French street trees

[Ty Korrigan]

Rennes, Brittany.

Social housing shaded in the Summer by these planes trimmed into a giant hedge.

Quite a common around the city.

Images taken Saturday 13th Feb.

Despite there being a large open air market around the corner the city feels deserted in the sub zero temperatures.

  Stuart

[Stere]

Nice machine

 

Remimds me that there was a heli version in a James Bond film

 

Edited February 13, 2021 by Stere

[Mick Dempsey]

Nice work.

[Luckyeleven]

Seen them done in brest with a cherry picker and slasher/Bill hook

[Rough Hewn]

The cube trees are weird too.
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[Rich Rule]

They do that in some parts of Oslo.  Poor sods in a mewp with a hedge trimmer.  They are Lime trees though and not Planes.

[woody paul]

That cutter on compact has some reach by the look of that boom. 

[Lowestoft Firewood]

Love the street trees in Paris, proper nice cuboids, look quite striking 

[wicklamulla]

1 hour ago, woody paul said:

That cutter on compact has some reach by the look of that boom. 

rear doubles to aid stability i guess as it must be very unwieldy at full stretch

[woody paul]

1 minute ago, wicklamulla said:

rear doubles to aid stability i guess as it must be very unwieldy at full stretch

I have and still use flail hedge cutter and have used them on slopes were I have had to put arm on ground to stop whole lot tipping over.