Clear away the branches and other plant material.

Sep 03, Still using a shovel to get rid of those overgrown bushes? Then you need to check this technique out! In this video, This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook explains how to clear large shrubs. Steps: 1 Use bypass loppers to cut away smaller branches around outer portion of shrub. 2 Cut through thick branches deep inside of the shrub with a chainsaw.

3 Dig around base of shrub Author: Roger Cook.

There will be tremendous force required to pull the shrub or bush from the ground.

Jun 01, An easy solution to remove the dirt and hence lightening the shrub or bush is to hit the soil with a garden hose or even a power washer. If you hit the soil with some water pressure the dirt will simply wash right away. You’ll be left with only the shrub or bush which can be cut up, burned, or moved to conifer tree cutting for disposal.

shrubcleanup.barted Reading Time: 5 mins. Oct 05, Using pruners or a pruning saw, you’ll cut each of the heaviest stems as close to the ground as possible.

This method of managing large shrubs stimulates the plant to produce new growth just below the pruning cut, close to the ground.

Be sure to use a strong jack, such as long, flat hydraulic jack.

If you just trim the tops of the shrubs, they will grow even leggier and shrubcleanup.barted Reading Time: 2 mins. May 02, If you can cut the top growth away, and down to about 2 feet tall, (leaving just a few main limbs) then carefully dig down and try to find where the main roots are, you can lop the roots a few inches below grade level and get the main body of it out.

Then eventually the roots will rot 93%(2).