This is what I love about Tree Surgery

[surreyarborist]

Addicted to the smell when shredded up.

Here is a pic of yesterdays endeavours 4 years ago I took 15foot out of the height of this one,and you can see the height that the punter can rech upto with the 3rd lidel leccy hedge trimmer.

So this was a short back and side and a climb along the top ala Pikey mode to cut back about 4 foot of top growth.

Upper sides generated 16 big bags of waste and tops shreeded up into 5 bags worth of woodchip mulch.

It was quicker to put the side clippings in the bags than to shred them as the punter was going to take them to the tip himself for free.

I use a plastic sheet insert for keeping the bag open and upright for filling and this simple idear has saved me literary hundreds of hours. (simple idears the best)

camera phone pic

Clive

[b101uk]

I quite like doing Leylandi hedges.

 

For siding up I use to put a tarpaulin off a 40ft semi-trailer down at the base of the hedge to catch all the trimmings, you could then easily pull one end or side of the tarpaulin to the other to get all the trimmings in one place or fold the tarpaulin in on its self trapping the trimmings within the tarpaulin and just put the whole lot in the trailer then unfold & empty back at the yard.

 

The other use was were the hedge had flower beds, as you could use the rope eyelets on the tarpaulin to fix it ~>1m up the hedge then use blocks of railway sleeper to hold the tarpaulin taught catching a bulk of the trimmings which would slide down the slope of the tarpaulin, this way only the lower ~1m of trimmings falls on the flower beds neatly at the base without spreading all over the place like the upper trimmings do, witch make clearing up much easer/faster.

[Rich Rule]

One from a couple of weeks ago. about 12 - 15 foot of the top. From the pic it looks a bit small but was 7 foot tall. Counted about 36 in total.

[MattyF]

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crap photo that dont do justice we where topping out 2 -10 ton grain trailer loads of chip a day on the boarders of

RAF alconburry for 2 weeks, atleast a mile of leylandii.......my initiation for the last job i was employed at before going self employed.......luckily i didnt see any hedges for a while after that and no hedge can seem to big after!

[Marc]

Yes, I took a look in the Hydraulic tank to make sure the fluid levels were ok, but no problems.

 

I would'nt be worried about hydraulic levels, its the oil in the sump when running at those angles for prolonged lengths of time that can be a problem, I know someone who siezed their engine running it like that.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I would'nt be worried about hydraulic levels, its the oil in the sump when running at those angles for prolonged lengths of time that can be a problem, I know someone who siezed their engine running it like that.

 

 

Spot on Marc, a good point.

 

me being a fully qualified mechanic already new to check.

 

But for those who don't know a nut from a bolt, it's a good point. Most modern engines have a deeper section to their sump which is normally in the mid section of the sump to allow for a certain amount of incline without letting all the oil sit to one end so starving the oil pickup of a pool of oil.

 

Well spotted

[Rentachimp]

I work for a firm called conifers from hell

 

'Nuff said, really. Every other day we're on them, and more often in the spring and summer.

 

I'm very safety conscious, but I can't recall how many of these (in hedge form) I've found it easier to free climb, with just a strop to be used for tricky sections.

[surreyarborist]

Getting it back under control this is only 1/3rd of the length. Chips squirted with the vermeer throu the hedge and to the back boundry fence. (nice little dodge) If the govt was serious about carbon capture with trees they would be planting forests of leylandi !

[Steve Bullman]

looks fun!

[scotspine1]

I work for a firm called conifers from hell

 

'Nuff said, really. Every other day we're on them.

 

No wonder Rentachimp quit treework.