Tyler Mumford - The Stump Guy
@StumpGuyTy
Owner - GrindTime Stump Grinding | Replacing my $175k W2 income with a Stump Grinding Business
I Quit my $175k W2 tech sales job to grind stumps. How’s that for a 2024? The most exciting part of the journey is that I went from never making a dime of money on my own, to doing $9k in revenue my first month as an entrepreneur. Here’s how it happened:
Beautiful cabin in Kamas, Utah for the weekend. Doesn’t get much better than this!
Best addition I’ve made to my setup? The trailer came with a tarp hook in back (1st pic) but it didn’t work with my machine in there. So I had a guy copy and weld it further forward. Now I can run chips in the front, machine in the back. Beautiful!
Another day, another $1,500. Worked with a new tree guy. He loved not having to have his guys grind, but still getting the job done on the same day. Another loyal customer. Chasing roots got a little nasty, but at this point, the dirtier I am = the more money made.
Couple times a week I get a LinkedIn notification that someone from my old tech job viewed my profile. They’ve gotta be thinking: “No way this dude’s actually making money.” 😂
21 stumps smashed. Ended up being a $4200 day. The other 4 we had planned weren’t ready yet so we bumped those to next week. Terrain got nasty in a few spots but the machine pulled it off. What a day!
I was unfamiliar with the climbing boulder game.
It is 9:40 AM and we have done $1,200 in revenue so far. Complete outlier of a day, but you gotta be in the game to have days like these🤝
It’s a huge STUMP DAY Awesome night at the Spanish fork Rodeo last night. Back on the horse this morning for a huge job. 25ish stumps, let’s go!
This is why I come home caked in dirt everyday. Huge dirt clouds. $1,400 day today. $5k city job scheduled for tomorrow. I have 8 business days until my year mark in business. Going to do every job I can to push that 1st year number higher. Let’s go!
Shoveling in a calorie deficit = shoveling on hard mode. 20 lbs down this summer and am the strongest I’ve been in a while. Feeling good!
Job I just quoted: Customer: The bid to beat is $500 Me: You’ll want to take that then, it wouldn’t be worth it for me. Customer: Well what would you bid? (Very clear that he didn’t have another bid.) Me: $1,000. Customer: Can you do $800? .. Why do people lie like this?
Not the most fun day, but we pushed through and still did $1,200 in revenue. Wait for the fun sprinkler Easter egg on this one!
A lot of church buildings in Utah. A lot of trees at those church buildings🤝
225 x 12,11 on bench this morning. 315 is happening this year. Happy Sunday!
Trying to explain to a random person that: 1.) I run what’s called a “stump grinding business.” 2.) I’ve built a decent following tweeting about stump grinding. Is impossible to do without sounding insane.