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Mar 23, Best way to remove shrubs or small stumps is to wrap a loging chain around them and hook it to the hook on the front of your 4 wheel drive truck or tractor. With the chain slack, back up fast and put in neutral before chain is tight. This is called redneck gardening. Nov 30, If you are like me, digging up bushes and trees SUCKS. And never gets all of the roots up, unless you dig a monster hole.

If your goal is to kill the system, organic herbicides wont do the trick, she says, since they are not systemic: Leaves will shrivel, but roots won't die.

So here is a MUCH better way, and. Jun 01, One, dig the entire root system up with a shovel and try to pull out the shrub or bush out.

This is back breaking work and it’s unlikely you’ll be able to dig around and through a well established root fall tree in sunlight images. Two, use a saw to cut the trunk of the shrub or bush at ground level.

If you’re planning to replant in the area this approach will only cause more work and/or inhibit the growth of Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

A round-bladed spade with a pointed tip will make it easier to dig through the soil, and a mattock will be useful for cutting through the roots.

1 Use bypass loppers to cut away smaller branches around outer portion of shrub. 2 Cut through thick branches deep inside of the shrub with a chainsaw. 3 Dig around base of shrub with pointed shovel.

4 Cut through roots at base of stump with a garden shrubpruning.bar: Roger Cook.