Forestry Mulching
Forestry mulching grinds brush and small trees into a mulch layer where they stand. Nothing gets hauled off and nothing gets burned.
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Stump grinding is how you get rid of a stump without tearing up the yard around it. We do stump grinding in Shelby, NC and across Cleveland County, one stump or a whole tract. The cutting wheel chews the wood down below grade and turns the stump into chips. What is left is a low spot you can level out with soil and seed over.
A grinder handles the stump itself and leaves the roots in the ground. When the roots have to come out, we run excavators and a dozer with a root rake. Skid steers with a root grapple clean up the smaller root balls, and grapple trucks haul the wood off. We work within about 25 miles of Shelby, including Kings Mountain, Boiling Springs, Gastonia and Lincolnton.
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Grinding and removal are two different jobs, and the right one depends on your plans for the spot. Grinding cuts the stump down below grade and turns the wood into a pile of chips. We can rake those grindings back into the hole as fill, or load them out and haul them off. For a lawn or a garden bed, grinding is enough.
Full stump removal takes the stump and the roots out of the ground. We dig with an excavator and pull the root ball out with a root rake. Grapple trucks take the wood and the root balls off the property so nothing is left to burn. That leaves a hole, so we backfill it and pack the ground down before we leave.
Removal is the one to pick when something is getting built over that spot. Wood left in the ground rots, and the ground above it settles a few years later. A building pad or a driveway does not forgive that kind of dip. If you are setting posts or building a pad, we take the roots out.
The kind of tree matters around Shelby too. Pine and sweetgum send up shoots from roots left behind, and sweetgum is the worst about it. You can grind a sweetgum stump and still be cutting sprouts along the fence line next summer. When shoots are already coming up around a stump, we pull the roots instead of grinding it.
Price comes down to how much wood there is and how hard it is to reach. Stump count is the first thing, since one stump in a back yard is a short visit. A cleared lot with forty stumps is a different kind of day. Diameter matters as much as count, because a wide stump holds several times the wood of a small one.
Root spread is next. Some stumps sit in a tight ball, and others run roots out under a driveway or a fence line. Depth plays in too, since grinding for grass takes less time than digging a spot out to build-ready dirt. Removal costs more than grinding on the same stump, because it takes more machine time.
Access is the part people forget. A stump behind a narrow gate takes longer than one out in the open with room to work. Soft ground and buried lines slow the work down too, and we check for those before we start. Call (704) 600-8146 and we will come look at the stumps and give you a free estimate.
Most calls come from homeowners left with a stump after a tree came down. Storms do the same thing, and Cleveland County gets its share of them. Taking the tree down is tree removal, and that service has its own page. We come behind that work, grind the stump out and leave a spot you can seed.
Builders and land owners are the other side of this work. A cleared lot in Boiling Springs or Cherryville can hold dozens of stumps. Clearing the trees and brush off a tract first is land clearing, and that has its own page. Once a tract is down to stumps, we pull them with the excavator and backfill the holes.
Pasture edges and old fence lines bring in a steady share of calls. Stumps hidden in tall grass tear up a bush hog and bend a mower deck. Smoothing the ground back out afterward is grading, and we cover that on its own page. We grind and pull stumps in Dallas, Bessemer City, Cherryville, Forest City, Rutherfordton, Spindale, Lawndale and Grover.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Shelby, NC and 25 miles around.
(704) 600-8146From the first call to the last pass of the rake, here is how it goes.
Tell us where the land is and what you want it to do. We set a time to come see it, usually within a few days.
We look at the ground, the growth and the access in person. You get a real number and a plan before any machine moves.
Our own equipment rides in on our lowboy. Most residential jobs run one to three days, and you see progress the first morning.
Debris is mulched or hauled off and the ground is left ready to use. We look the job over with you before we leave.
Common questions about stump grinding across Shelby, NC and 25 miles around. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
Forestry mulching grinds brush and small trees into a mulch layer where they stand. Nothing gets hauled off and nothing gets burned.
Bush hogging for fields, pastures and overgrown lots around Shelby, NC. Our rotary cutters take down waist high growth, briar and small saplings, and put the ground back in shape.
Tree removal in Shelby, NC for leaning, dead and storm-downed trees. We drop them with machines and haul the wood off.
Land grading in Shelby, NC. We cut, fill and compact so your yard, pad or gravel drive sits flat and sheds water instead of holding it.
Excavation around Shelby, NC. Footings, driveway culverts, drainage trenches, pond banks and site prep, with the spoil hauled off in our grapple trucks.
We handle demolition in Shelby, NC. Barns, sheds, garages, mobile homes and small houses come down, and the debris leaves with us.
LDS Solutions runs the way a veteran-owned company should: show up on time, do the work right, leave the place better than you found it. Our own crew runs our own machines.
Tracked mulcher, skid steers, excavators, dozer and grapple trucks, all owned. Your job never waits on a rental yard, and the right machine is always on the trailer.
We come look at the ground in person, tell you what the job takes, and give you a real number before any machine moves. The estimate costs you nothing.
Red clay that ruts when wet, pine and privet that come back every summer, foothill slopes that shed rain sideways. We work this ground every week and plan for it.
Stump grinding runs about $100-$400 per stump and leaves the roots. Pulling the stump and roots out costs more but clears the spot for building. How to pick.
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Read more →Land to clear, a field to mow, trees down from a storm, or a building that needs to come down? Call or send the form. We come look at the ground in person and the estimate is free. We clear land. You build dreams.
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