A tree can be cut down in an afternoon, but its stump lingers like unfinished business. You could call in the professionals with their roaring grinders or pour chemicals into the soil and wait months ...

A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms and some die from environmental stress or old age.

When a tree needs to be removed because it is dead, dying, or damaged, you will be left with the stump. A common option for dealing with the part of the tree that is left behind is to have the stump ...