Stu.H

Need some help or advice!

I've got a long garden, and need to get my hedge sorted.

Heres a pic



How can I get this back to a reasonable state of repair LOL

I want something better than just cutters as it would take me WEEKS to sort, can you get anything so I can just walk down the garden and cut it all to one level? Yes petrol chainsaws get stuck

This is the thickness of some of the branches (although this is one of the most extreme)



Could get a digger round the neighbours (we live at the end of a cul-de-sac) and rip the fookin lot out, alternatively some optimax and a blow torch <<missus dont like that idea tho

So any ideas, or have I gotta go at it single handedly with my loppers I bought and burn as I go?

How much would a pro charge to get this shaped like a long box?

allsteel

If you can get a digger round the back you would be able to get a farmer to cut the top down to size with his tractor mounted hedgecutter.Once you get the height down do the garden side of the hedge with a powered hedgecutter,either electric or petrol.Take care though they're lethal things.

pollocks

that privet hedge would take about half hour to do with a set of hedgetrimmers mate and then doing it like every month in the summer growth season would take same but have less the clear up

i work here ...http://www.gracelandscapes.com/index.html

Stu.H

Half hour?



Maybe the pic is deceiving!!

Charge me Ł100 an hour and I will *GLADLY* pay you Ł50 for your 30 mins work

fuzzy

get yourself a cheap chainsaw(hire or buy) and a wobbly chair to stand on and get stuck in.dont burn it, itll belch smoke across the district. take it to your local dump or fly tip the waste in a layby
youll have thaat done on a saturday afternoon.

pollocks

mate if you were closer i would do it for you but your miles away !

pollocks

btw measure the length of it am thinking its 60ft max !

Stu.H

Will do

Not far off

Its about 80ft-90ft from start to finish (including the patio) so you were pretty accurate!

foreigneRS

i'm no gardener, but i can see that your lawn needs mowing. hope that helps

rocky_robin

I did something similar to my hedge, which was let loose by the previous owner. I've got pics at home of the amount I trimmed back. Some branches required them to be sawn off.

Me and the dad-in-law just started at one end and I just lopped the branches off to try and keep it straight. It looked sh!te after we had finished as all the green was gone, and all there was left was the branches. It was on the road side of the house, so it didn't make any difference when looking out into the garden.
I year later and it has grown new buds and much more like a hedge!

A week or so later, my neighbour farmer said that he could have done it with it purpose-made cutting disc on the back of his tractor and could have made it all level, using the road as a marker!! GGGRRRRRR!!!!
Nevermind, all my cuts and scratches healed in a week.

joffy

iTrader: (1)

ive got a Stihl HS81R with 30" blade that will cut through pretty much everything, just need to take the odd few that are too big with some loppers

Ed1

We have one of these, a 50" single sided blade and that would cut throught most things loppers wouldnt! awsome machine but it kills your arms!

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Stu.H

Looks like its just going to be hard graft then, or should I say harder graft than I would have wanted!

rocky_robin

Here's what I did. Pics were taken half way through the job (damn focus picked up too close in the first pic!)