How hard to cut a Hawthorn tree ?

[scottythepinetree]

Oh, forgot to add, if you do the sides first you'll have a much easier time getting the branches on top to fall clear.

[Flyguy]

  scottythepinetree said:

Oh, forgot to add, if you do the sides first you'll have a much easier time getting the branches on top to fall clear.

 

Great advice - and a good point about having more time to spend on this.

 

I'll have a go this weekend and see how it turns out.

 

Cheers

[scottythepinetree]

No probs mate. Stick up a few after pics when you're done.

 

If only more customers were like you, I could give up this silliness and get a real job!

[phirow]

Has A pro Hedge-layer you can cut the thorne back to coppice, pollard or do what a lot of landowners do is cope it to fence height.

Please do not forget that hawthorns are classified as small to medium trees, they are not shrubs. If you see thorne with multi stems then this has been cut or layed at an earlier date

[Jesse]

I cant wait to see the finnised job but what made it for me was the readybrek touch from wisewood ,i liked that a lot

[Yeti]

got a similar sized job as this in the next coming weeks,yeti versus hundreds of spiky thorns.luurvlly

[adethegardener]

I have been tasked with taking out some Hawthorn but looking at these posts it seems that even if cut back to stumps they will grow back, is this correct? The customer ideally wants them completely removed, but I reckon that digging them out would be a nightmare task. Advice please.

[Burgess]

You can put ecoplugs in a stump to kill it off I've never used them though. Although a stump grinder would be a better option if access allows.

[peatff]

I turned the one down the garden here into a lollipop just using a step ladder and a bow saw and topped the main stem and it grew again. It had two stems twisting round each other where the main trunk bifurcated. It is a good habitat, something always nests in it.

[Daniël Bos]

  adethegardener said:

I have been tasked with taking out some Hawthorn but looking at these posts it seems that even if cut back to stumps they will grow back, is this correct? The customer ideally wants them completely removed, but I reckon that digging them out would be a nightmare task. Advice please.

 

Cut them down to 1m stumps, then pull them over with a (hand-) winch whilst cutting roots with a mattock (or Axe if you have one you don't like that much).

Hawthorn roots are not deep/widespread generally.