Grinding tree stumps is a highly efficient process for removing them. The results of stump grinding leave your yard looking clean and crisp, but the aesthetics aren’t the only reason this matters. Stump grinding is important for maintaining your yard due to several different factors.
Safety First
Your outdoor spaces and landscaping should always factor in safety as the highest priority. A tree stump can be a huge safety risk for trips and falls, particularly if vegetation or grass hides it. Injuries to friends, family, and other visitors could be severe and carry legal liabilities. Tree stumps can be incredibly cumbersome when kids are playing or anyone is doing lawn maintenance.
Visual Appeal
While visual appeal isn’t the most important reason to grind a stump, it matters to many homeowners. A tree stump is can be unsightly and distract from the natural beauty you’ve crafted around it. If you ever try to sell your home, your real estate professional is bound to tell you that stumps lower your home’s curb appeal. They might even lower the property value in some cases.
Freedom of Space
Stumps take up valuable space above the ground, and their roots might keep growing underground until they interfere with pipes and utilities. Navigating around tree stumps while mowing or working in your yard complicates your tasks, and they take up precious space that you could use for other plants or a swing set, patio, or pool.
Preventing Disease and Infestation
Beetles, ants, and termites need breeding grounds, and tree stumps are some of their favorites. They can spread to healthy trees and even your home if this happens. Extermination fees can eat into your budget, but repairing the damage and havoc they create can cost even more. Stumps left over from diseased trees can spread their pathogens to healthy vegetation around them.
Deciding What Grows
You might think that a tree stump is the dead remains of a fallen tree, but many stumps can start sprouting again with new growth. Stump grinding prevents this by permanently removing the stump and the roots. This encourages new growth by giving you room for new plantings that don’t have to compete with stump roots for nutrients and water in the soil.
Turn to the Professionals
When landscaping the terrain around your home, it’s easier to find the motivation to manicure your lawn or plant flowers you know will fill the landscape with color sooner or later. Finding the initiative to remove a stump is more challenging. Still, you can delegate this to professional arborists who have the tools, techniques, and experience to grind any stump you have with ease.
If you live in the Plymouth, MN area, schedule stump grinding with Woodland Tree Service.
