Hedge fund

[peds]

Yo what up dudes,

 

Anyone want to pluck a number out of their arse for me?

 

What would you be looking to quote for taking out 100m of overgrown agricultural hedge; goat willow, ash, holly, hawthorn, gorse, bramble; 4-6m high the length of it, a few of the ash and willow up to 10m. Anything for firewood left in heaps, all chip dropped further up the lane on site. Sheep wire and barbed wire embedded in some of the bigger stems.

 

Humour me, we are building a house and improving this lane is the first step, we'll try and keep a tally of what we spend, and what we save by doing it ourselves. You never know, if I save us enough cash I might get a bonus from the wife.

 

100m of the hedge on the left there.

Cheers all.

[spandit]

Could this hedge not be laid instead of uprooted?

[peds]

1 minute ago, spandit said:

Could this hedge not be laid instead of uprooted?

Not really, the whole berm from which they are growing is being moved over a metre to the east. I'm fairly sure that a lot of it will bounce back from the rootstock anyway, the goat willows will just laugh it off and be five feet tall by this time next year. Some of the hawthorn and holly too, I imagine. But it's being replanted with a wider variety of species, including a load of fruits and nuts, and a few trees I've got in my own nursery now.

[Stere]

Some crab apple john downie, bullace, damsons,  plums, quince, pears, elder flower, apples, cob nuts ,sweet chesnut cultivars etc would be nice.

 

Seen Butchers broom  under some hegdes very shade tolerant

 

 

[peds]

John Downie, thanks for the variety suggestion. It has been noted.

All of the others you mention definitely have a place with the exception of sweet chestnut, which I don't think do particularly well around my way (which is a pity), and pear, which I'm thoroughly unenthusiastic about. I've never been excited about a pear the same way I have about an apple, for example.

[peds]

Noone is willing to put a price tag on it? Feel free to highball it if you want!

 

 

[Dan Maynard]

Noone is willing to put a price tag on it? Feel free to highball it if you want!
 
 

Never price off a photo, it's in the rules.

Say 1.5k if we can burn and 3k if we can't.

[peds]

16 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

Say 1.5k if we can burn and 3k if we can't.

Very helpful, thanks for that Dan.