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Michael Cox wrote:Privet?
For a single plant you can do a lot with a digging bar, some brute force and patience. No way I would want to do a whole hedge like that manually though. Call around your local tree surgeons and equipment hire places. Someone will have a stump grinder which is the tool you need. A big beefy thing that gets in and grinds it all up.
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Dale Hodgins wrote:I have removed this exact type of hedge. I don't think there's any point going over the day labor thing because it would be a huge cost even at $8 an hour.
This job has been done wrong. If there was an intention to take the roots out from the beginning, the way to do that is to dig a bit for the first one, then wrap a strap attached to a chain and pull it out with a truck. A mini excavator works great but we don't all have one of those.
Each one is pulled in turn, dragging toward the area where others have already been removed. Sometimes one breaks off, but usually they pop out. Too late for this here, but that's how you get rid of a privet hedge.
I think Chris has the best solution now. Slowly pruning it to death every time you see some green and then once it stops sending out much, cover with lots of mulch with cardboard on the bottom.
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Michael Cox wrote:
Dale Hodgins wrote:I have removed this exact type of hedge. I don't think there's any point going over the day labor thing because it would be a huge cost even at $8 an hour.
This job has been done wrong. If there was an intention to take the roots out from the beginning, the way to do that is to dig a bit for the first one, then wrap a strap attached to a chain and pull it out with a truck. A mini excavator works great but we don't all have one of those.
Each one is pulled in turn, dragging toward the area where others have already been removed. Sometimes one breaks off, but usually they pop out. Too late for this here, but that's how you get rid of a privet hedge.
I think Chris has the best solution now. Slowly pruning it to death every time you see some green and then once it stops sending out much, cover with lots of mulch with cardboard on the bottom.
Just to be clear, as Dale hasn't explicitly stated it - rather than trim the stems down to the root ball, you leave it long and then use the stem as a lever.
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Nails are sold by the pound, that makes sense.
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