Phoning around Johannesburg for the right machine and a fair rate takes time. Send one request instead, with what you need, the dates or how many, and we pass it to tool and plant hire yards who supply Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Stump Grinder Hire in Johannesburg
Stump grinder hire in Johannesburg: plant hire yards around Johannesburg rent walk-behind and tracked grinders, many with an operator. Measure your gate and side passage, find buried pipes and cables, and tell the yard how many stumps you have and how wide they are.
New to this? Read the stump grinder hire guide for the options and the questions worth asking before you pay.
Equipment & supplies in Johannesburg: local notes
Hire shops along Main Reef Road and in the south of the city rent petrol chainsaws, towable chippers and walk-behind stump grinders by the day. For the tall canopy in Emmarentia and Parktown, a cherry picker with a 15 m or higher working height is often hired with an operator. Bring your ID for the deposit, and buy cut-resistant trousers and a helmet with a face screen before you start any saw work.
Trees in Johannesburg
Johannesburg is often called one of the largest planted urban forests in the world, and most of that canopy sits in the old northern suburbs. Parktown, Houghton, Saxonwold, Parkview and Melville grew up under plane trees, English oaks, pin oaks, jacarandas and towering bluegums planted a century ago. Many are now old, top heavy and sharing small stands with houses, walls and overhead cables. The shot hole borer beetle has weakened plane trees in parts of the city, and summer thunderstorms bring down limbs that were already dying. Homeowners ask for crown reductions, deadwood removal and sectional felling over roofs. Street trees usually belong to the city, so check with the municipality before anyone cuts a pavement tree.
Typical stump grinder hire requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: grinding out an old stump so the lawn, paving or a new bed can go over it
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: clearing several stumps along roads and common areas in a day or two
- Schools, churches and municipalities: grinding stumps in parks, schools and cemeteries after old trees are felled
Local tips for Johannesburg
Most asked for in Johannesburg: sectional felling and crown reduction of century old planes, oaks and bluegums. Where tree fellers and hire yards work from: teams based in Randburg, Roodepoort and the south, travelling into the northern suburbs. A useful tip: ask whether the tree is a pavement tree and who has to give permission first.
Stump Grinder Hire usually suits garden stumps, gums, palms and old hedges, done like this: machine hire, with or without an operator. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means grinding out an old stump so the lawn, paving or a new bed can go over it. On the weather side: afternoon storms and hail from October to March; dry, frosty winters suit big pruning.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Requests from Johannesburg go to teams and suppliers who already work in Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville and the rest of the area. Mention an estate gate, a narrow driveway or a steep garden, because they change how the job is planned.