Daily Home Renovation Tips

We will soon begin a large series of articles about the ‘renovation‘  :-)  of the main and two subsidiary gardens at the front of our home.

For now, however, we will jump ahead and discuss the removal of tree stumps.

Why? Well a friend of mine in New York City, Dan K. (or known to me as ‘brother Dan’) was intrigued about the method used by a contractor to remove tree stumps from our front garden. So, I told him I would write about the method and machine used by the contractor.

First, the need.

Here is a picture of the front garden of our home, or if you will, the ‘before‘ picture.

If you look carefully you will see a crab apple tree to the immediate right of the garage, a large evergreen in the middle and another large evergreen on the left. For our garden renovation all three had to go.

We asked Bruce and his crew (our primary contractor last year) to include the removal of the crab apple tree and the middle evergreen, which they did; the tree stump remained.

Here is what was left of the crab apple tree stump after they tried initially to remove it by hand (in the middle of the picture). It was not going to happen manually.

And, here’s a closer look of the stumps for the two trees, first the crab apple tree stump followed by the evergreen tree stump:

So, this spring, near the start of our front garden makeover we called in a local company who specialized in tree removal. Did they do the job? Absolutely!

Here are ‘after‘ pictures with the stumps ‘removed’, first again the former location for the crab apple tree followed by the former location of the evergreen tree.

So, how did we get form the before to the after?  Return tomorrow and see the equipment that this specialist used. To continue with the next article in this series, simply select this link to Part 2.