I cut down three trees the other week. One was a laurel and two were leylandii. All have been in for quite a few years and I'd kept them trimmed to about 10ft.
I was surprised how substantial the main trunks were - they all had multiple ones. A mate lent me a fairly heavy duty muncher to put the branches through, and another mate lent me a reciprocating saw. I ended up with masses of bags of waste which I took to the local tip - three carloads, and you have to make appointments a week away at our tip now.
I dug out a fair bit of the roots but have now drilled holes in the stumps and filled them with Epsom salts which apparently dries them out and kills them. Looks like it won't be a quick process though.
Another neighbour said he was surprised I hadn't suffered poisoning from the laurel.
Anyway, there is a place near a walk we go on which deals with trees from the local forest - mainly silver birch. There is always a pile of help-yourself wood chips there which we used this year instead of paying the garden centre for bark, and they leave handy boot-size chunks of trunk there for you to take away - I imagine as firewood but we took one to use as a base for a bird bath...
Last edited by: smokie on Thu 23 Jul 20 at 00:28
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