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Bought a $900 stump grinder attachment for my skid steer - thought it was overkill until this week
I always rented a standalone stump grinder for $200 a day. Figured the attachment was too expensive and I'd never get my money back. Then I had to grind 14 stumps on a job near Richmond last month. Rented grinder would have taken 3 days and cost me $600 plus lost time hauling it. The attachment paid for itself on that one job alone. Now I'm kicking myself for not buying it 2 years ago. Anyone else made the jump to a grinder attachment and found it worth it?
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terry91418h ago
Man I was the exact same way. I watched a guy rent a grinder for two separate weekends and figured an attachment was just throwing money away. Then I borrowed a buddy's for a day and ran through 8 stumps in 3 hours. Bought one that week. The time savings alone is what got me. You don't realize how much you waste on pickup and dropoff until you just drive over and start grinding.
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morganj816h ago
That line about "wasting time on pickup and dropoff" hits hard. I was the same way, renting a grinder from the big box store and it would eat up half a Saturday just getting it loaded and unloaded. Once I bought a unit that lives in my shed, I started finding stumps I'd been ignoring for years. You start looking at old fence lines and overgrown corners and suddenly you're grinding stuff you wrote off as permanent landscape features. The convenience factor changes your whole approach to yard work honestly. Now if I see a stump I just walk over and start it up instead of planning a whole production around it.
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