Thread: Gardening with my Defender!

My winch is also my favorite gardening tool.

Excellent gardening tool. I pulled out a japonica bush about 1.5m high the other week. Had three 'stems' coming from the root and although I parked the Def with brakes on, in gear and front wheels in the open gutter outside the house the winch pulled the Def up that gutter and the japonica held. I dug around a bit and found there was one root approx half an inch in full tension. Cut that with the hatchet and it came out a charm.

I was surprised by how strong a seemingly small root can be in tension! Still, it would have been a right old pain doing all that by hand and back!

Originally Posted by Parker

Excellent gardening tool. I pulled out a japonica bush about 1.5m high the other week. Had three 'stems' coming from the root and although I parked the Def with brakes on, in gear and front wheels in the open gutter outside the house the winch pulled the Def up that gutter and the japonica held. I dug around a bit and found there was one root approx half an inch in full tension. Cut that with the hatchet and it came out a charm.

I was surprised by how strong a seemingly small root can be in tension! Still, it would have been a right old pain doing all that by hand and back!

Pretty good at pulling out privet and cestrum too… and pushing over the odd black wattle ;-)