Bamboo Root Removal (BRR)

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by vash

my experience is opposite.

Oh, I've found when a (living) root is chopped up it becomes a whole lot of new cuttings successfully growing. Different species behave in different ways I guess.

[vash]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Oh, I've found when a (living) root is chopped up it becomes a whole lot of new cuttings successfully growing. Different species behave in different ways I guess.

true. when I did it, i had a drying pile. I would dig it up green and lay it out in the sun to dry up and die. I would be awfully guilt ridden if the stuff I dumped sprouted up at a landfill or something. out in open air, it died quick. a day in the hot sun..game over.

[vash]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

I've been asked to help remove bamboo roots from a friends backyard. First thought is a ditch witch, the idea is to dig a trench in a criss-cross pattern over the rooted area, then break the soil further using the trencher, then glean the soil by hand.

Has anyone ever done this? Any other ideas or thoughts regarding tenacious root removal?

here is my story if you are interested.
Wish I could "nuke it from orbit, just to be sure"

[Superman]

I guess I don't know about carbide chains, but in a fight between metal and masonry, my money is on the latter.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by vash

I would be awfully guilt ridden .

Umm, at a previous house I thought bamboo would look nice on the back lawn it wasn't terribly long before it was growing up the inside of the neighbours walls and had semi covered his back yard. It was sending out runners and ending up on the other side of my house. Now for houses all around (a decade or two later) everyone has a bamboo problem, gulp.

[masraum]

bamboo is "grass" (literally, really).

If you don't remove the roots (rhizomes), it will come back.

There are some caveats in that.

If you removed all of the "nodes" but still had some "internodes" in the ground, the internodes will die. But if there's any rhizome in the ground that still has nodes, then the bamboo can and will come back from those nodes.

[greglepore]

I m in the trackhoe camp. Widest bucket that the machine will actually lift under load.

I ve divided ornamental grasses in ground with a sacrificial chainsaw chain, and while it works it kills the bar as well. And those clumps are 30 in accross. Can’t imagine doing that with a bamboo clump. The grasses don’t leave pieces in the ground that will resprout.
I had a carpenter that had 50k damage done to his home by neighbors bamboo. His insurance covered, but they then sued the responsible neighbor


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[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by greglepore

I m in the trackhoe camp. Widest bucket that the machine will actually lift under load.

I ve divided ornamental grasses in ground with a sacrificial chainsaw chain, and while it works it kills the bar as well. And those clumps are 30 in accross. Can’t imagine doing that with a bamboo clump. The grasses don’t leave pieces in the ground that will resprout.
I had a carpenter that had 50k damage done to his home by neighbors bamboo. His insurance covered, but they then sued the responsible neighbor


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It's a backyard without great access. I'll be reconnoitering with her later to determine access and scope, but I think even the walkbehind bucket might be too big, and to tell the truth even the original idea - the ditch witch - might be too much equipment for the ingress/egress to the yard.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Umm, at a previous house I thought bamboo .....snip.......Now for houses all around (a decade or two later) everyone has a bamboo problem, gulp.

[Bill Douglas]

Guilty.

[herr_oberst]

We've all been there!

[pavulon]

[vash]

Herr..if i lived closer i would help.

it really isnt that bad. a lot of work, yea. but it isnt impossible work. get after it.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by vash

Herr..if i lived closer i would help.

it really isnt that bad. a lot of work, yea. but it isnt impossible work. get after it.

Thanks! I appreciate the motivation!

[A930Rocket]

I’ve not had to fight bamboo, but I had an area of some kind of spiked prickly vine that round up would not kill. It was like rose thorns without the rose.

My landscaper recommended some kind of brush killer that advertised it would keep anything from growing in that dirt for up to a year. It work.🙌🏽

[Crowbob]

One good thing about living in semi permafrostland is that many, many otherwise invasive nuisance plants don’t survive after a few years of our arctic-like climate.

Some do, of course, but not so many. Of those that do survive they never get a chance to become invasive.

[Tobra]

I remember my buddy had a neighbor with a bamboo issue, so he had a bamboo issue. I seem to recall them poisoning it with something when they cut it off. Dug down all around the tough as nails raft of stumps to get all the runners. Bamboo genocide, that is what you are after.

[KFC911]

Backside of my dad's property... his line is at least 20-30' to the left of the tower. One of the neighbors planted a very small patch in the corner of their lot mebbe 25-30 years ago... I reckon. Vash... I will pay yer moving expenses

[vash]

Originally Posted by KC911

Backside of my dad's property... his line is at least 20-30' to the left of the tower. One of the neighbors planted a very small patch in the corner of their lot mebbe 25-30 years ago... I reckon. Vash... I will pay yer moving expenses

that's easy for an excavator!! except that transmission tower. my friends job bumped into one of those and it toppled the entire thing sending the highV lines down on HWY-101 in California. good times!!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by vash

that's easy for an excavator!! except that transmission tower. my friends job bumped into one of those and it toppled the entire thing sending the highV lines down on HWY-101 in California. good times!!

One of the companies we work with on occasion, fly pipeline and transmission line right of ways on a daily basis. They fly along just taking pictures of the easement. They can do a 3D map and see if a hill side is starting to slump. One of the big things is to spot any bulldozers or heavy digging equipment. That gets an call from the pilot to 911 and the cops go shut down any activity. Only the power company and the companies with utilities in the easement are allowed to operate out there.

They get really excited with bulldozers or excavators on the easement.