TREE ADVICE

Anyone ever removed leylandii ?they are about 10ft tall, is it a dig and tug job?. thanks in anticipation.

 

Complete Barstewards to get out

if they owt like the ones we had to get rid of at my mums anyway.
Best bet is saw em down as low as poss, then start digging, bloody roots go for fecking miles

 

Bugger but thanks

 

stump it, salt the stump. that'll kill it. if not erm as mark said.

 

We were told about salting stump

and using Jeyes fluid on it too, didnt make it any easier to fecking dig out tho`.

Having said that there were 4 trees and only 3 were complete Barstewards......... the other one was just a ****.

 

copper nail

poisons the tree / stump

 

Can you still buy copper nails?

I cant remember seeing any.

 

yes

but i am sure you could create one from any piece of copper .

 

Nice one

I have a job to do on the boat and it will look better with copper nails.
Think I will try MC Mills tomorrow.

Thanks.

 

RE: Nice one

http://www.classicmarine.co.uk/product.asp?product=161&ph=cat

 

Had a twin trunk thirty odd footer in my garden up to about August last year. dropping it was no problem, left about 4 foot from the base to give a bit of leverage once I'd dug around the roots a bit - not a fookin chance. ended up hiring a small digger to get down and snap the roots right underneath and even then took my a whole day just to get the barsteward moving a tad.
Once free, the root bole was so big the digger couldn't lift or drag it out the hole so I decided to dig a real deep bugger and role it in and bury it. Best move really if you can't get shot of the stump.

 

BTW...

... if you fell it in line with the ground a tree landscaper should be able to come in and grind the stump down so you can cover with soil.

 

Glad to know I am not the only one that has had a bad experience with trees

 

chuff me...

Your boat is so big you have trees growing on it...

 

No just bloody big moss

 

leyladii are conifers and are generally shallow rooted. in past experience depending on girth of tree have a tap root which needs sawing through and all the lateral roots are fibrous ,should be no trouble at all at the side of regular trees ,once you have cut through the central tap root. it will still need a bit of physical strength. cut or dig down 1 to 1 1/2 foot circle round the tree ,one to foot down .this cuts off the lateral (horizontal roots).Then attack the central tap root .it may be easier once the tap root is exposed and the tree moved from side to side to loosen it in the hole (P Taylor city &guilds landscape and practice -Horticulture)

 

Know anyone with a turfor?

or some lifting gear, will help enormously, even a rope and a couple of shackles would help, other wise its a dig out job, but they will come out, just keep at em.</p>

a strong bar will help to get under em, summat like a weight lifting bar is a good thickness and summatto put under the bar for leverage, was it archimedes that said with enough leverage one man could lift the earth .... or summat... .. </p>

hope this helps.</p>

 

Thanks for the help lads i have 22 of them, i wonder if a gallon of petrol will do it.

 

22 ? best ger a man in and get a bank loan nt

 

"TUG JOB" ?? what kind of pervert are you, getting off on trees