Thanks for the advice here, really appreciated.
I've taken it slowly (not least cos of rain!) but over the past couple of days I have dug out a huge hole and used the reciprocating saw to cut all the roots I could find. The thing still wasn't budging.
I started cutting down from the top to try to reduce the amount remaining above what will be ground level, before treating with SBK. Even the saw was struggling!So I got my trusty tyre lever out to see if I could split it at all and by some fluke, and after quite a bit of grunting and swearing, managed to pull it in the right direction and it unexpectedly all came loose!
So I now have the whole of the main part of the root out. I can't do much about all the bits that radiate out under the ground but hopefully they will wither and die. (I took out as much as I could without doing a whole load more digging, and pulling up my lawn!!)
Plus I can send back the pack of SBK to Amazon which arrived today!
Thanks again.
PS My mate lent me a mattock too but I think you need a bit of practice to use that properly...!!!
Last edited by: smokie on Tue 25 Aug 20 at 17:47
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