As you are young and fit, I’d recommend digging out as much as you can. You will need a mattock, and a decent sized wrecking bar will be useful too. OH and I dug out a massive conifer stump by hand, when we were young ( in our late fifties/ sixties! ) so it can be done. Just a bit of patience and brute force needed.
I find my mini mattock/pick from Screwfix extremely useful for getting smallish stumps out of the ground and I'm in my seventies. They do a larger size which would probably be better for you. I use the mattock end (small axe) for chopping through the roots and the pick end for digging up the soil around the stump and/or heaving up the roots. Start digging around the stump about 2ft out and cut through the roots as you go. Then you will be in a position to undercut the stump tap roots and rock it back and forth.
As you are young and fit, I’d recommend digging out as much as you can. You will need a mattock, and a decent sized wrecking bar will be useful too. OH and I dug out a massive conifer stump by hand, when we were young ( in our late fifties/ sixties! ) so it can be done. Just a bit of patience and brute force needed.
Im trying to convince my partner to help with the removal but she's not overly keep haha.
I've got my eye on a B&Q mattock with a lifetime guarantee, so even if I snap it hopefully I can get a replacement.
I find my mini mattock/pick from Screwfix extremely useful for getting smallish stumps out of the ground and I'm in my seventies. They do a larger size which would probably be better for you. I use the mattock end (small axe) for chopping through the roots and the pick end for digging up the soil around the stump and/or heaving up the roots. Start digging around the stump about 2ft out and cut through the roots as you go. Then you will be in a position to undercut the stump tap roots and rock it back and forth.
Good luck.
I'm tempted by the little mattock because there isn't much room to maneuver next to the wall and fence. But I'm not sure a little one would make it through these roots. I'll probably end up getting the big one because I can still access 3/4 of the roots without restriction, so I'll probably need the big one to get through those quickly.
I had to remove a decent sized eucalyptus recently and dug around and under the stumps and then went to town with a mini axe. We had left a 4 ft trunk but it was still hard work to sever all the roots as it was near a wall where access was impossible.
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I'm a physically active man in his 20s, so I fit the criteria for tackling some hard garden work
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good luck.
Im trying to convince my partner to help with the removal but she's not overly keep haha.
I'm tempted by the little mattock because there isn't much room to maneuver next to the wall and fence. But I'm not sure a little one would make it through these roots. I'll probably end up getting the big one because I can still access 3/4 of the roots without restriction, so I'll probably need the big one to get through those quickly.