Stumps gone.Half the price.

Located in Hartford, Wisconsin

One machine, one man, no office to pay for. You get the grinding and nothing else on the bill.

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Before and after: an old stump sitting in the lawn, then the same spot ground out and left as a mound of chips Before After
✓ $1M liability, $2M aggregate ✓ 811 called before every job ✓ Usually same week
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Tell me about the stump

The quickest way is to send a photo by text — you will usually hear back within the hour. If you would rather type it out, the form works just as well.

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This opens your email with everything filled in — just press send and I'll come back to you the same day. Would rather not use email? Call the number above, or text me a photo instead.

No haggling, no surprises

Our Pricing

Most companies around here won't tell you a price until somebody drives out to your yard. These are my real prices, posted where you can see them.

One stump

Measured across the widest point

Up to 24 inches across
$150
25 to 36 inches across
$200
37 to 48 inches across
$250
Bigger than 48 inchesSend a photo and I'll price it
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Each extra stump, same visitUp to 24 inches
$90
Each extra stump, same visit25 to 36 inches
$120
Each extra stump, same visit37 to 48 inches
$150
Half day — everything I can reachFence lines, treelines, acreage
$500
Full day — everything I can reachBest value if you've got ten or more
$900
DIRT TO DIRT, FLARE INCLUDED

How to measure it

  1. Measure straight across at ground level — not around it, and not how tall it is.
  2. Go dirt to dirt: from the edge of the flare on one side to the edge on the other. The flare is what I actually have to grind, so it counts.
  3. Most stumps are oval. Measure the widest way across.

This is bigger than you think. A tree with a 12-inch trunk usually measures 22 to 30 inches once you include the flare. Measure the ground, not the cut.

No tape handy? A garbage can lid is about 22 inches. Or lay anything across it and text me the photo — I'll size it off that and confirm the price before I come out.

Bring a neighbor

Book together, both save $25

Get a neighbor booked for the same day and you each take $25 off. Doesn't have to be next door — same road, same subdivision, same corner of the township all count.

Two stumps on one trip costs me almost nothing extra, so I'd rather hand you the savings than burn the drive.

Price it yourself

Three taps — no phone call, no salesman

1 — How big is the stump?
2 — Quantity of stumps
1 Extra stumps on the same visit are much cheaper — I'm already there.
Every price includes
  • Ground six to eight inches below grade
  • Chips raked back into the hole
  • Diggers Hotline called before I dig
  • An honest heads-up if ground conditions are poor
  • A firm number, not an estimate
Your price
$150

1 small stump

The big outfit advertising around here would charge $225 for this — their posted minimum.

3 — Where are you?
Service area drawn as stump growth rings Three drive-time rings out from home base: inner ring under fifteen minutes, middle ring fifteen to thirty minutes, outer ring thirty to forty-five minutes. BASE C 30–45 MIN B 15–30 MIN A 0–15 MIN YOU YOU YOU

Each ring is another 15 minutes out

Type your town aboveTell me where you are and I'll show you exactly how far out that is — and what it means for your job.

Seven counties, over a hundred towns and villages. See the full list ↓

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Coverage

Towns I cover

Seven counties across southeast Wisconsin — and the small villages, hamlets and townships are where I do most of my work.

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The county list below covers the same ground.

Each ring is another 15 minutes out from Hartford — inner is under 15, middle is 15 to 30, outer is 30 to 45.

Outside the circle? If the job is big enough, call me — I'll make the trip.

Residential  /  Commercial  /  Municipal

Washington County

  • West Bend
  • Hartford
  • Germantown
  • Slinger
  • Jackson
  • Kewaskum
  • Richfield
  • Hubertus
  • Newburg
  • Allenton
  • Addison
  • Barton
  • Colgate
  • Rockfield
  • Kirchhayn
  • Cedar Lake
  • Cedar Creek
  • Boltonville
  • Fillmore
  • Kohlsville
  • Young America
  • St. Anthony
  • St. Lawrence
  • Ackerville
  • Orchard Grove
  • Cheeseville
  • Nabob
  • Myra
  • Wayne
  • Erin
  • Trenton
  • Farmington
  • Polk
  • Thompson

Ozaukee County

  • Port Washington
  • Cedarburg
  • Mequon
  • Grafton
  • Saukville
  • Thiensville
  • Fredonia
  • Waubeka
  • Knellsville
  • Lakefield
  • Little Kohler
  • Holy Cross
  • Ulao

Dodge County

  • Mayville
  • Horicon
  • Juneau
  • Theresa
  • Lomira
  • Brownsville
  • Iron Ridge
  • Hustisford
  • Neosho
  • Rubicon
  • Ashippun
  • Lebanon
  • Clyman
  • Lowell
  • Kekoskee
  • Neda
  • Hochheim
  • Huilsburg
  • Herman Center
  • Leroy
  • Farmersville
  • Alderley
  • Saylesville
  • Sugar Island

Waukesha County

  • Oconomowoc
  • Menomonee Falls
  • Delafield
  • Hartland
  • Sussex
  • Lisbon
  • Merton
  • Chenequa
  • Nashotah
  • Pewaukee
  • Lac La Belle
  • Summit
  • Dousman
  • Wales
  • North Lake
  • Okauchee
  • Stone Bank
  • Monches

Sheboygan County

  • Random Lake
  • Batavia
  • Gooseville

Fond du Lac County

  • Campbellsport
  • Eden
  • New Fane
  • Dundee
  • Byron
  • Ashford
  • Auburn

Jefferson County

  • Watertown
  • Ixonia
  • Concord
  • Sullivan

Don't see your town, or you're outside the circle? If the job is big enough — a fence line, some acreage, a yard full of stumps — call 262-674-5395 and I'll make the trip.

Straight answers

Why I'm cheaper, and why that's fine

A low price ought to make you a little suspicious. So here is exactly where the difference comes from.

Insured — and I'll show you the paper

Commercial general liability through Germantown Mutual — $1,000,000 per occurrence, $2,000,000 general aggregate. Ask and the certificate is in your hands before I ever pull into your driveway.

Germantown Mutual has been writing policies since 1854 — the first mutual insurance company in Wisconsin — and they are headquartered right here in Washington County, a few minutes from where I work.

Most outfits type "licensed and insured" onto a website. Ask them for the paperwork and see what comes back.

$1,000,000
General liability
per occurrence
$2,000,000
General aggregate

No overhead to pass on

The tree companies have a crew, a yard, bucket trucks, a chipper, an office and somebody paid to answer the phone. All of that goes into your quote whether you needed it or not.

I have one machine and one man. You are paying for the grinding, and that is all.

811 gets called every time

Wisconsin law says you call for a locate before you dig, and grinding a stump is digging. I file with Diggers Hotline on every job, no exceptions.

They mark where gas lines, fiber, sprinkler lines and invisible dog fences run, so I know exactly what's near your stump before the wheel ever touches the ground.

You get a firm number

Not a range. Not "starting at." Not a price that grows once the machine is running. What I quote you off a photo is what you pay.

The one exception is buried concrete or metal, and I stop and call you before I touch it.

Who you're hiring

The Owner and the Grinder

Austin Fischer running the grinder on a stump at the edge of a treeline
That's me. Face shield and ear muffs on, working the joysticks. Every pass is by hand — that is how you get a clean cut around roots and rock instead of chewing up the yard.

Ever since I was a kid, I've loved being outdoors and putting in the hard work to make a property look its best. My very first side jobs were helping neighbors keep their yards pristine—weeding flower beds, trimming dead branches, cutting grass, and laying fresh mulch every spring. I always cherished that work.

As I got older, I took a few classes in metal fabrication and CNC machining, which eventually led me to complete the Tool and Die program at WCTC. I enjoyed the work, but sitting inside a temperature-controlled shop all day made me realize how much I missed being out in the elements.

I decided it was time to get back to doing what I truly love: working outside and helping people transform their properties. I founded Stump Pros LLC to bring that passion for a well-kept yard to homeowners across Hartford and Southeast Wisconsin. When I'm on your property, my goal is simple—remove the obstacles so your yard is a clean, clear space you can truly enjoy.

— Austin Fischer, owner

The short version

Based in
Hartford, Wisconsin
Locates
Diggers Hotline filed on every job
Insurance
Germantown Mutual — $1,000,000 general liability per occurrence, $2,000,000 general aggregate. Certificate on request.
This season
My first fall running Stump Pros. I saw the need out here, and the opportunity, and went after it.
Payment
Card, check or cash — when the work is done
Quotes
Free and firm, usually within the hour
Austin at the controls of the Rayco RG37, safety screens up, grinding a stump beside a flower bed

The machine

A Rayco RG37. Compact, four-wheel drive, and run by hand on joysticks — no remote, no automation.

  • Narrow enough for a standard gate
  • Knobby tires that climb a wet slope without tearing it up
  • Carbide teeth
  • Small enough for a side yard, strong enough for a fence line

Standard grinding

Six to eight inches below ground level — deeper than most, and plenty for lawn.

  • Chips raked back into the hole, included
  • Expect a mound of chips, not a flat patch

Acreage and fence lines

Old windbreaks, treelines, orchards, woodlots. Out in the country I sell the day, not the stump.

  • I grind everything I can reach
  • Far cheaper than counting them up
  • Open access means I work fast

Dead ash trees

The borer killed nearly every ash in these counties. Most folks had the tree taken down and left the stump, because grinding was quoted separately.

  • Dry ash grinds quickly
  • Usually my cheapest jobs
See it work

Forty-five seconds of chips flying

No music, no narration, no editing. Just the wheel doing what you're paying it to do.

Rayco RG37 · Hartford, WI Safety screens up, chips going where I put them.

What you're watching

The wheel takes the stump down in passes, six to eight inches below grade, while the screens keep the chips off the siding and out of the flower bed.

That's the whole job. No crew standing around, no second truck, no afternoon of it.

Turn the sound on if you want to hear what your neighbors will hear. It's a machine, not a whisper — but it's minutes, not all day.

Questions

Before you call

How soon can you come out?

Usually the same week, often within a day or two. I am one person with one machine, so there is no crew to schedule around. If I am already working your town that week, sometimes I can be there the next morning.

Do you have to come look at it first?

No, and that is part of why I am cheaper. Send me a photo with a tape measure, a boot or a five-gallon bucket next to the stump and I will give you a firm price the same day.

Driving out just to look costs me the better part of an hour, and somebody has to pay for that. I would rather it not be you.

What happens to the hole?

On a standard job I rake the chips back into the hole. That is included, not extra.

Fair warning so nothing surprises you: it will be a mound, not a flat patch. Grinding turns a solid stump into a much larger volume of loose chips, so there is more material than the hole can hold. It settles over the next few months as the chips break down.

Worth knowing if you want lawn back there: wood chips are not soil. As they break down they pull nitrogen out of the ground, so grass seeded straight into them comes in thin and yellow. Scoop the top few inches of chips out, backfill with topsoil, then seed it. That is a bag of dirt and twenty minutes of your own time, and it beats paying me to do it.

What if I want to plant a new tree in the same spot?

Tell me before I start. Planting means going deeper than a lawn job needs, and how much deeper depends entirely on the stump — a big oak has a lot more to clear out than a small ash.

Send the photo and say what you're planning. If it changes the price I will tell you then, not after.

Can you haul the chips away?

Not right now — I am not running a trailer yet, so the chips stay on your property. I would rather tell you that up front than surprise you on the day.

What I do instead is included in the price: rake them back into the hole. It will sit as a mound and settle over a few months.

Will the machine tear up my yard?

It leaves tracks in soft ground, the same as any equipment would. I will tell you honestly before I start if conditions are going to mark things up, and on frozen or dry ground it barely shows at all. If your lawn is soft and you care about it, the fix is usually to wait for a dry week rather than to risk it.

Can you get into my backyard?

Usually, yes. The Rayco RG37 I run is a compact machine — I need about three feet of clear width to get through, so a standard gate normally works. Send me a photo of the gate or the narrowest spot along with the stump and I will tell you straight whether I can make it.

Do you work in the winter?

Yes, depending on the conditions. Heavy snow on the ground or a stretch of steady rain leaves the ground soft underneath, and the machine needs firm footing to do the job without tearing up your yard. It really comes down to the weather that week, so the best move is to call or text me and I will tell you straight whether it is a go.

How do I pay you?

Card, check or cash, whichever is easiest for you. Payment when the job is finished, not before. No deposit on regular residential work.

Still got that stump?

Text me a photo, call, write me a plain email, or scroll back up and price it yourself. Whichever is easiest.

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