Pampas grass removal and stump.

[treesnakey]

Anyone got any tips on taking these out. I've heard some horror stories about fires with chainsaws and grinders.

[atree]

Digger?

 

Ive only ever removed one to ground level..and it had a bees nest in it..

[Big T]

Winch it out, quickest and easiest way I have found!

[nepia]

Winch it out, quickest and easiest way I have found!

 

 

Agreed. I've done several. I hack a trench around them with a mattock, put a strop around the back and slightly underneath and winch them. The same for Phormium.

[Goaty]

This has been discussed before on here, try pampas in search.

[peatff]

I dug mine out with a spade just by undercutting it then I had to cut it in three pieces to be able to lift it into the barrow. There was a lot of dead stuff in the middle and it had all-sorts living in it at one time or another including hedgehogs. It outgrew it's situation or I would have left it there but my wife wanted to grow vegetables so it had to go.

[edwood]

I took out a monster of one recently, 2 of us dug round it then we chocked a 19mm bull rope on it and pulled with a big 6 litre landcruiser, the rope snapped. Napalm was invented for plants like them!!!

[daltontrees]

I dug 3 out last week, no bother. Basically got a pair of very sharp seccateurs an cut each clump of blades at the base, worked my way through the lot. The roots then came up no bother after slicing all round, then just had to flip it over and wallop it with teh edge of a spade till a lot of the earth fell off. Then I put it back in the hole upside down and jumped on it. Might not work but it felt gooood.

 

15 minutes each, didn't break a sweat.

[derbyshiretreeservices]

weve done a few in the past, but dont stump grind them, it gets wrapped around the shaft, winching is good or borrow a digger.

[Beardie]

I did one several years ago. Burned all the top growth, demolished it with a mattock, dug out all the roots Icould find to a depth of half a metre or so.

 

18 months later, you'd never know I'd bothered.