Now getting to the point of this thread - the root sickle.
This tree is probably 30+ years old and has been well cared for as a bonsai, so it has no large knobby roots, but it does have a thick pad of roots that needs desperately to be reduced, and a few criscrossing roots at the surface.
Growing in the bathtub shaped container didn't really help it much. It gave the root system room to grow, and kept the tree healthy, but at the expense of a fine radial root system.
Using the root scythe, we can rapidly cut through a thick root pad like this one.
