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

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Tell me about the stump

The quickest way is to call or 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? Just call or text the number above.

No haggling, no surprises

General 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 acrossMost yard trees land here
$150
25 to 36 inches acrossA good-sized maple or oak
$175
37 to 48 inches acrossBig old shade tree
$250
Bigger than 48 inchesSend a photo and I'll price it
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Each extra stump, same visitUp to 24 inches
$45
Each extra stump, same visit25 to 36 inches
$70
Each extra stump, same visit37 to 48 inches
$100
Half day — everything I can reachFence lines, treelines, acreage
$500
Full day — everything I can reachBest value if you've got a dozen or more
$900

That's the whole price list. Those are my prices for when I'm already working your area. The only other thing that changes them is concrete, rock or metal buried in the stump — and if I hit any of that, I stop and call you before going further. Nothing appears on your bill that you didn't agree to.

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, or take two and average them.

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.

Pick your timing

Wait for my route, pay less

The prices above are what I charge when I'm already headed your way. If you need a specific day this week, that means pulling off my route — add $50 and the day is yours.

Most stumps have been sitting for years. If yours can wait another week or two, you keep the $50.

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
  • Surface roots ground out too
  • 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 twenty minutes, middle ring twenty to forty minutes, outer ring forty to sixty minutes. BASE C 40–60 MIN B 20–40 MIN A 0–20 MIN YOU YOU YOU

Each ring is another 20 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, well 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 20 minutes out from Hartford — inner is under 20, middle is 20 to 40, outer is 40 to 60.

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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
  • Belgium
  • Waubeka
  • Knellsville
  • Lakefield
  • Decker
  • 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
  • Monterey
  • 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

  • Plymouth
  • Random Lake
  • Adell
  • Cascade
  • Waldo
  • Cedar Grove
  • Oostburg
  • Glenbeulah
  • Greenbush
  • Batavia
  • Gooseville
  • Hingham
  • Dacada
  • Mitchell

Fond du Lac County

  • Campbellsport
  • Eden
  • New Fane
  • Dundee
  • Byron
  • Armstrong
  • Ashford
  • Auburn
  • Mount Calvary
  • St. Cloud

Jefferson County

  • Watertown
  • Ixonia
  • Concord
  • Sullivan

Don't see yours? The list is not exhaustive and I will travel for the right job.
Call 262-674-5395 and I will tell you honestly whether it is worth the drive.

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.

That is your gas line, your fiber, your sprinklers and your dog's invisible fence all staying right where they are.

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 full spring, summer and fall running Stump Pros. I saw the need out here, and the opportunity, and went after it.
Payment
Card, check, cash or Venmo — 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. I feel what the wheel is doing through the controls, so I can work the cut instead of just pointing it at the stump and walking away.

  • Narrow enough for a standard gate
  • Knobby tires that climb a wet slope without tearing it up
  • Sharp carbide teeth, swapped out before they get dull
  • 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
  • Or moved anywhere else on your property, free
  • Surface roots ground out too
  • 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

Tell me this when you ask for a price

Three things decide whether I can drive straight to your stump or have to work at it. Mention them up front and your quote is the price — no surprises when I pull in.

  • Is there a hill or a soft, wet stretch to cross?
  • How close can I park the truck and trailer to the stump?
  • Any gates or fencing in the way, and how wide is the narrowest point?

A second photo of the way in tells me all three in one shot. If something turns out worse than it looked, I stop and call you before I start — I don't add anything to the bill you didn't agree to.

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 neighbours 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. If you would rather they went somewhere else on the place — a garden bed, a back corner, behind the shed — say the word and I will move them there for you at no charge.

And if what you actually want is lawn back, hauling them off would not get you there anyway — you would still need topsoil in the hole. See the question below about what to do with it.

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, and it is a good time for it. Frozen ground is easier on a lawn than soft spring ground, and I run a lower rate through the cold months. Come April you have a clean yard instead of a project.

How do I pay you?

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

Still got that stump?

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

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