Moving raspberry plant in July?

i am in the process of purchasing some of my neighbours garden, however, where I will need to move a couple of fence panels is a big raspberry bush, planted about 4 yrs ago.

If I dig it out and replant it in a new position in the new garden will it just die? Would be a shame as the kids gathered about 20 fresh raspberries today!

 

Consider planting in a big pot and placing somewhere shady plus keep moist until it recovers. I've found that reducing height of the canes has always helped them re-establish.

 

No fruit likely this year though ant
Try it but look for "runners" and pot them up. I would use a john innes compost though. Plant out in September or October.
For me, replanting a large raspberry bush is not the way to go in the long term. If you do replant and you get the rootball up intact watering well and regularly is necessary if you want to try to have fruit this year

 

Is it a summer or autumn fruiting raspberry?
If you follow the advice above, my personal advice would be to reiterate: water, WATER, WATER!!!!
Moving *any* plant will cause stress to some degree or other; doing so at this time of year, when in full growth spurt will only mean it will be under a *lot* of stress.
Some thoughts: if you reduce the size of the top growth (as per @Scrungee suggestion), try popping some of those *cuttings* into a pot of soil - they may or may not "take" but you have nothing to lose by trying

Good luck with your planned purchase and it all goes smoothly.
Just remember: the very *worst* thing that can happen is ... you lose a raspberry bush; on the plus side, you gain precious land to plant more raspberry bushes *into* ... they are really not an expensive plant