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How long's a piece of string? Or, how long to trim hedge?


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This has been bugging me, thoughts please...

 

20m (65 foot) long blackthorn hedge, 2.4m (8 foot) tall, 2m (6 foot) wide. All tangly from years of tight trimming.

 

Using a chainsaw to wade into it and remove one side only, then the top, chucked in a truck (parked alongside) to be removed and tipped.

 

It'd be about 50cm (2 foot, ish) from one side only. Then bring the height from 2.4 to 2m (about 8 foot down to 6.5 foot, ish). Nice easy (if spiky) job I thought... seems not...

How long do you reckon it'd take you, with 2 guys on site? Cheers...

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21 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

There’s a backstory here that I think you should share first.

Ha! Fair enough 👍 I quoted as an easy day, probably a half, for 2 guys. They're going back for a 3rd day to 'hopefully' finish. Now either I've been off the tools too long and remember my own abilities with rose tinted glasses, or the new subbies aren't what I want!

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Well I dunno, maybe they’re swinging the lead, maybe not, if I had been sent to a job like that you’d have heard me cursing from the next county.

 

I would have specified it down to 5ft so they don’t have to use a ladder or anything, 6.5ft is a bastard height to achieve.

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Does sound a but much that taking 3 days but there is always  alot more volume of material to remove than expectected on jobs like that.

 

How many truck fulls of stuff was it in the end?

 

A forestry type saw blade on bruscutter might be the tool for it cut all the suckers of at the the base narrow the top down to 3ft?

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Well I dunno, maybe they’re swinging the lead, maybe not, if I had been sent to a job like that you’d have heard me cursing from the next county.

 

I would have specified it down to 5ft so they don’t have to use a ladder or anything, 6.5ft is a bastard height to achieve.

Bang on.... 4 foot even better! 

 

Sounds a shite job.... 

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