Hi,
Contrary to my current policy of concentrating on what I've got (as opposed to acquiring more trees), I found this too good of an opportunity.
A very large Cotoneaster on the sale table at a local garden centre for £20/$35 with 2 x 1 inch plus trunks.
Wildly overgrown with 6 foot branches. I had to prune it in the car park to get it into the car!
Have since removed a ton of branches as you can see but left trunk line(s) options open.
The root ball is absolutely solid and I had to cut the pot off. Although I've sawed the bottom half of the root ball off and soaked it I'm at a bit of a loss on how to proceed.
1/ Cut out wedges?
2/ Pointed stick and try to untangle?
3/ High pressure hose (and save the water of course)?
4/ Brute force and ignorance?
Anyone have a favoured method or combination.
Advice appreciated and it may help others.
The pic quality is low (but clear enough IMO) in order to fit the file on sorry.
Thanks
TimR