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Originally Posted by Bwana
Yeah It looks like I bought the right stuff for sure.
I called the rental outfit to check on the price of a stump grinder and they are $200 a day. I was excited until he told be he wouldn't recommend using it on anything bigger that 20 inches. One stump is 34 and the other is 36. 
I was shooting the shit with one of my neighbors and asked him if he knew anyone that grinds stumps. He didn't but called another guy that hooked me up with a guy he used. The stump wrangler came over and told me if I paid him in cash and did the chip cleanup that he would do them both for $275. The two other guys I talked to were closer to $800-850. I asked when can you get started? They should be a memory by the end of this weekend.  I just didn't want to chance pouring a new sidewalk and having a rouge root around that would heave my new sidewalk. |
Normally after grinding, you leave the chips mounded up & they rot down to level. In this case, rake out the chips from under where the sidewalk will be then backfill & compact the dirt or baserock.
If you pour the sidewalk over a layer of chips, they will rot away leaving a void under the sidewalk.
Which will proceed to crack and fall in.