Stump Grinding Photos from Gallatin, TN Jobs

No Stock Photography, and Here Is What That Costs Us

A licensed stump grinding photograph shows a machine we may not own, on a lawn in a state where the soil behaves differently, finished by somebody else. It is a decorative image. It tells you nothing about whether the company you are about to call does good work.

So this gallery grows one job at a time, and for the first year it is going to look sparse next to competitors who bought a folder of images before their site went live. That is the trade, and we are making it on purpose.

While you are comparing galleries anywhere, three things are worth looking at in any after photo. Look at the ground six inches outside the grind, because a sloppy operator's damage shows up there rather than in the hole. Look for tire tracks across the lawn. And look at whether the grindings were tamped back level or heaped into a mound that will settle into a saucer by spring.

What We Photograph on Every Job

Four shots, and the same four every time. The stump before, with a tape or a bucket beside it so the size is not a matter of opinion. The grind at working depth with a tape standing in the hole, because depth claimed in inches should be visible in inches. The backfill tamped and raked level. And, where we can get back, the same square of ground after a rain or two, which is the only picture that shows whether the backfill was done properly.

That last one is the one nobody posts. It is also the one that answers the question you actually have, which is what your yard will look like in a month rather than at four o'clock on the day.

Send Us Your Before and After

If we have worked at your place and you are happy for it to appear here, text the pictures over with the street or the subdivision name and we will get them up with exactly that much detail. No addresses, no last names, and nothing goes up without you saying so first.

We are especially glad to have the ones that show a hard problem: a stump behind a thirty-six inch gate, a big hardwood halfway down a slope, a root plate a storm tipped up on its side. Those are the jobs the next homeowner is trying to picture when they land on this page, and a photograph of somebody else's identical situation does more for them than any paragraph we could write about it.

The most useful one of all is the shot taken a month later, once grass has come back over the spot. Almost nobody takes that picture, which is why almost nobody can show you what a properly backfilled grind looks like after a wet spring.