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Re: pine tree removal

The Bay Area Gardener wrote:
> 
> A friend just cut down three big old Monterey Pines out of his yard. > Does anyone have thoughts about much of the root structure to get out > and short cuts for doing so?

Hi Carol,

Monterey Cypress definitely has a quite small, quite shallow, root mass,
sounds like the ones you saw uprooted were typical. Not sure about the
M. pines. Although these are the major forestry tree here in NZ, we have
not seen one uprooted. At a guess, they may be fairly similar.

Rather than trying to dig the roots out (a terrible job!) do you have
people who bring a "root grinding" machine to your site?

This is quite the normal practice here, there are both large and small
sizes of machine, according to the size of job and the availability of
access to the site. The machines are something like an enormous
chainsaw, but adapted to the job of following the roots down into the
ground and grinding them up into chips. AFAIK, it is not ridiculously
expensive to hire them.

Try your "Yellow Pages" for arboriculturists. Any you find should either
be equipped for this job themselves, or know who is.

Tony
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand/Aotearoa ("Land of the Long White Cloud")
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