Stump grinding and root removal, then topsoil refill

Last autumn we cleared an overgrown corner of our plot, and now there are seventeen stumps standing across roughly eighteen hundred square metres. Twelve of them are birch and poplar, thirty to forty centimetres across, cut high, about knee height; four are old apple trees with wide shallow root plates; the last one is a spruce close to sixty centimetres in diameter and, going by the rings, about fifty years old. The poplars have already started throwing suckers along the edge of the future lawn, so the job is not only about taking away what is visible above ground.

We need two different treatments, and it matters which stump gets which. Along the future lawn, about eleven stumps, grinding down to twenty five or thirty centimetres below grade is enough, provided the chips are carried off rather than raked back into the hole. Six stumps sit where we plan fruit trees and a raspberry row next spring, and there we want full extraction: the root plate out whole, the thick laterals traced and pulled, the pit cleaned so no rotting wood is left in the ground to feed honey fungus.

Access and the things that must survive the work are the tricky part. The nearest stump is two and a half metres from a brick outbuilding wall, another is a metre and a half from a paved path laid on sand, and a water line runs somewhere along the northern strip. We have the layout drawing but not the exact depth, so that area needs careful probing before any cutter goes in. The gate opening is two metres sixty, the yard is paved, and we ask for boards or mats under tracks and outriggers.

Please quote with chip and root removal included, plus backfill with screened topsoil, tamped in layers and levelled flush with the surrounding ground; we will seed the lawn ourselves. Tell us how many days you need, what machine you plan to bring, and whether you haul the debris with your own transport. Two weekends in a row would suit us best, and we can be on site the whole time.