Questions people actually ask.

Our Vermeer SC352 cuts to 14 inches below grade. Most lawns do not need anything like that — a few inches under the surface is plenty to put grass back over. Tell us if you want it deeper and we will go deeper.

They go back into the hole. The blade on the front of the machine pushes the pile over the cavity and it gets raked out, so you are left with a mound of grindings rather than a crater. The mound settles over the following weeks.

We do not haul the grindings away as standard. If you want them gone, say so before we start rather than after.

Usually, yes. The base SC352 is a 35 inch wide machine, which clears most standard gates, and it is self-propelled so it walks in rather than being dragged. Ours runs dual rear wheels, so give us the width of your narrowest gate on the phone rather than assuming either way.

We have ground stumps hard against chain-link fence, patio stone, a house corner and a propane tank. Those photographs are all on the work page.

It is a compact machine on rubber tyres, not a tracked excavator. You may get wheel marks in soft ground, especially after rain. You will not get the ruts and the torn ground that come with digging a stump out.

No. Once the stump and the root collar are ground out there is nothing left to push new shoots from. A stump that is merely cut off at ground level will very often sprout again — there is a photograph of exactly that on our grinding vs removal page.

Grinding takes out the stump and the root flare around it. The deeper root system is left in the ground, where it rots down on its own over the following years and does no harm. If you need the roots out too, that is excavation, not grinding, and it is a different job with a different machine.

Yes, once the grindings settle. Wood chips are not soil, so most people rake some of the mound off, drop topsoil in and seed over it. If that is your plan, tell us and we will take it down a bit further while we are there.

Say so before we start. A standard grind leaves wood in the ground that a young root system will not enjoy. We can go deeper and take more of the root mass out, but it needs to be part of the job from the beginning.

We will grind 1 stump to 100. A single stump is a perfectly normal call. A field full of them is the call we like best, because the per-stump price falls the more there are.

It helps if you are there at the start so you can point out the stumps, the sprinkler heads, the septic lid and anything else buried that we would not know about. After that it is up to you.

It happens more often than you would think — old fence wire, nails, a hook somebody drove in forty years ago. It is hard on the teeth, so tell us if you know about anything in there. If we hit something unexpected we stop and talk to you rather than keep going.

An average single stump is a short job rather than a day. Size, access and how many you have are what move it. Lance will give you a realistic idea when you describe it on the phone.

Yes. Describing it on the phone costs you nothing, and if it needs looking at in person, that costs you nothing either.

We are based at Vaiden in Carroll County and travel throughout Central and North Mississippi. If you are wondering whether you are too far out, call and ask — you will get a straight yes or no rather than a runaround.