Tri-County
Stump GrindingVaiden, Mississippi
Call 601-573-1836
Vaiden, Mississippi · Carroll County

We’ll grind 1 stump to 100.

Tri-County Stump Grinding travels throughout Central and North Mississippi. Call Lance Evans and he’ll come look at it.

Estimates are free. The number rings Lance, not an office.

Vermeer SC352 stump grinder standing on a mound of fresh grindings, backfill blade forward
Vermeer SC352 · a job finished and backfilled
  • 14 inMax cut below grade
  • 40 inCutter sweep
  • 35 hpVermeer SC352
  • 1–100Stumps per job
Got stumps?

The tree is gone. The stump is still yours.

A stump does not rot away on any schedule you’d be happy with, and until it’s out you are mowing around it, mulching around it and explaining it to whoever next looks at the yard.

It grows back

Cut a hardwood off at the ground and a lot of species will send shoots straight back up out of the stump and the roots. Grinding it out ends that.

An old stump with fresh shoots growing out of it
Shoots coming back out of an old stump

It is in the way

Mower blades, string trimmers, ankles, a fence line you want to run, a slab you want to pour. A stump sits exactly where you didn’t want anything.

Clean sawn stump standing in a green lawn before grinding
A sawn stump left standing in the middle of a lawn

It can be gone today

Most single stumps are a short job. The machine drives to it, grinds it out below grade, and the grindings go back into the hole.

A tidy mown lawn with barely a trace of where the stump was
The same kind of yard once the stump is out and the ground is raked back
How a job goes

Four steps, and you don’t have to do any of them.

  1. You show us

    Point at the stumps

    Mark them, flag them, or just walk out and point. If there are a lot of them, that’s fine — that is the job we like.

    A stump marked with red flagging tape before grinding
  2. We get to it

    Drive the machine in

    The SC352 is self-propelled on four wheels, so it walks to the stump under its own power instead of being dragged across your yard.

    The grinder working a stump on a slope at the edge of a lawn
  3. The cutting

    Grind it out below grade

    The wheel sweeps side to side and takes the stump down past ground level, then keeps going into the root flare where it needs to.

    The grinder working at a freshly cut light-coloured stump
  4. Before we leave

    Grindings back in the hole

    The blade on the front pushes the pile back where the stump was and it gets raked out. You are left with a mound of chips, not a crater.

    A rake laid across the grindings after the stump was ground out
The four things people ask

Straight answers, with the numbers.

How deep do you grind?

The SC352 will cut to 14 inches below grade and sweeps a 40 inch path. Most yards do not need all of it — a few inches under the surface is enough to put grass back over the top. If you are replanting a tree in the same spot, or pouring something, say so and we go deeper.

A work boot beside a ground-out stump, showing how far below grade the cut goes
A boot beside a finished cut, for scale.

What happens to all the chips?

They go back into the hole. That is what the blade on the front of the machine is for. What you are left with is a mound of wood grindings sitting slightly proud of the lawn, which settles over the following weeks.

We do not haul the grindings off as a matter of course. If you want them gone rather than left, ask before we start and we’ll talk about it.

Pile of grindings with the ground-out hole still visible beneath
Grindings pushed back over the hole.

Can you get it into my back yard?

Usually. The SC352 is a compact four-wheel machine, not a tractor, and it goes through gates, down side passages and up against fences, walls and landscaping. Several of the jobs on this site were ground within inches of a chain-link fence, a patio and a propane tank.

Tell us about the gate when you call. Give us the width and whether there is a step or a slope, and Lance will tell you straight away whether it fits.

The cutter wheel grinding a stump hard against a chain-link fence
Grinding hard up against a chain-link fence.

How big, and how many?

Big or small, we grind them all. One stump by the mailbox or a hundred across a field — it is the same machine and the same phone call. The big hardwood below took the full sweep of the wheel.

A very large hardwood stump with a boot beside it for scale
Boot for scale again. This one was not small.

More questions answered

The machine

A Vermeer SC352. Not “modern equipment”.

Everybody in this trade says they run good equipment. Here is ours, by name, with the manufacturer’s numbers next to it, and it is in almost every photograph on this website.

Vermeer SC352 published specifications
ModelVermeer SC352
Engine35 hpGas
Cut below grade14 in
Cutter sweep40 in
Base machine width35 inFits most standard gates. Ours runs dual rear wheels, so call and check yours before you count on it.
DriveSelf-propelledFour wheels, with a backfill blade on the front

More about the machine

Vermeer SC352 stump grinder parked beside a weathered stump, cutter wheel and teeth visible
Cutter wheel and teeth, lined up on the next one.
Our work

Every photograph here is a stump we ground.

Not one stock picture on this website. These are Mississippi yards, our machine, and our grindings.

A very large hardwood stump with a boot beside it for scale
Several cut stumps and heavy grindings across one property
Large sawn oak stump waiting to be ground
Freshly cut pale stump surrounded by ivy
Wide lawn with a house and fence behind, stump area ground flat
Large ground-out area with tyre tracks, water in the background
Hollow burnt stump wedged against patio stone and landscaping
Grindings blending back into the surrounding grass

All 55 photographs

What a customer said

A customer’s comment

“Great job at my house.”

Eddie Fancher · August 2026

That is the one we have, so that is the one we are showing you. This is a young business with a real machine and a real phone number, not a wall of reviews.

If we have already been out to your place, we would be glad to have your words here too. Say so when you call, or leave it on our Facebook page.

Where we work

Out of Vaiden, across Central and North Mississippi.

The truck and trailer are based at Vaiden in Carroll County, and the machine travels. If you are within a reasonable drive and you have stumps, call and ask — Lance will tell you yes or no on the phone rather than waste your time.

Call and ask 601-573-1836

Pickup truck and equipment trailer on a gravel drive
The rig. It comes to you.

Got stumps?

Call Lance Evans and describe what you have got. Estimates are free, and the number goes straight to the man who runs the machine.