Yes, this is certainly a lot of work, but tree a guy will charge a lot more. It's a good bit of gas involved and good bit of water and dirty... Stumps this size will probably actually take me four and a half or 5 hours to get out. Smaller trees like four to six inches in diameter, I can get three out in an hour.. This one just happens to be a large old mature oak tree. I'll post again as I show the excavation and the cutting of the tap root