Quote:
Originally Posted by mo[_2_]
Hi
I need to remove a tree
It was cut a coupel of eyars back so there is only a stump there (its about
30cm across so quite small)
I have started digging around it and have exposed one of the roots.
Is it ok to fidn the roots nd just sever them to stop anything growing back?
I do want to remove the main part of the stump - so I am thinking of finding
all the roots and chopping them off - but how deep might the actual stump
part go down?
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I have removed tree stumps by the method you mention. But as the other guy said, it is a lot easier if you have left a 6-ft high stump to get leverage. A 30cm thick trunk sounds like big job, I don't think I would try one that big. That, by the way, is an extraordinarily thick trunk for a tree a mere 3m tall, what upon earth was it, or have you over-estimated it? I suppose a tree that has been regularly pollarded to that height might have such a thick trunk.
Some trees turn out to have not much at all below ground, especially if they are conifers. Others turn out to have some extraordinary quantity of stuff below ground and are really hard work to dig out. Some trees are killed if you sever the main routes, others can grow back from the roots left behind, just like you can propagate some plants from a root cutting. These latter need to be killed first before you remove the stump, by drilling holes in the stump and tipping in SBK mixed with oil.