We needed to get the stump removed. For that you need someone to grind it away. They use a lawn mower type contraption with a huge vertical spinning blade on the end and slowly shave the stump away. They start at one side and and grind away till they reach the other side, then do the roots.
I have no pics as it was done while we were at work. It took a long time for them to arrive as apparently they were waiting for the city to inform them of where the underground pipes and cable are. 6 phone calls later and 2 very stern voice mails where I threatened to leave a scathing review of the company on HomeStars.com (which is the best place to review any contractors before you hire them by the way) and they finally came out. I guess they were cheap for a reason.
In the end they did good work, left us with a large crater and a pile of dirt/wood-chips.
Next step was a grueling 9 hour adventure. 1st, try and rake up as many of the wood chips as possible, and then shovel the dirt to fill the craters. Needless to say, every time I took a shovel full and spread it around it just kept revealing more and more wood chips. Its not bad to have wood chips in the soil, they are good for maintaining a moist soil while trying to grow grass, but the amount of chips was ridiculous. So the pattern of shovel, hoe, rake, shovel, hoe, rake, continued for hours (7 brown-bags of wood chips), until I had a semblance of flat ground.
Now it is time to try and do something with this landfill. We opted to just seed it to try and grow some grass. But because it was once a pine tree, and hundreds of thousands of needles that had fallen over the years had made the ground Ph very acidic. So first a layer of lime to try and stabilize the ground. Then a layer of top soil and then the grass seed.
Then another layer of top soil and rake evenly. It took 21 bags of top soil to do this 30 sq feet of area.
Anyway all you do is add water and let mother nature do its thing.
4 hours later I saw this....
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Ha! I wish.
For now we will have to live with the big pile of dirt and hope the squirrels don't each too much of the seed, and the nights don't get to cold.
Anyways...if anything grows I'll post some pics.
K&K
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