Moving a tree

Ive discovered that tree roots and drystone walling don't really go together. The tree roots grow slowly and gradually disrupt the wall. That was one of the problems at my first attempt at walling .





In one of the other walls there is a tree poking through.
Trees take a while to get going here, so the thought  was to  remove the wall from the tree, remove the tree  and relocate it  somewhere - hopefully with a good start  it will grow.



So I started to take the wall down with the aim of digging up the tree, reasonably intact and then rebuilding the wall and relocating the tree.

It was clear that the problem wasn't a  a tree growing up through the wall .

The roots of the tree were growing horizontally  and not connected to the ground .




And I put a bit of timber under the root system to demonstrate. So what had happened is that a seed must have fallen on the wall and then taken root and grown over the years  - a good many years by the size of it.  The reason for this is that the wall as originally constructed didn't have and

So the tree was removed and relocated . Looking at the shape and size it may end up more a bush - planted in the area we use to raise chicks so hopwfully to provide some protection from hooded crows that are known to take chicks if they can .








And the wall rebuilt - not as extensive a job as I'd thought