Stump grinding
in Kansas City.
Ground 8 to 12 inches below grade, chips raked back into the hole, lawn ready to seed. Most yards are done in under two hours.
Licensed and insured · Free estimates · Chips hauled off or left as mulch
Services
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Stump grinding
The wheel takes the stump to 8 to 12 inches below grade so you can sod, seed, plant, or pour over it.
$3 per inch · $125 minimum
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Four or more in one visit
Fence lines, hedgerows, a lot cleared after a takedown. The machine is already on the trailer, so the rate drops.
$2.50 per inch
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Surface roots
Roots lifting a sidewalk, cracking a driveway apron, or scalping under the mower deck. Ground flush and back-filled.
$75 per hour
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Chip haul-off
A ground stump makes a surprising pile. We can load it out, or leave it for your beds. Say which when you call.
$50 per stump
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Topsoil and seed
Chips out, topsoil in, fescue seed and straw over the top so the patch grows back instead of sinking.
$40 per stump
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Storm work
After a line of wind comes through, we run longer days and take same-week calls first. Call and we will tell you where you land.
Quoted on site
How the price is figured
Stumps are priced by diameter, measured across the widest point at ground level, not by how tall the tree was. A tape measure and thirty seconds gets you the number.
We quote before the machine comes off the trailer, and the quote is what you pay. If a stump turns out to be sitting on a slab or wrapped around a gas line, we stop and talk to you rather than run the meter.
Utility locate is free and takes about three business days in Missouri and Kansas. We call it in for you on every job with digging near a line.
A worked example
- 24 inch silver maple
- 24 × $3 = $72
- Under the $125 minimum, so
- $125
- Topsoil and seed over the hole
- $40
- Total
- $165
Grinding takes about forty minutes. You keep the chips or we take them.
The work
Before we arrive
Not required, but it keeps the machine off the things that cost money.
- Flag your sprinkler heads and invisible fence. Both sit shallow and both are invisible to us. Marking paint or a golf tee is plenty.
- Measure your narrowest gate. The tracked machine needs 42 inches. The walk-behind gets through 36. Under that, a panel usually has to come off the fence.
- Move what is close. Planters, hoses, low branches, patio furniture, anything within about fifteen feet of the stump.
- Point out the septic lateral field if you have one. We keep the machine off it.
- You do not have to be home. Plenty of jobs are quoted by photo, done while you are at work, and paid after.
Service area
Both sides of the state line, roughly out to the far ring of the metro.
- Kansas City, MO
- Overland Park
- Olathe
- Lee's Summit
- Independence
- Blue Springs
- Liberty
- Gladstone
- Raytown
- Shawnee
- Lenexa
- Prairie Village
- Leawood
- Merriam
- Mission
- Grandview
- Belton
- Raymore
- North Kansas City
- Parkville
- Riverside
- Smithville
- Kearney
- Platte City
- Bonner Springs
- Grain Valley
- Oak Grove
- Peculiar
Past that ring we still come out, with a $40 trip charge quoted before you agree to anything.
Tell us the stump and we will quote it today.
Fastest way is a phone call. Second fastest is a photo of the stump with a tape measure or a shoe next to it, texted to the same number.