Tree Popper - Medium

If you have squirrels or birds and you have any kind of fruit or nut trees, that the animals generously plant at will on your property, you need this device! We have a small pecan orchard of 13 huge almost 70 yr old trees and many, many mulberry trees that seemingly grow 3’ overnight, out of no where. Between just those two varieties of trees I am constantly pulling up saplings that the birds or squirrels have planted in my ground cover garden areas on our 2.3 acres. If you do not have experience with pecan saplings, let me share. Pecan trees are notoriously hard to pull up, because the pecan sprouts thru a split in the shell. However, the shell and nut do not disintegrate. Instead, the nut stays intact in the shell and the shell provides a huge underground anchor of sorts to stabilize the new tree. Usually a 12” pecan tree is about all I can pull up by hand, However, with this tool, I can pop a 0.5- 0.75” stem diameter pecan tree 4’ tall out of the ground and not injure my back or shoulders!! It uses a pincher grip with teeth to grasp the sappling, then fulcrum mechanics and body weight to pop the tree and roots out of the ground with ease. It’s simply Amazing!! The hardest part is lifting the tool up and moving it into position to pop out the next tree. I love this thing! I bought the middle size. It is so well made, I do not see it ever breaking or me needing to buy the next size up. I can see this awesome tool being handed down in the family or staying with the property for generations of owners to come. It’s seriously made to last.

Works as designed. I tested it after unboxing and it was so efficient I kept using it and ended up removing 9 buckthorn saplings in 10 minutes. Many of these were within my alpine current hedge but I was able to get the jaws around the sapling and remove the tree only. This is a perfect tool for my yard.

Works best on small single trunk saplings. The tool itself is very heavy. Worked so far about 50% of the time. If the sapling was too big I couldn’t get it out. If the sapling had multiple trunks (because I’d just been cutting it and it resprouted for example) it rarely worked. Sometimes the sapling snapped at the base and I was using such force it made me fall, so I’d make sure you have a spotter. I’m still conflicted if it’s worth it.

This is a wonderful, solid device that one learns how much one really, really needed it. However, it is expensive.

It breaks off the roots. Does not pull out roots cuts top at ground level leaving roots to grow again.

Works great and sturdy. May require rocking to pull out most deeply rooted.

Wow is this thing built like a tank. I've had some saplings growing along my house for YEARS. in behind some bushes. I dug one up two years ago and it was way more of a job than I expected, so I just cut the rest down as low as possible in the spring the past two years and watch in frustration as they regrow. No more. I removed four of them in, no joke - 5 minutes using this tool. This is maybe one of the best examples I've ever seen of the difference it makes having the right tool for the job. There's no doubt this is pretty expensive for a manual tool, but it is absolutely a high quality, well made tool that I have no doubt will last a lifetime.