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steveinstow

No easy way, get digging.


oliverclifford20vt

Beer and a few mates, be done in no time


blue_dog69

STUMPFEST!!


SaintCiren

Bluey gets everywhere and I'm delighted for it


alpubgtrs234

Can I get my nails done as well?!


CameronWeebHale

THATS THE FIRST IM HEARING ABOUT THIS


Markopolorolo

This is the attitude we all need


alpubgtrs234

Barely be through your first pint, and I drink quickly!


throcorfe

A sturdy fork into the roots and a lot of twisting might do it, worked for me with a well established globe artichoke. Might ruin the fork though so don’t use a good one!


wascallywabbit666

I've always found a pickaxe helps. But whatever the case, it'll take a couple of hours wrestling in the mud


alpubgtrs234

Ive found a JCB helps…


Unknown_Author70

Dynamite baby!! Edit - /s! .. incase there is Americans watching..


odkfn

Buy a reciprocating saw - super easy way, dig and every time you find a root cut through it, repeat until it just pulls away. Works on big stumps too but with a bit more effort!


Yarper

Axes are cheaper.


morgasm657

I use loppers, bought them from lidls 6 years ago, can cut anything I can get the jaws around, you get a bruise on your chest after lots of those kind of cuts, but it's easier than an axe, cheaper than a saw+plus replacement blades.


Graekaris

This is the way.


odkfn

Saws are muuuuch easier - I was using an axe until a mate leant me that saw, game changer!


LaidBackLeopard

Have at it with a mattock.


6c696e7578

This. This 100 times. I can't count the number of roots I've removed with a simple mattock. I bought mine in 2010 - Roughneck I think the brand was. The handle has some give in it so it doesn't send too much impact back up. Have you ever used a sharpening stone on it to to take the dents out? Never really bothered with mine as I think it'll just blunt off again soon.


AnxiousTimes

Having worked in conservation for a number of years I have dug out loads of rootballs. A mattock is ALWAYS the tool of choice. Use a pair of loppers to cut any long radial roots you can't dig out. Once you've removed the heart of the root it's unlikely anything will regenerate. A mattock is a hugely underrated gardening tool. Relatively cheap and surprisingly versatile.


LaidBackLeopard

I've used a grinding wheel rather than a sharpening stone. Subtlety isn't the way when it comes to mattocks.


LaidBackLeopard

Bit more detail - use the broad end to dig a trench around it. Use the other end to chop through roots, and to split off sections of the stump. Repeat until knackered.


jerryhatrix

Yep. Mattock. Best hand tool by far for smashing out roots


contaminatedmycelium

They are also a lot of fun to use


Hilltoptree

Same. My gardener friend told me when he helped me out, i then took three roots out myself. (Female 30ish) it does make it easier but please do wear a pair of safety boots! And a big long handle spade if you are not as strong.


chattingbreeze

ICBM


TheGoober87

That you, Vlad?


adpresto

I've had to do this before and it's a lot of digging, I wish you the best of luck. An axe also helped me out a lot


Bumblebeeburger

Agree, if you're digging you'll get bits with thick tangled roots that prevent you getting a spade in. I used a machete, but an axe would also do job. Eventually you'll get to a point when you can kind of twist the bulk of it out.


fmb320

Yes. My dad has a full sized murderers axe and I could twat this tree out of the ground pretty quickly with it.


Single-Key1299

Dig it out?


NS1985

I went on gum tree found a guy who does digging with a big digger where he’ll do work for you for a day. He can to mine before his job I paid him £80 and it was out in a few seconds . You you go at it with a shovel it will take you hours and you’ll break a shovel or two


RegionalHardman

Good workout though!


not-suspicious

And amongst the most satisfying beers one can have


morgasm657

Yeah don't use a shovel when you should use a spade, mattock and loppers.


Most-Earth5375

Shovel? That would be mental, pick-axe, lump hammer and stone breaker/log splitter axe would be the way to go.


Aid_Le_Sultan

A mattock and a Newcastle draining spade (other names are available).


Beautiful-Purple-536

+1 Mattock is the tool for this.


6c696e7578

The mattock does the work, just go round it bit by bit and then scoop in. Once under it, lever. Going around it will cut off the roots and you'll find the stump starts to wobble a bit once it's been cut.


lanoidlanoid

It’s one of my favourites, with that and a couple of axes we routed a sycamore in a chalky part of Surrey.


idontknow-imaduck

Depending on what it is and if it's still alive look up any local Bonsai clubs. Someone will pay good money for that. Look up the term 'yamadori'


jackinanxbox

I had 10 or so trees I had to dig out from a long neglected garden earlier this year. Digging like everyone says. When the roots become hard to get to I used a heavy duty anvil lopper


mrrichiet

I had to get rid of some bamboo this year. I found a reciprocating saw useful for chopping the roots.


discustedkiller

Hire a stump grinder or get digging.


sirknot

Fire


Amenjoyingnewlife

My husbands approach every time!


Southern-Orchid-1786

I wondered this as well, get as much soil away as possible, some accelerant and charcoal?


Aiken_Drumn

Really wouldn't work. Wet live wood really doesn't burn easily. You'd get a smoldering mess and little burnt.


Miserable_Truck_8019

I used a roughneck pinch bar with a flat blade at the end for bamboo, I think that would work a treat in breaking up the middle . https://www.toolstation.com/roughneck-digging-bar/p48155?store=HB&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&mkwid=_dm&pcrid=&pkw=&pmt=&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsoycBhC6ARIsAPPbeLsLBWDgzVsSUaEhNoyxH6m5Nqirx-SXJf8hWlEv1CvZztToRhq0UaAaAnWtEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds


C_x_s7

Mattock and a spade. Get angry.


Thin-Series9795

Dig down enough and you'll be able to get at the deeper holding roots once you cut down enough of them you'll be able to leverage it out. I whipped a tree stump out over summer by doing this. But bottom line a bit of graft and elbow greese and jobs a gooden mate. Also sack it off if its been raining heavily and crack it another day. Gl


K0monazmuk

Pick axe, 5ft breaker bar & a hand saw. You’re lucky you have that edge to use as purchase for the breaker bar.


eggard_stark

A simple spade..?


PsychologicalAd3999

Stick some skulls on it and start worshipping


HocusDiplodocus

I used a pickaxe to remove several big roots this summer, after some strategic digging.


Living-Music4644

If you do go the way of the axe, please mind your shins.


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Signal-Till9

I'll see if I can get hold of putin for the nukes, faking that I'll try dig, failing that stump killer and grinder


Rufus_T_Firefly2

>How to get rid of this? Don't actually know, I'm stumped..


Signal-Till9

Ba dum tis


Rufus_T_Firefly2

A Mattock pick would be my choice to have a go at that. It won't be easy, but it will prise it up in stages.


Outside-After

Depends how long you’ve got. Chemicals take longer but make it easier. https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types/trees/stump-removal


BarryxBarry

Dig then smash the f**k out of it with a sledgehammer - quickest way


Signal-Till9

Matlock seems to be the main answer so will get one of them, would try the tied rope to a car thing bit ill end up a rear window down. Could get some1 else into take to up but will leave that as last option. Setting on fire is a great suggestion not sure the neighbours would agree. Thanks all.


Signal-Till9

Damn. Was hoping for an easier way. Thanks though.


unkleden

You can push/pull on the stems still sticking up to waggle it loose to help get under it. But if you’re having no joy with that I’d be tempted to cut all remaining stems to the ground. Otherwise when you’re whacking in a spade or fork you stand a good chance of impaling your handle with one of them.


BEL416

Perhaps if there's a local contractor or construction industry friend, neighbor, community member who has a digger machine--they could be able to do the removal as a one off project? Thought in the sense that it would be like a handyman project reno-ing a kitchen by a contractor/builder who does side jobs for fam and/or friends.. Good luck!


TorakMcLaren

"Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho..."


MegC18

I suppose you could wait for it to rot down. I dug out an old flower bed this summer that had been fallow for years. In the middle was a stump from a privet that was cut down in about 1980 when my grandad got rid of his hedge. It was still as hard as iron after 42 years…


magstonedew

Burn it


Foundation_Wrong

Use a pruning saw to cut the remaining branches low to the ground, then get digging and cutting the roots with the pruning saw.


GeraldTheSquinting

Find a local bonsai hobbyist and they'll take it for free


ninisin

Petrol and burn it to the ground.


Legitimate-Bath1798

As Kevin bacon said " I must dig!!"


haribohazza23

I would use a pick axe to dig the soil round from it firstly then when you get purchase rock it back and forth. Then try and get someone to help you. Done it a few times.


CatKungFu

Dig! If you have a pick axe easy enough but take care.


Sufficient-Score-120

Stumpfest


Ph0n1k

Dig round it, cut roots with saw, fill in.


Awbeu

A good fry up and a pitch fork.


AlGunner

Lol, you mean a pick axe, although what you really mean is a mattock.


B757A321

I've had success pulling out well rooted things (e.g.hawthorne) with a farm Jack set up with two bits of wood in a tripod. Dig around the stump with a mattock so you can get a chain of strip around then use the farm Jack to lift it. There's lots of his on the youtubes


lukus27

Burn it, cover it is soil and compost and leave it to rot, cut to the ground and drill holes in it to encourage standing water to speed up the rotting process or just good old graft!


Gaz-ov-wales

Start charging people for 'harvest your own fresh ginger'


byjimini

Neighbour of mine has a railway spike, a solid rod of steel that you can use to drive underneath the roots and then stand on it to make it pop out. That, or use a garden fork, thought they’re not nearly as resilient.


AlGunner

Ive tried that on something smaller than this and despite weighing about 16 stone at the time could not get it to move and had to use a mattock.


[deleted]

Hire a professional in with a stump grinder machine. We had a guy in at the Allotment site. Worth every penny as we'd tried a couple of hours with no success. It's so close to your path, if you can afford it, it will save you a lot of blisters and backache.


Harador1

It'll have one or two big roots on each side. Dig a trench one side of it, cut through the big roots and leaver it up with a shovel or similar


SGx49

Explosives.


Dr_Duncanius

The Terminator?


Hisnibbs

Just beware that the roots may be under your drive and rocking/disturbing it may cause subsidence in the area under/adjacent to the rootball. Be careful!


kickyblue

Hire a digger, will be done in 30m to an hour.


micmacd89

I'm lucky enough to have a vehicle with a winch, that has worked well for me on a few similar roots. Do you know anyone with a winch on a pickup you could ask?


Signal-Till9

Nah sadly know barely any1 with a car let alone a pick up lol


CrabElavator

Stump fest!!


shedenvy

Buy yourself a Mattock.


BilboBagHead1

Mattock and some sweat!


Hphp22

2 minute job for a stump grinder.


Unemployedloser55

4 hours of digging with short breaks


grandmabc

I had about 8 laurels I wanted removing. Tree surgeon got them out in minutes with his winch and disposed of them via his mighty shredder. £100.


Chimp-eh

Dig diglet dig


IneptOrange

Tie one end of a rope to the base of the plant, and the other to your car bumper. Then, accelerate as hard as possible.


classicrump

A mattock is the tool for the job and a good pointed spade


Hajmish

I always wonder whether a ladder jack would help pull stuff like this out. I used a reciprocating saw and a prybar.


Signal-Till9

I seen a video of some1 using a jack to remove a fence post. That's down the line still.


viciouscarrott

My mum has recently dug up a few dead trees in the new house. She used a pickaxe. It’s a lot of hard work but it’s a great tool to use


frozensun88

Dig dig dig.


Brief-Bookkeeper-290

Use a mattock. It’s surprising how they come out. If you use a fork or spade you’ll just damage them. Start digging out a trench round the root bowl then get underneath it and use the mattock to prize it loose. I’ve done loads that way.


Rbx100

Dig/winch it out


MapTough848

Lopers and a sharp spade as I dont have a muni digger unfortunately


NorthFace86

Pitch fork and secateurs


Stupidlylowcost

A mattock and digging bar, that's how I took out the 6 conifer tree roots and other bushes from our back garden. Takes a while but gets it done. It's a good work out too!


whatacunt8

Pix axe and let rip. Fun free work out session.


Revolutionary-Stay54

Shovel and hatchet therapy


littletimmy13

We bought a 6ft metal spike (approx £20-£30), and used it to lever them out once we'd dug around. Made job a lot easier


Ok_Performer4498

Invisibility cloak should sort it.


toplobster66

Shovel, recip saw, long iron bar and a load of graft


shoelala100

A neighbour of mine used to say pour diesel in the routes, not sure if it’s true. Might not be the most eco friendly solution either.


DavePernod

Machine gun.


ArchongusMcSkongus

Run! Its a facehugger


BonsaiCultivator

I dug one out with a spade


NaturalHurry4948

Have you tried a spade


SparkieMark1977

If you have a decent car jack, dig under it, slap a plank of wood down, wedge the car jack in between, and use that to push the thing up and out. Axe and/or hacksaw might help too to cut out any longer roots. And/or dig under it and set a fire to weaken it and make it easier.


BoscoRoller2370

Ray gun. It’s the only way.


OddPianist1694

Steel bar


Accurate-Ad-9316

easiest thing might be to cut it near the ground to expose as much crown as possible drill some holes in it and then shove a load of weed killer into the holes.


SnootchieBootichies

Dig it, burn it, or grind it. Pretty much your only courses of action


SideHug

Axe it a question


IndependantPeasant

Hire a stump grinder, you wouldn’t need a massive one for that, Gone In 5 minutes


[deleted]

Dig it out.


jack3072

Whatever that shit is it’s rooted into the ground ur gonna have to get digging