The old stump is still sitting in my yard
A cut stump at or above grade with the original root system intact below it. Over time: mushrooms or shelf fungi on the top and sides, bark separating from the wood, the surface going soft and punky, ants or beetles working the interior, and a sunken ring in the lawn as the roots break down. Plus a trip hazard and a mower you keep steering around.
Not urgent
A stump is a slowly decaying mass of wood, not a hazard. It is not going to fall and it poses no structural threat to a house. What it actually does is occupy the spot you probably want to replant, keep feeding decay fungi already present in the soil, and interfere with mowing. The one forward-looking concern is that some stump-colonizing root-decay fungi, Armillaria among them, can also attack living roots of nearby trees — so a stump acts as a reservoir rather than an inert object.
What it usually costs
Normally a stump grinding job: $100 to $700 around Indianapolis, depending on size and access. A range, not a quote.
The old stump is still sitting in my yard by town
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Indianapolis56
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Carmel42
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Fishers49
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Noblesville32
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Westfield33
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Zionsville37
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Greenwood26
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Avon27
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Plainfield24
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Brownsburg25
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Speedway48
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Lawrence61
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Beech Grove48
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Greenfield29
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in McCordsville45
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Fortville45
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in New Palestine43
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Cumberland45
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Franklin19
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Bargersville27
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Mooresville25
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Camby24
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Martinsville12
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Danville23
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Pittsboro30
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Whitestown31
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- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Sheridan25
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Cicero31
- The old stump is still sitting in my yard in Shelbyville14
Other tree problems
- The bark is falling off my tree
- The top of my tree is dying
- There are carpenter ants in my tree trunk
- My tree splits into two trunks and it looks like it's coming apart where they meet
- They dug and graded and parked right next to my tree during the build, and now it looks bad
- The trunk is cracked / the tree split down the middleurgent
- I think this tree is dead
- Something stripped the bark off my young tree
- My tree is dropping leaves in July like it's already fall
- I think my ash tree has that beetle
- My tree stood in water after the yard flooded and now it looks sick
- A long vertical split opened up in my trunk over the winter
- There's a big mushroom growing out of my tree
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree
- Half the tree is dead and the other half looks fine
- There's a big branch hanging in the treeurgent