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A new house in Hampstead almost always leaves stumps behind. The builder clears the pad. The tree crew drops what is close to the roof. The cut ends stay in the ground. A year later they are why your mower bounces and your yard has soft holes. We do stump grinding across Hampstead and the rest of Pender County. Coastal Brush Mowing has been at this since 2013, and the owner runs the machines. You get the same person on the phone and on the job.
Hampstead lots sit on sandy coastal plain soil, and pine stumps rot slow in it. A stump left in a future lawn sinks over time and leaves a low spot. Around Olde Point Country Club off Country Club Drive, we see stumps that have sat for years. Storm season adds more of them. Hurricanes snap trunks, a saw crew cuts the break off at knee height, and the base stays put. We grind those down below grade so grass or beds can go over them.
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A builder clearing a Hampstead homesite has one job: get the pad open and the driveway in. Stumps outside that footprint stay where they are. The same goes for a tree crew called out for one dead pine over the driveway. They take the tree and leave the base. Six months later you are putting in sod, and there are eight stumps in the way. That is when most people call us. We work behind builders and tree crews on lots that are already cleared.
We grind the stump down below grade, usually six to ten inches under the surface. If sod or a driveway is going over it, we go deeper. The grindings drop back into the hole as mulch. Sandy soil settles fast here, so we mound the fill a little above grade. Big root balls near a foundation or a septic line come out whole with the excavator instead. We move the spoil with the tracked skid steer and haul it in the dump truck.
Access is the part people forget. A stump behind the house on a wooded lot can sit past a fence or over soft ground. We look at the route in before we price the job. Mark your septic tank lids and your well head if you know where they are. Most Hampstead lots run on both, and neither takes machine weight well. On tight yards we come in along the least damaging line and put the ground back when we finish.
Stump grinding usually comes with other site work. If the lot is still in trees, the stumps are part of a bigger land clearing job in Hampstead. If the yard is open and rough, it wants a cut first. Once the stumps are out, the low spots left behind take fill and a light grade before seed goes down. See our main stump grinding page for the details, or ask for an estimate.
More about the service itself is on our Stump Grinding page, and everything we do around town is on the Hampstead service-area page.
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Land to clear, an old structure to take down, brush that's won too many summers, or a pond you've been thinking about for years? Call or send the form. We come look at the property with you and the estimate is free, from the owner who has worked this ground since 2013.
Tell us about your property and we'll get back to you fast.