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Wilmington has old trees standing in old yards. Live oaks and longleaf pines sit in neighborhoods built long before the current wave of growth. When one comes down, the stump stays behind in a tight yard with fences and irrigation close by. Coastal Brush Mowing has ground stumps like that since 2013, and Wilmington is about 32 miles south of Burgaw.
Grinding is the finish step after a tree comes out of a Wilmington yard. We take the stump down below grade so the spot can be filled, seeded or paved over. Sandy Wilmington soil grinds fast, but roots run wide and shallow, so surface roots need chasing out too. See our stump grinding page for how the process runs on any property.
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Most Wilmington stumps sit on small city lots with something built on every side. Access is the first question: gate width, fence posts, a heat pump pad or a raised patio. A tracked skid steer fits through many gates, and an excavator can reach large root balls where there is room. If nothing fits, a fence panel comes off and goes back on when we finish.
Buried lines matter more than the stump does. Cape Fear Public Utility Authority runs water and sewer under Wilmington and much of New Hanover County. Irrigation heads, drip line and low voltage wiring sit shallower still, right where a grinder works. North Carolina law requires an 811 locate before digging, and the marks take three working days.
Hurricane Florence came ashore near Wilmington in 2018. New Hanover County hauled off hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of vegetative debris after that storm. Plenty of those trees were cut at the ground and left, so storm stumps still turn up years later. Sand settles around them and grass grows over the top, which hides how big the root plate is.
Calls come from homeowners, tree services that cut but do not grind, and builders clearing a lot. Property managers call about stumps in parking islands, and agents call when one shows up on an inspection. If a lot has many stumps under heavy brush, land clearing in Wilmington takes it all in one trip. The Wilmington page lists the rest of what we run in New Hanover County.
More about the service itself is on our Stump Grinding page, and everything we do around town is on the Wilmington 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.
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