Advice re taking a 15ft hedge down to 10ft

[Puffingbilly413]

2 hours ago, Stubby said:

I got caught out on a job like that back in the day . I had an 10x8 double axle trailer you could hold a dance in . No chipper . I spent 3 days on it and several trips to the green waste site ( stubbs cops at Arundel )  Rashering it all up with a saw to get as much in as I could , forking it all out took ages with blokes with tippers  queued up behind me . On the last day at the green waste tip I lost the will to live . I was saved buy a young bloke With shoulders the width of a barn door , hands like shovels who just wanted to tip up . He could see I was spent and he just mucked it and grabbed huge armfulls and got me cleared . I vowed never , ever again in the world X 10 Amen .

This is the thing with cypress hedges.  If you've got the standard 6 or even 8" chipper then you spend so much time cutting the stuff up to feed it through you may as well put it on a trailer and tip it.  But then the mash comes in and it never comes off the trailer.  And it's usually when I've taken the battery off the trailer to charge/recondition and forgotten to put it back on.

 

Lovely levely hedges.

[AHPP]

1 hour ago, doobin said:

It’s so easy with the right tools lads. 

 

I was reading this thread this morning and have some sketches somewhere in a foot or two radius of where I'm sat now of tripods, cranes and gantries made of stage lighting truss. I suspect you were talking about your man basket though?

Edited August 31, 2022 by AHPP

[doobin]

8 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

I was reading this thread this morning and have some sketches somewhere in a foot or two radius of where I'm sat now of tripods, cranes and gantries made of stage lighting truss. I suspect you were talking about your man basket though?

Man basket, mini chipper. Pass it down straight into the throat of the chipper, get it gone.

[Rich Rule]

They are a pain in the arse, no doubt.  I have done hundreds of Cypress Hedges over the years.  Hopping from stem to stem, taking that leap of faith when there is a bit of cover but you can quite see what you are about to step onto.

 

This was one I posted up here years ago.  A lot of cutting with a 200t.  150’s and mini toppers weren't on the radar back then.

 

Shit work but sometimes you just gotta get on with it.