how do you pull a shrub out of the ground?

Answer 1

you have to cut it down as low as possible, then dig the root out.

Answer 2

Do you really need to totally remove the shrub, roots and all? If not.. "GLOB" it, which means ground level or below! Prune back all the branches if they are keeping you from reaching the base of the trunk (you need to get to the trunk where it comes up from the ground). Cut the main trunk about 3 to 5 inches from the ground and remove all shrubbery. Presuming you have a chain saw you can cut off the rest right at ground level, or if you don't want what is left of the trunk showing, you can dig around the stump to a depth of about 4 inches and cut it off below the ground. Make sure you cut an "X" across the top of the cut stump to a depth of about a 1/2 inch so no"sucker"growth will come up from the root system. Fill back in the hole with the removed soil and there will be no evidence of a shrub ever being there. Good luck.

Answer 3

The easiest way to pull it up out of the ground (roots and all) is to NOT cut off the branches.

What you do is set up some scaffolding around the shrub and lay a sturdy plank across the scaffolding. Wrap a chain around the trunk of the shrub low down close to the ground, below the branches. Attach the other end of the chain to a hand-cranked winch chained to the plank. Crank away! The shrub will be lifted straight up out of the ground like you're pulling up weeds in your garden.

This beats using your car, since you'll need far less vertical force than you would need horizontal force, since you've got so much less soil above the roots than you do to the sides.

Pulled out 7 bushes this way last summer.

Answer 4

I actually removed 2 last year. They were not cooperative with what I preceived as "normal" means of removing them.

Finally I hooked a chain around them low at the ground and pulled them out with a 4 wheeler. There were some roots remaining. I then cut them as low under the ground as I could so as to not have some left to stub your toe on or trip over.

Then fill in the hole with dirt and be glad that task is done!

Answer 5

Do you want to keep it or discard it? To keep it, carefully dig in around the root ball and lift it out after cutting roots long. Transplant it to a container (yes it will survive in the right size pot) or nearby area of ground. It will be damaged a bit, so supply it with a small amount of food and water it daily until it begins to take root again. To discard it? Hook that stinker up to Uncle Bubba's truck with a chain and rip that puppy a new sink hole to China!! LOL...just for fun. Good luck and may your garden bloom!

Answer 6

dig around the base of the shrub twice the size of the base , go all the way around until you can scoop out around the root system . work your shovel in a scooping motion until you pop out the shrub . then if you replant make sure in hole you dig is just as big . water often. if not replanting you can hook a chain and pickup to it and pull it out .

Answer 7

First, you need to clip it, then cut it to the ground. Next get out the shovels and crow bar because it will be a lot of work getting the roots out. Enjoy!

Answer 8

Lots of hard digging. Use a large pruners to clip the roots.

Answer 9

you get a chain wrap it around the trunk and hook it to your car and drive away, if it doesn't work the first time you got "bump" it a few times

Answer 10

over a good bit of time with a shovel, and you definitly won't get all of it out