go to a good nursery ... and find an equivalently sized plant.. and study the pot or the ball and burlap for how big a professional would do it ... that will clue you in to the MINIMUM size ... a little bigger never hurt ... before you go ... snip off a piece of yours from the rear .. and have the nurseryman ID the plant for you ... and then ask him what it is worth ... how fast it grows.. etc ... then go back home.. and consider the SCOPE of what you are thinking about doing ... versus the cost of what you are doing .... per 6 foot plant.. i could easily see 4 to 6 hours of intense extreme physical labor ... if you dig a 2 to 3 foot rootball .. will you be able to drag that 100 to 200 pounds of soil plus plant across your property ... etc ... again.. depending on the plant.. you may be able to invest 100 to 200 dollars in some decent plants for the back .. and just chainsaw these down to the ground ... and get the front of your house back ... on top of all that ... larger.. older plants.. have a much harder time dealing with the stress of moving them.. short of hiring big guys with big machines to do it right ... BTW... make sure you know where all your buried utilities are... its the old cost benefit analysis .... good luck with that .. lol when all is said and done... there is a big difference between what CAN BE DONE... and what SHOULD BE DONE .... yes its possible.. but should you do it... too much work.. and failure rate is too high ... i vote no ... be done with them ... good luck ken

Sure thing, the drier the better and if its a d.i.y. thing, less leaves leaves you to see what you're doing better. Kimm, what's the matter about cutting a tree down yourself if you have whatwithall and wherewithall to get it done. Paying, perhaps exhorbitant amounts of money just to put a chainsaw to a piece of wood seems, to me, one way to put a large amount of money in someone else's pocket instead of leaving it where it is. If a person isn't afraid to use a chainsaw up in the tree---that's the big thing--that's the thing that scares people off--handling a chainsaw...along with other array of saws, ropes and ladder, up a platform whose footing isn't always a firm one.

Thanks, everyone! I didn't see any more sprouts today but with this nice weather I'm hoping to see more soon! My gram and uncle were up a few days ago and gave me 14 more water jugs! Guess what I'll be doing this weekend lol! Brad AKA Moonwolf

I don't know about Shamrockin' and all of that but I did think about green all day long. I planted my grass seed!