Can you use a stump grinder to grind up tree trunks lying on the ground?

[Winchman]

Seems like you could remove all the small stuff, and just start grinding the tree from the top to get a bunch of chips that would be easy to deal with. Of course you'd have to be careful with the last couple feet. Would that work? Anyone actually tried it?

 

[Merle Nelson]

Sure it would work. Only problem is you would want to stick a fork in your eye before you were done because it would be so mind numblingly slow.

I've ground logs of trees that had degraded too much to turn into firewood when cleaning up forested properties.

 

[climbingmonkey24]

I wonder how much more quickly that would dull the blades though on a solid tree, etc.

Don’t want to dull the blades grinding up a whole tree only to then move onto the stump and find yourself in trouble.

 

[Gorman]

I wonder how much more quickly that would dull the blades though on a solid tree, etc.

Don’t want to dull the blades grinding up a whole tree only to then move onto the stump and find yourself in trouble.

The teeth wouldn’t dull unless you hit a rock or gravel.

 

[Gorman]

Sure it would work. Only problem is you would want to stick a fork in your eye before you were done because it would be so mind numblingly slow.

I've ground logs of trees that had degraded too much to turn into firewood when cleaning up forested properties.

This is not a bad idea to get rid of rotten logs.

 

[Reach]

It would work, just be careful as the log gets smaller - the the grinder may dig in and throw the log when the log gets small enough.

 

[flushcut]

Sounds like a horrible idea to me. IMO it's much easier to pick up a log in one piece than a log that has been turned into millions of smaller pieces with considerably more volume.

 

[flushcut]

P.S. by stump grinder you mean forestry mower.

 

[Gorman]

P.S. by stump grinder you mean forestry mower. View attachment 75252

Showing off are we?

 

[flushcut]

It's a rental. I wish it were mine.

 

[climbingmonkey24]

It's a rental. I wish it were mine.

Do you have a trailer to tow that yourself or do they deliver?

 

[islandedge]

I have done it on a large cottonwood tree that fell into a canal. Real tight back yard to get in there with equipment. It was down hill and would have taken days to get that wood out. Hitched the bandit 1890 to a f250 and squeezed it down there. We chipped everything we could fit threw the machine on to the ground. Next we grinded the butt logs that were rotted to get them to thr point to fit in the chipper. Everything stayed behind and we just spread the chips along the water side of the canal.

 

[flushcut]

Do you have a trailer to tow that yourself or do they deliver?

Fabco Rents they deliver.