I'd cut it down to leave a good 2-3ft of stump. Then start cutting the roots from about 18" from the stump. Once that's done, with some stump-wigging (that's a techie term!) it'll be out.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I have sawn through Eucalyptus trunks with a pruning saw, and the thinner branches are removable with loppers. £200 to remove a tree that size is a joke. I would suggest cutting down as far as you can, and maybe digging down say 1 to 2 feet out from the trunk to ascertain how far the roots have spread.
I think you’d be able to do that yourself with a pruning saw. It’s no thicker than the shrubs I’ve been dealing with!! As others have said if you dig around the trunk and cut the big roots you can wiggle it out!
A tree surgeon charged me £120 to remove a conifer that was probably 20 foot tall so £200 seems like a total rip off!
I had one of the thin prunus in the front garden about 15ft tall - £40 to cut it down to ground level and remove everything. That was about 7-8 yrs ago
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
The two I cut down had trunks about a foot in diameter. I just borrowed the neighbours chainsaw and he got the wood. You can easily take that out with just a pruning saw as it's a very small diameter trunk. If you can get the whole thing out with a little digging then great but I couldn't face it as mine were so well rooted, so I just cut across the floor level base and scored down into the wood (so it looks like a noughts and Crosses board). There's no need for chemicals if you damage the top enough, water will get it, it will begin to rot and nature will deal with it. If in the unlikely even it began to sprout again, just have another go at it.
You could cut that down yourself quite easily with a sharp saw. Then let it regrow, it will form a bush of nice shaped leaves. Every couple of years, cut it down in March with a pair of loppers.
Get yourself a good pruning saw - much better than a carpentry saw. You'll find good use for it elsewhere in the garden. Follow @Pete.8's advice above and it will be out in no time. I wouldn't coppice it, leaving a stump, the tree never looks natural and you still don't know how predatory the roots are!
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Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Then start cutting the roots from about 18" from the stump.
Once that's done, with some stump-wigging (that's a techie term!) it'll be out.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Then get some https://www.gardenworld.co.uk/product/sbk-tree-stump-killer/ and paint it on the stump. Voila!
Or if you're relatively fit you could dig it out with a spade ... cheaper than a gym membership ... especially in London 😱🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://www.the-salutation.com/tree-stump-killer/
You could also have the stump ground out, there's more information here.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types/trees/stump-removal
I have sawn through Eucalyptus trunks with a pruning saw, and the thinner branches are removable with loppers. £200 to remove a tree that size is a joke.
I would suggest cutting down as far as you can, and maybe digging down say 1 to 2 feet out from the trunk to ascertain how far the roots have spread.
A tree surgeon charged me £120 to remove a conifer that was probably 20 foot tall so £200 seems like a total rip off!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
You can easily take that out with just a pruning saw as it's a very small diameter trunk. If you can get the whole thing out with a little digging then great but I couldn't face it as mine were so well rooted, so I just cut across the floor level base and scored down into the wood (so it looks like a noughts and Crosses board). There's no need for chemicals if you damage the top enough, water will get it, it will begin to rot and nature will deal with it. If in the unlikely even it began to sprout again, just have another go at it.