Make a day of it ... provide pizza and coffee at regular intervals and explain that your role is purely to supervise and provide refreshment ... after all someone has to be fit enough to drive the others to the hospital or the pub ... whichever is needed first
Good luck!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hire of a shredder can be very expensive even just for a day.
Once shredded the tree will yield just a tiny amount of chipped material.
It will need to be left to rot down before using as a mulch.
Quote RHS......
"Mulches from conifer trees and shrubs
Fresh conifer materials are more likely than broadleaf woody waste to contain phytotoxic compounds e.g. tannins, which can reduce germination and harm young plants. Again, this is unlikely to be an issue for mature plants, but chipped and shredded conifer mulches should be aged before use around establishing plants."
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Make a day of it ... provide pizza and coffee at regular intervals and explain that your role is purely to supervise and provide refreshment ... after all someone has to be fit enough to drive the others to the hospital or the pub ... whichever is needed first
Good luck!
Last edited: 10 November 2017 20:48:48
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cutting it down will be done really quickly.
The hardest part is not going to be cutting the tree down but getting rid of all the branches.
Hopefully you are near to a council recycling centre and can take a few branches at a time in the boot of your car to get rid of them.
hire a shredder to get rid of the branches. you can use the result as a mulch for shrubs
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hire of a shredder can be very expensive even just for a day.
Once shredded the tree will yield just a tiny amount of chipped material.
It will need to be left to rot down before using as a mulch.
Quote RHS......
"Mulches from conifer trees and shrubs
Fresh conifer materials are more likely than broadleaf woody waste to contain phytotoxic compounds e.g. tannins, which can reduce germination and harm young plants. Again, this is unlikely to be an issue for mature plants, but chipped and shredded conifer mulches should be aged before use around establishing plants."
Offer the cut wood on Freecycle, someone with an open fire or woodburning stove will probably be glad to take it off your hands.
Don’t burn it on open fires, it spits like the devil, I can vouch for that.
you could use it on wood stoves but leave it for a couple of years as it tars the chimney flue.
Sorry Lyn, I didn't know that, so thanks for adding a warning! I've got an enclosed wood burning stove, so I don't notice it spitting.
Thank you all! It’s going to be done soon! Can’t wait toget rid of it now, blocks out so much light!
Although my little girl wants to leave so it can be an outside Christmas tree! Bless!
Thanks!
Show us a pic when it's done.
remember that you don't have to dig out the root ball as its very close to your foundations.
as its a conifer, once you remove all the green growth off it then its dead, so you can leave the stump to slowly rot away.