How do I remove this stupid bush?

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Cut all the sticks to ground level with lopping shears, dump a bucket of rock salt on top of it to cover and slowly pour a gallon or two of boiling vinegar over that. Then cover with something dark and heavy and leave for a few weeks.

Is it a quince (red flowers in spring)? - it sort of looks like it.

Chain coupled to truck and rip it out.

I would be inclined to cover it with a piece of strong black plastic. Put bricks or large stones along the edge of the black plastic to keep it there. In a short time, the bush keeps growing trying to get to the light, but being under black plastic, it uses up all it's energy and dies.
Once it has died, either cut back the dead branches to ground level or put some soil over the top of it to decompose it.

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Michael W. Smith in North-West Pennsylvania

"Everything happens for a reason."

Another vote for tordon stump killer here. I used it last fall on honeysuckle. The stuff works great and you really use very little.

I like fire.
It seems to be pretty close to that window but I still would cut the top and bottom out of a 55 gallon drum, set it over that mess and light a fire in it.
If it doesn't burn well only use about 12 inches of the barrel.
Did I say I like fire? As long as it is not touching the wood around that window and you don't get too crazy with your fire that will do it in without any chemicals. Fire is better than chemicals. IMHO

I have dug up many bushes and for me the trick is to soak the ground first and I do much better at digging.

Water the area heavily for a couple hours a day for 3 days, then you can easily dig it out.

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Several large boilers, stock pots, stewpots, Dutch ovens of boiling water poured on the stumps early in the morning. Let the last soak in but not cool down before pouring the next.

This kills some of the plant, and soaks/loosens the soil.

Make sure all tool handles are VERY solidly attached. You'll be using them hard, and if they come adrift I double-dog-guarantee you the heavy heads will hastily head for the window.

Use a mattock to dig a trench round the stems, AT LEAST one foot deep.
Use a heavy axe to cut down criss-cross through the mass of stems to below ground level, breaking them up into 2" clumps.
Use the axe-side of the mattock to split "shavings" about an inch thick off the plant mass, into the trench. Use the axe when you must, but the mattock is the tool that can do most best with least damage to itself. Keep going around the stem-and-root mass, splitting off pieces and pulling them loose and away, until either you or the plant have run out of whatever you've got to give to this process.
If it was you rather than the plant mass that gave out first, repeat the boiling water process then cover in opaque bags (preferably) or plastic, and leave until tomorrow.

Repeat this day after day until the plant mass has been reduced to a draggled stump far underground. At no stage let green leaf regrowth live above ground. Cook it and cover it.

Fill the trench and cover the plant mass with ammonium nitrate or urea fertiliser, top with water, then add more fertiliser then water then f. then w. then... until you have a stable mound slightly above ground. Add light-proof cover, leave for two months, then dig in and remove remnants of plant mass.

These fertilisers are oxygen sources. If you do have to resort to fire, they will have infiltrated through the plant tissues, wet or dry, and the fire will follow it all like a wick. If no fire, then they will help rot do the same job, although a lot slower.

Now have surgeons remove remnants of your mascerated, ulcerated, gangrenous hands. Regret greatly that you didn't have the common sense to buy robust heavy-duty leather work gloves, maybe even welding gauntlets, before you started all this.

Sawzall

Thank you for all the great suggestions!!

I want it out sooner rather than later, so I am going to go buy a pick ax. Any excuse for another tool, right?

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...............I wouldn't buy a pick axe , that is more for rock and cement , look for a grubbing hoe.........smaller , lighter and a lot easier to swing !
, fordy

Tell the goats to leave it alone. Put a little fence around it. The goats will knock the fence down to have a forbidden feast. They always kill everything around here I want to keep.

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Vinegar, salt and very hot water mixed together in a big bucket and then pour it on. This will kill it including the roots. I used this combination on huge poison ivy vine and it killed it out in a few days. That's been two years ago and it has not come back. Good luck.

I would just like to point out that I was good and did not post the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread title. I think brownie points are in order here.

Edited to add: The Brazilians seem to be quite good at this kind of problem.

lol!!!!!!!

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Michael W. Smith in North-West Pennsylvania

"Everything happens for a reason."

I had 5 of those punji stake bushes as I call them that my maintenance man cut to 4 or 5 inches with his small chainsaw and I then poured a box of ice crème churning salt in the middle of the stump stakes to kill the bush root without being toxic to my barn and yard cats.

I still have vegetation dead rings around the bushes but the remnants are slowly mulching down to ground level from the mowings and eventually the alkaline soil should ph correct.

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Go get a box of --black-- trash bags be very generous in covering---more that one layer---several. Now pave it with bricks. Good place to now put a trash can.
Walk away and do not un cover for . . . .hey . .next year.
When digging . .Getting --ALL-- the roots out can be very difficult . . .If you miss one or two . . . . .that shall return

digging is not the best idea.........

I understand you said no chemicals but there is no reason to make it that hard on yourself.

Tordon works fine but diesel is a lot cheaper - just dump a gallon of diesel on it and repeat in a few weeks if necessary. I have killed everything from bushes to oak trees with a few gallons of diesel.

HAHAHA!!!! Not that kind of bush!

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And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
The Cloud
Percy Bysshe Shelley