Advice re taking a 15ft hedge down to 10ft

[Mark Bolam]

Yep, that’s why I stopped doing them.

[Rich Rule]

8 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Yep, that’s why I stopped doing them.

It’s character building, ya soft lad.

[Mark Bolam]

It’s working for clueless tightarses who can’t be arsed to maintain their hedges properly is what it is.

[Will C]

It’s one thing I don’t miss, big hedges.

 

edit: I don’t miss hedges end of

Edited August 30, 2022 by Will C
Hedges are crap

[spudulike]

I have a 11' hedge around my garden, I face it twice a year and have worked hard at keeping the depth of the hedge and height down without killing it.....if you go in too deep on Leylandii, it won't come back. 

I actually climb up each trunk and lop the top off with a silky as it is often easier than getting the ladders out.

Those tripod ladders are a superb idea, I invented those whilst wobbling on mine and then found out "they were a thing"!!

The dead bits on a top of a Leylandii tree are rock hard and as others have said, not hedge trimmer material, it wont do the gearbox or blades any good and in bad cases, have seen clutches sheared in bad cases!

[dan blocker]

3 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

It’s working for clueless tightarses who can’t be arsed to maintain their hedges properly is what it is.

Exactly this - totally irresponsible and short sighted.
That hedge won’t stand a reduction and ever look good. Think of a high price and double it.
Reminds me also why the only two hedges I trimmed(apart from my own) were for the bloke that worked on my vehicles and he’s retired and moved and a wealthy couple who I also used to do all their tree work and they’re now divorced. Still working on how I get rid of my own hedges but think divorce will be a very high price to pay🤔

[Macpherson]

9 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

It’s working for clueless tightarses who can’t be arsed to maintain their hedges properly is what it is.

 

That is a very true statement these days regardless of  which trade or or job you're doing for the 'general public ' ... most of them are stupid beyond belief.. IMO😆

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

On 30/08/2022 at 14:35, Con said:

This one seems harmless until you get the side on view

Standart situation, I always said hedges is the hardest work possible in our trade. 

[Mark Bolam]

It will be a standard situation all the time you agree to do shit work for idiots.

[Con]

1 hour ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

Standart situation, I always said hedges is the hardest work possible in our trade. 

Wasn't my job, by the way, I'd have run a mile from that!