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Hi, There is a 15 M fence in my garden on its last legs. It’s about 7ft tall but would replace with 6FT. Guy just told me these...

Key words there are "I could see". Quite thin roots can be covered in soil and essentially invisible but still be enough to hold it in...

I never knew. I thought they would go out beneath too. Ok so I have a Gert machi mattock, and them roots are gonna get whacked...

So I got all the roots I could see on the first one but even having cut through all of them it would not budge. It seemed like there...

There’s two side to it. One has a blade horizontal to the handle, the other is like an axe, vertical to the handle. Makes sense it’s...

Nobody told me it would be hard work

Wrong house, sir

Do I smash through them with the flat end or the vertical end?

The trick with the mattock is to completely ignore the stump itself, try and dig around until you hit the roots and sever/smash through...

There is no way in hell either of them would come up with a mattock underneath. I’m 16 stone and with my full weight on it, having cut...

An electric saw will get blunt quite quickly with the coating of soil on roots, best dug out by hand really.

I have a mattock. In the end I had to axe it from the top and split the stump repeatedly from the top. Is that how it’s supposed...

So I have one of those electric chop saws and a spade. If I dig out the soil around and just slice through the roots with the electric...

I would just dig them out, I know some can be absolutely turd to do, but I’ve done three now and they were a lot easier once started...

I have a few tree stumps in the gravel border I am creating. I am not attempting to dig them up due to time and from what I hear it’s...