Norm Schmidt operating a yellow ride-on stump grinder, wood chips flying across a rural Alberta yard

Wetaskiwin, Alberta · Owner-Operated

THESTUMPSTOPSHERE

Tired of mowing around it? Norm shows up and grinds it out. Stump grinding and tree removal for Wetaskiwin, Millet, Leduc County & Pigeon Lake.

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Owner-Operated
Wetaskiwin, AB Based
Real Jobs, Real Photos

See the Work

One Real Job

Get Those Stumps Gone

"Same yard. Stump ground out, roots cleared."

No stock photography, no rendering. This is one backyard, shot before and after Busy Beaver ground out the stump, cleared the roots, and leveled the ground back to grass. Drag the slider to see it happen.

Same backyard with the stump fully ground out and the ground leveled and grassed over

After

Large multi-trunk tree stump left in a backyard, surrounded by torn-up sod

Before

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What Norm Handles

What's on the Job List

Stump Grinding

Big stumps, small stumps, stumps you've been mowing around for years, ground down flat and hauled off.

Tree Removal

Low-risk tree removal for trees that need to come down, dropped safely and cleared from the property.

Tree & Yard Clean-Up

Deadfall, brush, and storm damage cleared out so the yard looks like a yard again.

Photos & Video

From the Job Site

Norm and a helper with the stump grinder at a farm property with a grain bin in the background

On site with the grinder, ready to go.

Yellow stump grinder parked beside a freshly ground stump in a backyard patio

Stump ground flush, grinder still warm.

Grinding a curbside stump down to the roots.

Chainsaw resting beside a freshly cut stump with a pile of pine branches behind it

Cut down to size, ready for the grinder.

A large downed tree cut into rounds at a farm property

A full tree, bucked into rounds.

A large tree uprooted by a storm, root ball exposed, fallen in front of a house

When a storm takes a tree down whole.

Landscaped backyard with a large fallen tree branch resting across the lawn

Before: a fallen limb across the lawn.

Row of mature spruce trees with storm-snapped tops

Storm-snapped spruce, ready for clean-up.

Damaged spruce trees along a tree line with a bright yellow canola field behind

Damaged trees cleared, canola fields behind.

Long row of mature spruce trees lining a rural Alberta property

Lake-country acreages, from the tree line back.

Large tree stump and log beside a roadside path, ground down with wood chips spread around it

A big one, dropped and chipped.

Freshly cut tree stump on cemetery grounds before grinding

Before: a stump right on the grounds.

Cemetery grounds after a stump has been ground flush and filled in

After: ground flush and filled in.

Boot resting on a large freshly-cut tree stump cross-section, showing its size

This one was bigger than the boot.

Close-up of a small ground-out stump hole freshly filled with wood chips beside a driveway

Ground flush, filled, and raked out.

The ride-on grinder at work, real footage, not staged.

Norm Schmidt operating a yellow ride-on stump grinder, wood chips flying

Owner-Operator

MEET NORM

Norm Schmidt runs Busy Beaver Stump Grinding & JNS Landscaping out of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, solo. He answers the phone, quotes the job, and drives the machine.

No dispatch, no subcontractors, no crew of strangers showing up in a truck you've never seen. If Norm quotes it, Norm does it.

Owner-Operated

Norm answers the phone and runs the machine himself. No call centre, no upsell.

Real Equipment, Real Results

Every photo on this site is an actual Busy Beaver job, not stock photography.

Wetaskiwin-Based, Local Crew

Based right in Wetaskiwin, not dispatched from the city.

Four Areas Covered

WHERE THE GRINDER GOES

Based in Wetaskiwin, AB, and working four areas: Wetaskiwin & County, Millet, Leduc & County, and Pigeon Lake & area. Outside that? Give Norm a call, he'll tell you straight if you're in range.

Wetaskiwin & County

Home base

Millet

Leduc & County

Pigeon Lake & Area

108 Northwood Cres
Wetaskiwin, AB · T9A 3L4

The real Busy Beaver Stump Grinding roadside sign with phone number, on the property

The Real Yard

Seniors 65+

No GST charged on your job.

Multiple Stumps

Ask Norm about a discount when you've got more than one to grind.

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780-991-4023

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