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Country boy.

Wouldn't have wanted to fork this load onto the trailer. Two pine stumps, their mounds, and a bit below grade to cap with top soil.

The truck, trailer, grinders, and chipper are all paid for, the loader isn't thigh. My hourly rate with the loader pays for it working 4 hours a month. Not saying your setup doesn't work, I'm saying it's too much like work for my long term goals.

Even with a wheel loader, 60" bucket, and a 25 yard trailerl; cleanup is hardly the "cat's ass" around here. On little stumps it's easy, sure. But add a lot of surface roots and it becomes a pain. One stump I ground last week hauled off the excess with the loader (on site doing tree work...

I agree, Dave. Pi x r^2= Volume of a circle. If you double diameter, you've quadrupled the amount of wood in the stump. Tiered by the inch works, although it can add to the confusion for the customer (sometimes used by grinder's to avoid having to go out and do so many bids).

The way I read it he's cleaning the stump up for $6/ inch. I rarely do cleanup, my hourly rate is $300/hr with my 85 hp self propelled grinder.