Honest pricing

Why brackets?

For a long time we priced by the inch. It kept the math transparent: measure the stump, multiply, and anyone could pencil out a rough number. In practice, the little ones take almost no time next to the big ones — even though "a few more inches" on paper sounds small.

We eventually accepted why: how much stump you're cutting doesn't grow evenly with diameter. As the stump gets wider, the cross-section grows closer to diameter squared — the work ramps up a lot faster than another inch suggests.

We liked that honesty: open the pricing table, tally your stumps, and stay in the loop on what the job ought to cost. We wanted to keep that. Monster stumps past four feet wide are uncommon on our usual routes around here, so beyond 36 inches the table simplifies to two bands instead of stacking more tiers or sending you off to call for pricing.

Brackets are what we landed on: simple bands with prices that reflect the real curve of the work, spelled out once in plain view. Easier on you, sustainable for us, and you still walk in knowing what the table says before we ever show up.

Service-call fee

$150 flat per visit. Same fee whether it's one stump or ten. The grind time on a one-inch stump is almost nothing — nearly every stop still carries the full setup and teardown: rolling the truck up, unloading the grinder, reloading the grinder, tying the day together. Trip, equipment, muscle, paperwork — that floor cost doesn't shrink with stump size.

On the usual path we come out once to mark white paint along the dig zone for Dig Safe, then grind day waits on their clock — at least 72 business hours, often longer. Someone has to schedule around that pause and show up twice. Baking that overhead into every job lets us say yes to smaller work and still run the operation in a way that holds up.

If you self-mark and send photos, we skip the marking visit and take $100 off. Read why we Dig-Safe every job.

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