Sweeeet!Take a reciprocating saw and a long pruning blade-cut out a cone and roots till you're about 8-10" below ground...pour in 5# of white cane sugar covering the cut roots and put the dirt back in.
I need a way to get rid of this thing for good. I don't want to have to dig it up and I don't mind if there is a stump left. I can borrow a chainsaw and cut it shorter.
We've cut it down a few times but it keeps growing back and the trunk keeps getting bigger in diameter.
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You see the picture, right?NEXT time, leave 5 or 6 feet of it sticking out of the ground. Then dig a ditch around it with the tractor as deep as you can. Shovel if that's all you got.
Push on it, pull on it, repeat in every direction. If you are NOT sensing any movement dig some more.
Repeat above. If no movement fill the ditch with water and let it soak a while. Repeat in every direction.
Use a tractor if you've got it a truck if you don't.
Use the 5 or 6 foot handle you left on it to gain leverage on the stump. Put a chain on it up high and pull in every direction with what ever you've got.
Any roots reveal themselves in the process cut 'em off.
Tannerite
Well you sure showed your neighbor!!!A slightly different perspective -
My HOA does not allow me to remove trees without approval. I didn't want to bother with that on a fig tree that was too close to the house. What I did was just grab a chain saw and "trim" it so radically that I felt sure it would die.
My next door neighbor even came out of his house to tell me that I was trimming it at the wrong time of the year and way too extensively. That was exactly what I wanted. Historically, the HOA doesn't enforce the rules when a tree is visibly dead.
The net result?
This year we had the biggest crop of figs we've had in 20 years.
Moral of the story? Don't do what I did.
Trying not to kill my fence too.Tannerite
If only that had been what I was trying to do...Well you sure showed your neighbor!!!
Same as above but fill it with milk. The bugs will take care of it for you.
You see the picture, right?
It appears to be in a back yard in what I am going to assume is a neighborhood. It also looks to be right against the fence which I assume is also the property line.
Your suggestion isn't really feasible given the stump's location.
Diesel and rock salt. That mixture even kills mesquites.Diesel works fine also, and cheaper!
Holy chit! I didn't think anything would kill a mesquite!Diesel and rock salt. That mixture even kills mesquites.
It kills the one you treat, and the next 5 or 10 scattered around it. I always figured all their roots were interconnected.Holy chit! I didn't think anything would kill a mesquite!