting every root out means full excavation, which is the digging job covered further down this page. The surface roots are the ones you can see, and they go in the same visit.
The roots at the surface
The roots that break the surface within a few feet of the stump are ground down in the same visit. The wheel follows each raised root out from the root flare, usually three to five feet from the center of the stump, and stops where the root dives too deep to chase. That takes the ridges the mower catches on with the stump, instead of leaving a ring of them around a level patch. Tell us on the call if roots are showing, since the width the wheel has to cover is part of the quote. When the raised roots are the whole problem and the stump is long gone, that surface root work is the same grinding on its own visit; see surface root grinding. Which towns the machine reaches is the last thing to settle.
Towns in the service area
Removal is booked in Lewisville and the towns around it, for houses and for commercial sites alike. The machine goes most weeks to these towns:
- Lewisville
- Clemmons
- Bethania
- Winston-Salem
- King
- Walkertown
- Kernersville
- Bermuda Run
- Tobaccoville
- Rural Hall
- Advance
- Yadkinville
A single stump in a back yard and a row of them along a commercial lot are booked the same way, by width and access, and a town farther out than these is a question for the call. Every town in the service area of Tommy's Stump Grinding is listed, one by one, on the service area around Lewisville page. A few other questions come up once the price is known.
Tell us the width and the way in
Say how wide the stump is at the base, whether roots are showing, and how the machine gets to it. We quote the whole job on the call, we show up when we say we will, and we clean up when the work is done.
More on removal
Two further questions come up once the price is known. Both are answered in full on their own pages, and the short version of each is below: whether digging the stump out beats grinding it, and whether anything left in the earth grows back.
Digging it out instead
Digging the root ball out costs several times as much and disturbs far more of the yard, so it is kept for a build or a replant in the same spot. Full excavation runs two to four times the price of grinding, with heavier equipment, more labor and a bigger cleanup, and it earns that when a new tree goes in the same hole, a footing is going over it, or the roots have reached a line or a foundation. Full stump removal and grinding are set side by side, cost and depth compared, on their own page. The leftover roots are the last question.
Whether what is left grows back
No: grinding below the root collar takes out the growth center, so the ground-out stump does not sprout again, and the roots left behind decay where they lie. A flush cut leaves that center in place, which is why a stump sawn off at the lawn sends up shoots and a stump ground below its flare does not. What the leftover roots do over the years, their decay and grafts to a neighbouring tree, is followed on our page on leftover roots.
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.
Out of the yard in one visit.
Tell us how wide the stump is at the base and how we reach it. Free, no-obligation estimates, the whole job quoted before we start, and the spot raked level when we leave.