Bamboo removal

[Bloom]

What's the most effective way to remove bamboo? This would be on a large scale. I went to the job a few months ago to look at trees, customer came back this week asking to remove bamboo. Bamboo wasn't mentioned to me at the time so I hadn't paid attention to the bamboo but apparently it is rampant and their garden is large +2acres. I've already told them that there will be no guarantee of complete removal but more a case of getting rid of most and deal with it as its pops up. 

[Dan Maynard]

Few ideas:

 

Stump grind everything, take the money, change phone number, move house.

 

Hire digger and dumper, remove top two feet of soil from entire garden, replace.

 

Say bamboo isn't a tree, you need a gardener for that.

[nepia]

So helpful 😄

[nepia]

I suppose I should at least make some attempt at being constructive then...

 

'This would be on a large scale'    Small digger with operator, remove all root infested material after cutting to ground level, import topsoil.  Will cost a moderate amount of money but if that's a big problem they shouldn't have let the stuff get out of hand! (Assuming the occupiers haven't just moved in)

 

 

[Dan Maynard]

That's what I said, second idea.

 

Other thing is to cut it and glyphosate sprouts, repeatedly, until you win. I've never done this, usually use the third idea myself.

[kkk2]

3 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

That's what I said, second idea.

 

Other thing is to cut it and glyphosate sprouts, repeatedly, until you win. I've never done this, usually use the third idea myself.

We have done this on a large scale removal, cut everything back to ground level and glyphosate on regrowth, it took two years before we got the better of it though, we then ran a stump grinder through the area to cut up everything and removed it, we were hampered by the fact there was only pedestrian access to the site

[nepia]

3 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

That's what I said, second idea.

You got me   🏳️

[spudulike]

We had this problem after my darling wife wanted to hide the log store.....two years....cut it down, dig out what you can and spray glyphosate over any shoots....did it eventually! 

This was the big 15' big leaved feed a panda for life variety!!

[Mick Dempsey]

1.5 tonne digger struggles with a bamboo ‘carpet’ need a 2.5 tonne ideally.

 

I’ve long since turned down all bamboo work.

Walk away.

[dumper]

Try skid steer and forestry mulcher or flail, then spray and spray and then keep on it will go eventually