Thorny Shrub Removal

[dbrown]

Can anyone share how they cut back shrub roses and haul to the curb without getting shredded to pieces. They are about 4 feet high and are tangled up like over grown Forsythia.
Thanks in advance!

[PROMO]

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a freind of mine had wild roses growing up the side of his house into the attic covering his kids window i cut it down raked it into the yard and ran it over about 8 times with my ztr until it was gone spent the next three hrs wiring the phone and satellite i guess they didnt want to climb the rose to install properly

[Jack]

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I cleaned some recently that I bagged and left at the curb, I used some old big barbecue tongs to pickup the real thorny pieces and put in the bag. It saved me from getting stuck with thorns.

[Keth]

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I recently had to remove some rose bushes. My wife drives a Land Rover Discovery with a huge Warn winch on the front. Wrap the cable around and push the button........ Voila, no more rose bush. Heavy gloves to get it to the burn pile.

Keth

[cole1980]

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Get some HEAVY Neoprene-Coated Gloves. They are shinny look like plastic. Can get almost anywhere. Worked best for me. They usually have slightly bent formed fingers. These work.

[grasshopper]

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Yeah, your first thing should be to get some heavy duty gloves that will prevent the thorns from penetrating them. You could use a large rake or soemthign to pull them to wherever they are going. Usually thorny bushes will stick together so if you grab one with a rake or your gloves, the others will stay attached and you can pull them all to the curb at one time or so.