Conifer Trees

[Sawdust]

@ ozzsurf

You need a stump grinder, in an hour they will be a distant memory.

[ozzsurf]

i just bought the 50 x 2.65 mm copper nails
will bang em in to my stumps lol
and let you know if they work


not got a stump grinder
have £1.95 for the nails tho

[Sawdust]

Conifer wood is soft anyway. They will naturally rot in 2-3 years. Take your copper to the scrap yard and weigh them in

[Russell1]

have 3 great big stumps left
will buy 50 of those nails to kill the stumps

They are dead now & wont grow. To help rotting just drill some holes in the top to hold some water.

[holmroad]

Like all those disposal methods too, but I always borrow my son-in-law's white van and take my cuttings to the local tip, or even have a good old fashioned bonfire as I live in the countryside!
The cooled off embers dust makes great fertiliser!

[TheBadger]

You can quite legally cut off any parts of the trees overhanging your property as long as you then return the cut off material to the owner of the trees. I'd just lob it over the fence at the base of the trees.

[oscar]

You can quite legally cut off any parts of the trees overhanging your property as long as you then return the cut off material to the owner of the trees. I'd just lob it over the fence at the base of the trees.

I didn't know that --- he did get the material back eventually but I also shared it with my neighbours as it was smoke from the wood burner !!
Regards

[catseye]

Copper nails is BS, diesel and oil is no good as it leaves traces and pollutes the surrounding soil. A Glyphosate such as Round up pro is what is required. It is invisible and does not harm anything else. To be effective it must be sprayed onto the foliage, NOT the unbroken wood/bark. The tree will absorb it and draw it through the complete root system without effecting other trees/plants in the vicinity.While it does inhibit the trees metabolism, a large tree may take repeated doses over time. Other than that 'ring barking' is the only sure way. But even if you kill them, Leylandii can stand for a long time dead and they will shed a lot more foliage then.

If i was you have a word and mention your concerns, if your that desperate, offer to go halves and get a Pro in to reduce or fell them. If you dont have a chipper, there will be a lot of trips to the tip. I've lost count of the amount of DIY jobs that end in disaster and we have had to sort it out lol.

Thanks Sawdust -in your honest opinion how much 'round up' would you use bearing in mind these things are 40+ foot tall-cheers

[pipedream]

5 litres of diesel and a match is cheaper

[Stev0]

Drill holes in the truck and pour weed killer into the holes bye bye tree!

[grafter]

Round-up, mixed 50/50 with water. Drill some holes around the base of the trunk and keep them topped up. Would be a good time to start now before they get going in spring.

I did it here, our neighbour had a 30ft high thing right on the fence line so we were lucky I could get to it from our side without being noticed. No idea what it was but it had nearly a 2ft wide trunk at the bottom, it took six months and a full bottle of round-up to do it but started about now, it failed to leaf in the spring and by the end of the summer a lot of the small branches were dry and snapping off in the wind. After a conversation with neighbour about the poor tree I offered to take it down FOC in case larger branches started to fall off, they agreed, we had a winters worth of fuel for the woodburner and I gained from 25 to 49E

[Ross_37]

I have had a similar problem and l resolved using

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roundup-Killer-Liquid-Concentrate-Weedkiller/dp/B001DYQ286

this is easy and perhaps save friction between all parties
I simple drilled a two or three holes (6mm)and injected the soultion and this will kill the foliage

[Sawdust]

@catseye

not 50/50. 1/10 or 1/20 mix is sufficient. Not the rubbish you buy from B&Q. get the pro stuff that comes in a gallon. A gallon lasts us 12 months, we use it to kill stumps that we cant get the stump grinder to. A tree surgeon for 25 years, if you need anymore advise drop me a pm

I would still have a word with your neighbours first though, they may be ok about it. If a row of trees suddenly dies in a season, it will look suspicious, it may cause ill feeling between you both as it will be pretty obvious whats gone on.

[Sawdust]

This is the stuff you want:

https://www.twistfix.co.uk/roundup-pro-biactive

[catseye]

Im pleased to say they are now 'half gone'

Myself & neighbours wrote to owner who agreed he needed to get rid

He did ask if we would contribute to cost so we all agreed to chip in £50 each

He said he was quoted £400 by one person & £1000 by another

Bearing in mind these 2 trees are inexcess of 40ft high & have been there for nearly 50 years

He just needs to remove the broken branches that have landed in my garden & I will be a happy bunny

I will upload some pics this afternooon