Pressed for time, I had to almost wrench them out the ground using a spade and was amazed to find that I wasn't finding lots of tiny root hairs beneath, just a really solid piece of wood with the odd side branch sticking out. Contrast this with 10 one-year Erika canes I got at a local nursery, which has lots of root hairs and not much else.
I'm a bit worried that I may have taken the Teri-Louise's out too quickly and left root hairs behind, but even lifting one plant very gently didn't seem to reveal any root hairs there. Most odd!
Anyway, I took them to my new allotment and healed them in; they'll get planted in their final home hopefully by the end of the coming week.
About 7 years ago, I moved most of the plants between allotment sites in my previous town, lifting them after dark. Not only did they transplant fantastically, but produced masses of fruit the same year.
Other people I have known kill raspberries as soon as look at them
