Back in January of 2025 payment was made to have this giant six foot high root ball ground down. Paul the tree service guy, said he needed to gang up several jobs since he needed to rent the root grinder for the job.
The job was rescheduled so many times it is hard to count. On May 9th the job was finally begun. The job was begun at the height of the hottest point of the day. Paul had two assistants. One moved wood chips aside once in a while while the woman sprayed the root ball with water to keep it from igniting from all the friction of the ginder.
The grinder worked differently than I thought it might. I thought it would grid horizontally from top to bottom like a record turntable. Instead it was more like a circular saw and it would be rotated horizontally along the tree stump that was lying on the ground. It made quite a racket and wood chips flew everywhere.
The workers surrounded the air conditioner unit with a piece of plywood and a garbage can. The goal was to keep wood chips from flying into the AC unit.up. Surrounding the AC Unit as they did however ended up cutting off air flow to the unit and the house started to heat up. Time was spend messing with the air conditioner control panel, but cool air didn’t flow again until the obstructions were removed.
Work was stopped when a huge rain storm rolled in. The one rain barrel I had st up filled almost instantly and started to overflow. Gutters clogged with dirt despite all the attempts I made to keep pine needles and dirt from getting to the downspouts. I took pictures of the lake that instantly formed in the back yard. The hope is to fill inn the lowest sections of the yard with mulch. Conveniently the stump grinding job left behind quite a bit of mulch which just needs to be shoveled to other lowest sections of the yard. It is a hard job best done in the early morning of evening as it cools off.
