Vermeer sc652 stumper

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Howdy I am selling my stump grinder. Asking $32,000 many extra consumables ( teeth, pockets, bolts, filters). I’ll get some pics tomorrow.

 

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Well, I have a guy coming on Friday to take a look.

 

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Now I have a guy coming tomorrow. Crazy!

 

[lxskllr]

What's the new price on that?

 

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In the neighborhood of $80k plus. Another tree guy just priced a 100 hp machine at $120k. That’s a fuk load of stumps to recover investment.

 

[lxskllr]

$200 per stump ballpark avg? That would be 600 stumps not including fuel/maintenance. At 5 stumps/week, it would take 120 weeks to pay it off, so bump it up to an even 3 years. Not terrible, but a lot of money to come off of at one time.

 

[BIGTWIG]

Good luck with the sale!

 

[flushcut]

$200 per stump ballpark avg? That would be 600 stumps not including fuel/maintenance. At 5 stumps/week, it would take 120 weeks to pay it off, so bump it up to an even 3 years. Not terrible, but a lot of money to come off of at one time.

But there are stumps that will do $300 damage in one shot too! Like embedded rocks, t posts, concrete, and most recently abandoned steel conduit.

 

[vharrison]

ha, when lxskller asked the “new” price, I thought he meant how much you were going to raise the price because of the interest. I read it wrong lol
$200 a stump is fairly cheap, just Dragging the machine to the job is worth something.

 

[lxskllr]

ha, when lxskller asked the “new” price, I thought he meant how much you were going to raise the price because of the interest. I read it wrong lol
$200 a stump is fairly cheap, just Dragging the machine to the job is worth something.

On that note, it's starting to sound like an auction, right? :^D

 

[friedrich]

also stumpgrinding is a little bit boring, no?

 

[SeanKroll]

$200 per stump ballpark avg? That would be 600 stumps not including fuel/maintenance. At 5 stumps/week, it would take 120 weeks to pay it off, so bump it up to an even 3 years. Not terrible, but a lot of money to come off of at one time.

That's not doing accurate cost- accounting by any means.

$200/ stump...that's revenue, not profit.

All the other overhead (financing, insurance, fuel, teeth, belts, battery, gear--- just direct stumper operational costs without a trailer, truck, licensing, accounting, sales, etc) needs to come out of each $200 stump.

 

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On that note, it's starting to sound like an auction, right? :^D

I have six guys chomping at the bit I could easily start a bidding war.

 

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I have one serious guy just waiting on his bank.

 

[treebilly]

Good luck with the sale.

 

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Thank you. This guy was all drooly over the stumper.

 

[cory]

Pics!

 

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I’ll get you some. My sales video is too large to up load.

 

[pigwot]

I see them going for closer to 45k in our area, well-used at that!
That six foot grind sweep sure made me smile rolling one up to a 7’x9’ mass of silver maple stump when I remember taking most of a day to do a similar stump with an old manual Hodges grinder back in the 1970s!

Hodges Stump Grinder

 

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I know I could have asked more but considering I am asking just under 200 less than what I paid for it ten years ago. I am really happy with that. It’s a good machine and will be productive for the next guy.

 

[pigwot]

Good of you to pass it on - that karma tends to come back at you!!

 

[lxskllr]

I see them going for closer to 45k in our area, well-used at that!
That six foot grind sweep sure made me smile rolling one up to a 7’x9’ mass of silver maple stump when I remember taking most of a day to do a similar stump with an old manual Hodges grinder back in the 1970s!

Hodges Stump Grinder

Lotta work!

 

[pigwot]

Yes, the Hodges was a back breaker beast. And, when we upgraded to a Vermeer we sold that old Hodges to Paul Dennison who had acres of ‘pick your own’ raspberry plants. It was ideal for those tiny rootballs 🙂

 

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Pics for Cory. I have another interested party tomorrow morning.

 

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Sold!