Removing conifers

[Pablo]

Dig them out like normal they should be very easy at that size. Take out the stumps but leave the roots they'll rot away saving you the bother. Regrowth isn't a problem with conifers as they don't tolerate any pruning past the limit of their last needles. As soon as you cut into the brown dead looking stuff that part will not regrow.

[Kiff]

I removed a line of Leylandii about 18 months ago, digging out some but then decided that cutting the trunk below the soil level was ok. Sure enough, no regrowth on any of them to date.
I cut one back to the trunk and left it standing and looking for all the waorld like a decapitated lamp post.
Now, 18 months on, it has sprouted and bushed all over itself and I'm actually planning to keep it in because it looks so green.
The only way to get rid of 'em completely is to dig 'em out.

[Pablo]

You've got a freak of nature there mate.

[lutonlagerlout]

ye i have been told they never come back?
LLL