Stumps

[gibbo300]

Hello all, new to this site so hope I'm posting in the right forum.

I have recently cut down a big run of Leylandii and want to kill the stumps and roots. What's the best stuff to

use ?  Thanks.

[Steve Bullman]

Roundup will do the job

 

[Steve Bullman]

Sorry, just re-read the part where you mentioned the trees being Leylandii. No treatment is needed, they won't grow back from bare wood.

[Dan Maynard]

I've seen leylandii stumps that 'tree surgeons' have drilled and poisoned, but as Steve says do nothing as they will die anyway.

[Guest Gimlet]

If they're accessible I'd always pull leylandii roots out. Bit late now if they've already been cut, but it you intend to pull the stumps, leave them three foot high for leverage. They come out fairly easily with a mini digger. I've pulled out huge ones quite easily with a 1.5 T machine. Though there is a knack to doing it. Crash bang wallop doesn't work.

 

 

Edited March 24, 2023 by Gimlet

[doobin]

19 hours ago, Gimlet said:

If they're accessible I'd always pull leylandii roots out. Bit late now if they've already been cut, but it you intend to pull the stumps, leave them three foot high for leverage. They come out fairly easily with a mini digger. I've pulled out huge ones quite easily with a 1.5 T machine. Though there is a knack to doing it. Crash bang wallop doesn't work.

 

 

Leaving the stumps three foot high just gives you something to rip boom pipework off with. Low stumps and a ripper tooth, easy.