St. George Tree Service
St. George, Ontario
Free written estimates (226) 546-3835
Stump grinding and removal deals with whatever is left in the ground after a tree removal, and it can happen whenever you are ready. Stump grinding and removal gets its own price rather than being buried inside the felling total, which keeps the choice with you. We carry full insurance and work throughout St. George and South Dumfries.
Call (226) 546-3835.
Stump grinding runs a toothed wheel at speed, cutting the stump into chip a layer at a time. Successive passes work down and sideways until the ground is level again.
Chip is left in the cavity by default. Most customers use it as backfill and cap the top with soil.
Moraine till around St. George is high in lime and carries stone all through it. Where the ground is silt or clay, grinding runs at a steady, predictable rate.
Stone changes that. The wheel strikes it under full load, the teeth absorb the shock, and the identical face takes half as long again to clear. Both conditions are common here. They do not cost the same, and your quote states which one you have.
Depth depends on your plans for that patch of ground, and the number is fixed on the quote beforehand:
- Six inches under grade covers a lawn, since grass roots never run deep - Deeper under a new flower bed, so young roots find soil instead of compressed chip - Deeper again beneath concrete, a shed pad or post holes, following the lateral roots out from the stump - Shallowest and cheapest of all where you only want the mower to clear it
Three details shift the cost of stump grinding and removal, which is why we ask about them. Mentioning them on the first call saves time:
- Buried services of any kind, because a grinding wheel meets pipe and cable under full load, and drawings for the older St. George streets are often wrong - How wide the entrance is, since a standard yard gate admits only the small machine - Stone or ancient fence wire swallowed by the trunk, capable of writing off an entire set of teeth
Yes. Across the first year the chip and soil blend settles, so budget for one top-up.
Finish the backfill a little proud of the lawn. Clay holds onto whatever collects in a hollow, since the ground surrounding it drains slowly as well.
There is no need to live with a stump in the lawn. Stump grinding and removal covers St. George, Blue Lake and the South Dumfries concessions, and the quote costs nothing.
Call (226) 546-3835. Our full list of tree services is on the home page.
One tree usually needs more than one thing done to it. The remaining services appear below.
Slow growth on this ground means a tree holds whatever shape tree trimming and pruning gives it for a long time, so the work is worth getting right the first time. We carry full insurance and take on pruning and trimming at houses and on larger properties right across St. George and South Dumfries.
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More calls come in about dead branch removal than about anything else we do. We carry full insurance and take on dead branch removal at any height, anywhere in St. George and South Dumfries.
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Emergency storm damage cleanup has to happen quickly when a tree lets go with no warning. We carry full insurance and pick up this line after hours everywhere in St. George and South Dumfries. Where a hydro line has been caught up in it, the utility gets the first call and we get the second.
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Tree removal rests on three grounds. Death of the tree is the first. A structural defect no cut can reach is the second. The third is a planting position that was never large enough for the mature tree.
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Too much density or too much spread in a crown can nearly always be put right by crown thinning and canopy reduction, without damaging the tree. The two treatments are crown thinning and canopy reduction. We carry full insurance and perform both on mature trees in St. George and South Dumfries.
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Tree cabling and bracing is the answer when a weak union appears in an otherwise good tree, and it is not automatically a reason to fell it. Tree cabling and bracing will hold that tree together for years to come. We carry full insurance and fit both across St. George and South Dumfries, and we will tell you straight when steel is not the right answer.
View Tree Cabling and BracingSay what is wrong and where the property is. Once we have been out, a written quote follows setting out the method, the fate of the debris, and every exclusion.
If you know the species and rough height, include them, and always include the road, because access shifts a price more than size ever does. Note what sits below the tree. Flag storm damage as urgent. The only field we truly need is a way of reaching you. If you would prefer to talk it through, call (226) 546-3835.