Rhododendron removal

[Brushcutter]

What about a big shredder or something that would let you chip the root ball too. Pull them all out with a 360 and feed them whole into the chipper? The job anywhere near hertfordshire at all?

[garth mc garth]

We use a grapple- it lets you give the thing a good shake to get rid of most of the soil. Rhodys usually grow on sandy acid soil so this shakes easily off the shallow roots.

 

Yeah we use root forks on the 360 for grubbing out (obviously rakes up less soil than a bucket) and putting into piles so the forwarder could collect. Driver would shake the brash during loading then had a good couple of miles shaking its way down the extraction route. was then unloaded at the burner where we had another machine with grapple. By the time it was fed into the burner it had been handled so many times you could of used a spoon to move it!!

We were really struggling with disposal due to the volume being extracted, forwarder was coming in consistantly every half hour and soon had a pile which i could sit on with the 13 tonner and load the burner from well above the rim of it.

[slasherscot]

i did a site for the WT last year, all large bushes we cut off main stems at ground level, drill a hole in them and sprayed with round up, any small bushes under 3ft were sprayed as normal. with a follow up spray in the next year. It keeps the cost down and has worked well on this site. if u go to woodland trust website there is some info on rhroddie bashing

[Sasquatch]

Hi

 

Worth reading this when tackling Rhodedendron Infestation.

 

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/Argyll_Bute_rhododendron_2008_best_practice.pdf/$FILE/Argyll_Bute_rhododendron_2008_best_practice.pdf[/url]