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You have to go real deep to get the roots. I read that it will not cross steel you can bury some vertical on the property line very deep up to where it sticks out of the ground. Then it is not creeping back onto your yard. Then dig and burn dig and burn for awhile one small piece of root or stem and it is dig and burn ect
I made the mistake of planting bamboo too close to my house several years ago and now its insanely huge!!! I really appreciate your very insightful and helpful video. I have a lot of work to do in the months ahead!
Good job with your garden, i bought a house with a beautiful but very wild garden that contains also some bamboo plants and they are popping up everywhere, so now i need to remove them. Thanks for the video, ill use it as guidance.
Quarter of the way through removing a large and very dense patch of bamboo roots. I don't have a reciprocating saw but did try a chain saw but that was not as effective as I'd hoped and hot work in the safety gear. I'm now using a stone chisel (bolster) and lump hammer to cut through in 6 inch slices then levering them out with a crowbar which though tiring is much more effective than the garden chain saw and a lot less dangerous. Once the top clump is out it is easy enough to dig out the lower spindly roots. I now hate bamboo.
My preferred method is using a pressure washing to blow the dirt away and expose the roots. That way you can follow them easily and chase down any runners that will come back to haunt you later. Also helps with getting them out; you can pry up a chunk with a pry bar and blast underneath to loosen the roots further.
Thank you for making this video. I inherited bamboo in my yard when I bought the house and trying to remove it as best as I can. I just wish I had good help to rid it in a couple if days like you did.
Amazing vid! I’m so glad someone posted a way to do this without using nasty weed killers. My ma’s garden is really overrun with tall bamboo so I’ll be buying a saw and getting to it!
Thanks for this vid. I've just moved into a new home and the naeigbour's 12ft bamboo has some 64t shoots on our side of the fence, so this will be my weekend job to get rid of them before they become an issue. I'd assumed the roots would go down deeper, so knowing I only have about a foot to dig is a great comfort.
You are a hard worker, I have to do the same at my home, I'm dreading it, it's going to take me months. I'm quite anxious about not being able to get all the rhizomes out of the ground.
Thank you... best advice on removing bamboo... I found the saw shook the rhizome causing its grip to loosen and come away so much easier... thank you again...
Thanks for the video! I'm currently working on removing bamboo from my yard and it's a mighty difficult job to do. Using that reciprocating saw seems like a good idea. I'm gonna try it. Thanks again.
I used lopper to cut the bamboo from as low to the grounds as possible, found it's much easier for not large size bamboos than other tools. But I need to hire professional to get rid of the roots, he will use stump grinder.
I heard you will blunt your reciprocating saw if you use it on bamboo .Cut low to the ground with loppers pick axe and fork can help but it's a slow process.
I got to remove some bamboo but mines a lot larger than what you’re doing man this makes me feel bad for what I got to go through what you had to go through all the small ones wow good job I will have to hire it done I can’t do it myself
I have about 3000 square feet of giant 40' bamboo to remove. Not looking forward to it. We were think of an excavator? I started just cutting it, but it will take forever with the roots.Thanks for the video!
@denisebroussard if using an excavator I would first ensure that there are no water lines, drainage pipes, or electrical or TV cables underground and if there are, at what depth. In many areas you can rent a smaller excavator by the day or week. Good luck and thanks for watching and commenting!
Hard work for remove Bamboo. That is a very strong plant, can survive most of condition. I grow it in the pot but put it above the ground so it can’t jump out of the pot ( it did jumped out of pot before as I put it on the ground).
I'm jealous! I'm about to begin the same process but in Texas black clay soil. it is an endless chore trying to work with this stuff! I have sprouts that come up 10 feet away from the main plant so I know I'll end up with a multi year battle digging out rhizomes as they rear their ugly head
hello Just a message from France where we have the same problem with the bamboo in our garden, it's a every day' battle. I do hope I will have the same result as you ! Take care
Maybe this is an idea: if you are doing this in the fall cut the bamboo shoot as close to the ground, pour vinegar into the root and then cover area with 6 mil or more black plastic so the roots cant get sunlight. Uncover the area in the spring and then dig up existing frail root system. I haven’t tried this yet but going to do this year. They swear this works.
I used my Bobcat with a toothed bucket to get under the roots and picked out about a six foot by 3 foot piece of bamboo. Got about 12 scoops out. Gave those to friends that wanted bamboo. Never had any grow back. In another place I used my weed water with a tree cutter blade and I cut it off below the surface. We let that grow back and it came up the next year.
Kenneth Carter we had to cut them to 4 ft sections so our city would pick them up. We also paid some haulers to take longer ones out on a trailer. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thank god I don't have this much bamboo .. My neighbors bamboo comes into my yard two or 3 times a year I just cut it low to the ground below a node and there is the hole.. I fill a 5 ml syringe with blackberry killer and put it down each plant it kills the actual root system of the neighbour's plants he doesn't give a damn it works like a charm
Hi, Kimberly. Would you mind saying exactly what blackberry killer you syringed? And syringe with a needle or just syringed and let it absorb? I never use herbicides but I’m desperate. I’m 63 soon and have injured my back but need to get black bamboo removed from my old house so I can get the house on the market soon. Now I’m getting calls from the neighbor saying it’s in her field so I’m extra desperate! Thanks!
Good video thankyou, I've got issues with bamboo and it looks very cumbersome using hand tools..am not looking forward to ripping it out.. perhaps a mini excavator is worth the money?
Yeah had to remove large patch bamboo used bunker bar and 4x4s. The roots pretty shallow so did the leverage system with bunker bar leveraging against 4x4s roots came up easy.
Good video. My back neighbor has bamboo growing into my yard. How do I permanently remove bamboo from crossing over to my yard . I have been digging them for the last 15 yrs. I keep digging them back to the fence where the neighbors yard is at. the neighbor will not remove the bamboo.
@Txtea Ranch I would dig a trench maybe 2 ft deep and a few inches wide at the property line and use something as a barrier to hold back the creeping roots, maybe wood, plastic on a roll,,,, anything to fill the void and take that to the top, above ground. In an ideal situation you could fill it with cement. good luck and thanks for watching and commenting!
Did any of your bamboo grow back? I've been working on removing bamboo for two years and I'm using a backhoe. If you don't get every last root... it comes back. I've managed on removing 2/3rds from an acre.
Hi. Enjoyed your video as I’m about to tackle a fence line of bamboo that extends from my neighbors yard. I’ve cut it down as far as I can go. I’ve done this since we’ve had the home. 4 years. It’s not as bad this season. It’s over grown every season because I was working full time and out of town a lot. I’ve retired so know I’m intent on getting rid of it. I don’t have one of those saws. How far deep should I go with or without the saw. Those stubs from old cuts can be scary. Thanks.
Leticia Reinhart The type we had was 9 to 12 inches deep. The stubs from old cuts are definitely a safety issue. If you can't cut or dig it out you might try cutting it as low as possible and then covering it with plywood, black plastic, etc, anything that will keep light from reaching the plant. It's a theory tossed around on RU-vid, I've never tried it. Thanks for watching!
I successfully cut 500+ bamboos using lopper, but my bamboos are small decorative ones before. I injured many times by the stubs where I could not cut low to the ground level. I am hiring professional to get rid of the roots since it's a hard job.
I'm a 67 yr. old woman. My neighbor does nothing with his cane and it keeps moving to my yard. My 8 yr. old grandson and I use " his" machete, a pair pruners, pick and shovel. Hard work but we do it in small intervals at a time. But I get disc size roots or tubers out of my yard. 😓👫
@Desmond Walker we removed all roots with the saw and tiller, no chemicals, and not one sprout came back. We have a lot of lizards, birds and other wildlife in the yard so we didn't want to use any harmful sprays and we came up with this method. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Tordon RTU , stump killer. A liquid herbicide applied by droplets directly to the cut stalks. Specifically designed for plants with heavy woody stems. Prevents regrowth and kills the roots. Also works on bushes and small trees / saplings. Used correctly will not harm adjacent plants, Not a spray. Apply directly to the stump. Once the plant has died you can cut the stump flush to the soil and the roots will rot in place straight away.
@@Greenyarden I’ve got a horrible bamboo problem myself and it’s my own fault. About 15 years ago I planted both running and clumping bamboo in my yard. Then I went away for a while only to find a forest of bamboo when I returned. I’m almost done cutting it all down with a brush cutter (I recommend the DR Beaver Blade on their push trimmer). My next task is to either do what you did or bring a skid steer in and tear all of the roots up.
See if there’s a public yard-waste disposal center in your community. I dug out the stumps and roots from a patch of giant clumping bamboo, and hauled the debris out to our “environmental park” with a rented trailer and paid something like $3 per 100 lbs. to dump it. Had to load and unload the trailer myself but was glad to get rid of everything with minimal hassle.
The bamboo looks like a clump bamboo. This method of removing the rhizome will not work with running bamboo. But even with clump bamboo I will not use my energy to dig with pics I’ll get a small tractor with a digging bucket
Am watching several as i have a bamboo . Too close to my house for comfort. Hard gettin anyone to do the job so i went out with a (crow bar)?..but its like 5 feet and got a bunch out. Glad i did cause i kmow how it grows. They're runner roots and only a few (maybe 8 or 10) inches down. Horizontal of course, i knew that much. But i just started ....where i was standing and my pruners cut thru the root easili. Chunk by chunk at a time. Its gonna be grueling and tedious but...im gonna tackle it. Heard horror stories of it getting under the foundation so im workimg from the flower beds and house to what i think is the key spot...from there ill get (hire) an excavator to finish it off. Before it ruins my beautiful lawn 😃 and 😔 on the upcoming results. I have faith!
Just bought a house with a ton of bamboo in the backyard it seems to not be growing as much but some shoots come up. I’ve started digging it up. I use an axe and a spade. My concern is that there are a ton of little roots in the soil, do you know if they will grow into anything or is that just the rhizomes that grow?
@Ray Heller I would hate to give you bad advice so I can't say, all I know is that ours never grew back, not even a shoot. I would think that if you see a lot of small shoots later on it may be wise to run a tiller through the area and rake out any remaining pieces. Good luck and thanks for watching and commenting!
Darren Anderson it's the Sun Joe 13.5 amp tiller available at Home Depot, Walmart, and other online retailers. I had stopped posting for a while then this video went viral, I will upload the review video this week. Thanks for watching!
So mine is as tall as yours, If not taller. Would I need to cut some length off before I start to use the saw towards the bottom of the shoots? or can I just start using my saw to cut it all down. I know bamboo is a tricky thing. I
Has it tried to grow back, I saw how you tried to rototil it, sadly some people think they can cut it down cover it with top soil and plant grass over it, and keep mowing WHICH WILL NOT WORK
@Philip Approximately 60 hours to remove 300 square feet (28 sq meters) of bamboo. Some areas were denser and required extra effort but in general I would say 20 sq ft (2 sqm) a day would be a realistic goal for a person using the same tools we did in the video. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I killed all the bamboo in my yard by giving them too much nitrogen. There is saltpeter, stump remover, and hot fertilizer. Actually, I just hid behind my pickup door, and I would just pee on it. It didn't take long before it was all dead down to the roots, and it never grew back. I just got tired of fighting it, and it was always winning.
I have a neighbor that has some bamboo she wants cut down. I need to build a 40' (20' +20') more or less. The owner won't pay for materials so I think I'll make it out of cut bamboo. Should transplant it but I'm not that mean. lol
@Eric Seguin from our bamboo, some pieces turned yellow and hard as wood, others were brown and we could break them by hand. From the yellow we saved some to build wind chimes, good luck and thanks for watching and commenting!
I’m dealing with this in my yard. Bought a house in 2019… bamboo is over grown and it’s the kind that the roots will spread indefinitely. Stupid people plant stuff and don’t know what type of bamboo it is. Regardless, it’s a nightmare. It’s gonna take forever for me to remove it as it’s growing under my porch and into the grout lines of my block house in Florida. Hopefully no damage to the concrete has been done. Bamboo and ficus are the worst trees /grass to plant anywhere near your home. Ficus is just ugly and a weed to me. Looks like there’s no easy way to remove this. Manual labor all the way. I’d be interested in some type of spray or chemical I could spray to kill the roots that made it under my Home.
bamboo is a great plant and its easier to get rid of than any native tree that may be causing foundation issues to a house. they are shallow rooted grasses technically, unlike normal trees that can have torso sized roots reaching down dozens of feet. the issue is just use case and mindset, and management. obviously planting bamboo near a house is just as dumb as planting an oak or pine right beside your house. Bamboo has tons of great uses though for building things, cleaning the environment, privacy fencing, wind blocks for farms, giving a cool shaded area, wildlife habitat, forage for livestock etc. a 3ft deep piece of plastic root barrier stops bamboo in its tracks, a normal tree would grow right down under that as deep as it needs to. what trees do you know of that can provide 7 inch diameter lumber 80 ft tall in less than 3 months? Bamboo is actually the answer to many modern timber issues in the west but we refuse to see its value.
You could probably find people to xome dig up and take that for you for free honestly. Lot of people are looking for the native bamboo and it is nigh impossivle to find it for sale anywhere. My neighbor has running arrow bamboo and i swear its not even affected by chemicals. Ive sprayed everything on earth trying to get rid if it and it seems like nothing does anything to it at all
RIP it ALL out in NOV let the baby roots freeze to death, I went from bamboo self-made hell to a green lawn IT DID GET UNDER ROCKS WHICH MADE IT VERY HARD HUGE ROCKS
i have a small grove of black bamboo that im looking to remove too. So how did you end up removing yours? Also how far away did your black bamboo spread?
@@ericpanda It was a lot of hard, heavy work which was mostly done by my partner. I cut it all down to near soil level first using a saws all. I bought a solid iron wrecking bar which was better than the mattock that I also bought, but it was heavy, so needed someone strong to handle it. Just a case of hacking away around a clump, or at least on one side, to expose a section then trying to get under it. I've saved some in a pot, because it's such a beautiful plant, but it was out of control. Good luck!
@@bridgetkirk7065 thanks for sharing. Do you recall how deep the rhizomes can spread to? Also fyi, I just learned about a phenomenon called gregarious flowering, which is reported to be happening to black bamboos now. Basically they flower and die. Mine haven’t flowered yet. We live in Seattle.
@@ericpanda Interesting, I hadn't heard of that. Erm, definitely less than a foot for the main clumps. It was more that the connections were so strong and tightly massed, so it was hard to isolate a section and get around it on all sides, I even used the blade of the sawsall in the earth to try and cut around, with limited success and several blunt blades. There's a machine called a stump grinder that the professionals use. Maybe they're available for hire where you are. Also an NW Quick Pull, designed for fence posts and trees which I just saw online.
it's funny you bought a 'special blade' but bought a chicago electric saw, for those who don't know chicago electric is basically the cheapest of the cheap you can get at harbor freight usually. Just spend the money on half decent tools, don't buy chicago electric stuff.
Make sure you put black Plastic over the ground, because the sun heats the plastic and kills any bamboo that will grow back. Bamboo is beautiful but Invasive.
Sorry to watch you as it looks like such hard work. Warning to people never grow bamboo in their gardens, once in, impossible to get rid. Should be banned.
