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Matthew Paul#2 Contractors Contributor
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NEVER buy a property covered with BAMBOO

Matthew Paul#2 Contractors Contributor
  • Severna Park, MD
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Lessons learned , I bought this duplex for a great price , yard all overgrown and about 1/2 acre of 40 ft tall bamboo . I just spent all weekend with a rented tracked skidsteer loader with a monster bushhog cutting this bamboo down and grinding it up . it was more than my kubota's bushhog could handle , I still have at least another day with a york rake to clean up and pile the stuff up .At least I can pile it in the back of the lot , it would fill about six 40 yd cans .

The fun part was this skidsteer and bushhog ripped thru the bamboo and it would grind up 4 inch saplings , I knocked over a couple trees roots and all came up .

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Lynn Dee Murrow
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Lynn Dee Murrow
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even though you knocked it down it will grow right back. I had Bamboo on a property in California. Only way I found to get rid of it was to dig the roots out of the ground. Mine was about 50 feet by 5 feet...can't imagine half and acre. What is your plan after you knock down what is there?

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