Garden Tools?
Can anyone reccomend the best garden tools for cutting down large bushes stumps and also up rooting them ?
Garden Tools?
Can anyone reccomend the best garden tools for cutting down large bushes stumps and also up rooting them ?
It all depends on how much you have to do, and how valuable you consider your time.
The cheap way: axe, garden saw ( coarse teeth), pickaxe spade etc, and an awful lot of HARD WORK.
The easy way: hire a small excavator from your local Homebase, garden centre etc. and have a fun weekend, digging stuff out and filling a skip or two. ( Hippo bags might be cheaper – check the costs). With an excavator, you will probably get lots of offers of help from friends (male). Best of luck, and enjoy !
Additional tip: don’t cut off the at ground level. Leave something above ground so that you can wrap a rope or chain around it if you’re planning to pull it out with a machine.
In addition to the usual tools, one tool I would have is the mattock, which has one blade like a short broad pickaxe, and another set perpendicular to that, which acts as an axe for cutting through roots. You can buy heads that fit conventional pickaxe handles.
My husband wrapped a chain around them, hooked the other end of the chain to the truck and dragged them out, one by one. Worked beautifully!
Aside from that, shovel to locate the root ball, a rock bar lodged under the root ball to leverage them out and lots of water to replenish yourself.
A Bobcat could be rented. If Home Depot or Lowe’s doesn’t have one to rent, a local rental shop usually will. They typically rent them on a 4 hour minimum but can be rented for longer, too.
Best to you!
If you are going to remove them by hand, the other folks have provided a good list of the tools you may need. One suggestion, if you can, don’t cut the tree/bush at all until you have uprooted it. The weight of the plant will help immensely to tip it over.
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Mattock is best,otherwises a pickaxe