What do you pay for stump dump fees?

CM you are spot on regarding the profit. Nobody here in Ca is making good money. The guy I take stumps to has a crew that sorts - grinds along with equipment. His overhead is high (labor fuel maintenance) We all have that of course. The Air Resources Board (CARB) is killing us. Good running trucks and equipment is being shutdown due to regulations. By the way you cant burn in California stumps. I did and the fire dept showed up. Hell in San Francisco they outlawed your fireplace. ........Sorry for the rant and going off topic. Doug

Since this Forum reaches so many different areas of our Country and the world, there is often discussion of what things cost and what operators and other construction personnel make. What an operator makes in Alabama isn't comparable, dollar for dollar, to what an operator makes in say Cali or NYC - there are many variables involved. The biggest variable is cost of living.

This economy is the same for small businesses. When I read what other people charge per hour for say a 20 ton hoe in other areas, I think to myself man I wish I could get that. We are all guilty of it but you have to step back and think what it costs them to do business in their local area.

When the final numbers are crunched, the only thing that matters is what is left over at the end of the day.:cool2

CM1995 said:

When the final numbers are crunched, the only thing that matters is what is left over at the end of the day.:cool2

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Well said!

Correct me if I'm wrong (like I had to say that lol) but in MO we can burn and bury as long as it's not trucked offsite, once it's offsite it has to be at a registered recycler or landfill...... The same law applies to brush as well, however firewood that is "salvaged on-site" is considered suitable, same goes with houses as long as the boards are salvaged and cleaned onsite you are fine basically you cannot take a whole house to your farm and sift through the rubble to get what you want out of it ..... They say once it's loaded it has to remain loaded until it's tipped at a landfill

At least that's the way I understand it and have always done it, I have to keep landfill recipts on file for 2 yrs as well as give the homeowner a copy of them for their records and NO a transfer station is not considered a registered landfill.

Sorry for repeating myself I just couldn't get it to look right in black and white lol

We do a lot of state/federal funded demolition and that's what I have always been told friggin government

Pj

Late to the party, but felt I can add something. We pay 15 a yard for stump disposal and they are greedy when it comes to amounts. The old place used to charge 8/yd for brush and $12/yd for stumps.
They stopped accepting loads, whether it was gubermint regulations or it wasn't profitable(one often causes the other right?), IDK.
Either way, when we had a big october storm a few years ago you could see the value of having an operation that grinds wood debris. I believe I heard they sold off the chips to energy plants- making money on both ends