Written by The Proleaf Team.

Aug 12, Angle grinder cutting wheel on tree roots?

Had a tree get taken out by recent storm in my yard. Got it all chopped up using a chainsaw. Now I'm pulling the stump out with a farm jack. I've been using a sawzall to cut the roots as the farm jack pulls the roots up to make them more accessible. I've got one massive root or possibly several very. This is a perfect example of when a stump grinder can remove roots. The grinder chips away at the roots and turns them into wood chips or mulch. Stump grinders are not precision machines so they will churn up the soil quite a bit.

The wood chips generated will need to be removed, topsoil placed down and the grass will need to be shrubcleanup.barted Reading Time: 3 mins. Mar 21, The stump removal process is the more intrusive of the two.

Grinding is much more efficient than stump removal, however, it does leave the tree's roots behind. If the stump is large, the chip pile produced can also be quite large, but the chips. Jan 21, A 2 inch root can hold the weight of 2 elephants, but a 4 inch root can hold the weight of 10 elephants. That's a bunch of support you are potentially removing from a tree, so be carefull how much you remove.