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    Tree Roots

    Tree roots are doing my head in, they are as thick as my arm................I'm digging down to them then attacking them with some ratchet loppers..........any advice on how I can remove them & make life easier for myself?
    sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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    Dig somewhere else
    Never test the depth of the water with both feet

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    • #3
      Originally posted by RedThorn View Post
      Dig somewhere else
      Oh well, it beats "Get in a JCB"................
      sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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      • #4
        Originally posted by RedThorn View Post
        Dig somewhere else
        ooh tsk that is hard. .

        How's the budget matey? A half hour with a mini digger would be the answer. Up here minimum 4 hour charge which is a bit of an ouch but maybe worth pricing. If it is really pricey, digging down to them then attacking them with some ratchet loppers might see a more attractive proposition

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        • #5
          Sounds good in theory AP but I don't know where they are till the spade vibrates up my arm.........
          sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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          • #6
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            Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

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            • #7
              Cheers BB. I was thinking of going down the route of using a pick axe.
              sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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              • #8
                We got our Mattock from B&Q was about the same price as the one BB posted and according to Mr Pots with out the Mattock he'd have still been digging up the tree roots now.
                Location....East Midlands.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Bigmallly View Post
                  Cheers BB. I was thinking of going down the route of using a pick axe.
                  Pick axe will split the roots bud,a sharp mattock will cut like an axe
                  He who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame

                  Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

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                  • #10
                    Ok mate, you've talked me into it. I need to get them out somehow.
                    sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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                    • #11
                      By chopping the roots out are you not just root pruning which will cause a mass of secondary root growth? Might you kill the tree if it loses a lot of its roots Is it your tree?Do you care?
                      My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                      to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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                      • #12
                        I was going to ask the same as Snadger. I had to get rid of some big ash saplings that had grown at the back of my plot - I used a hand axe for the smaller roots and a big axe for the bigger ones. Eventually I got the stump out but I left quite a few roots in the ground. Some trees do not regenerate from below ground level.
                        Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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                        • #13
                          It's a mixture of established trees & some that have been cut down. Yes, I suppose you could call it root pruning but as long as they are not running straight through the middle of beds which they are at the moment I don't really care.
                          sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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