Crepe Myrtle removal

Not hard at all if you have the right tools, like a back hoe, flame thrower, chainsaw, and some prayers.

FTR, I enjoy crepe myrtle trees and have about 12 of them lining my backyard perimeter but I am familiar with how difficult they are to remove.

We just bought a house and there's 3 in the backyard that I plan to leave and don't mind but there's one in the front landscaping that's about 5' from the slab but someone also topped it years ago. It's grown back but looks terrible so when we redo the landscaping this spring it's coming out.

That wont solve your problem. I removed 7 at my house in the spring. After chainsawing them to the ground I had a stump grinder guy come in and get as much as he could. Throughout the rest of the Spring until October I had sprout shootups everywhere within 15' of each one. Everytime I cut the lawn I immediately painted a stump/root killer on the open wound of the shootup. I did that for months. Hoping this spring when everything starts growing again I will have successfully killed most of the root system but fully expect to have to do that song and dance again.

So, how would you handle it?

Cut them down to the ground pretty much. Drill some holes in them. FIll the hole with a strong brush killer. Keep filling it up for a good month. try to check it everyday, if it's dry, fill it up.

I've removed at least a dozen in my yard. There was one i pulled out with my truck and was able to rip out almost the whole root system, as it was a younger one. That was very effective. One large one i had that was stump grinded still has sprouts shoot up today, and it was grinded 4 years ago.
The ones that i have cut and killed with weed killer have been successful at not resprouting up.

What Teddy said will work better than what I did. Problem for me was I couldn't let them sit for a month. I was doing a full landscape reno and next thing after I cut them down was to was to poison them like he said until the grinder got there then after that what I noted in my first post was what I did.

This is the way.

Cut them down, leave a few inches of trunk, drill a bunch of holes and fill them with non diluted round up or similar. I filled mine quite a few times over a couple of weeks, you need the tree to really soak up the poison to make them go away.

If you put the holes on the edge of the parameter, you will have a faster kill. Where the bark meets the wood is where trees will draw in the most herbicide. Drilling holes in the center of the stump will not work as good as drilling on the edges

My landscaping guy said to have my tree guy grind it down real well. When he comes to work the flower beds they will clean it out really well.