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

[sloth]

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...

Edited March 17, 2023 by sloth

[Mick Dempsey]

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

[sloth]

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!

[waterbuoy]

Have to admit my first thought was three days if getting paid on a daily rate, two if fixed!

[Mick Dempsey]

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.

Edited March 17, 2023 by Mick Dempsey

[sloth]

Customer insisted on that height for privacy/security reasons. In any case I may need to adjust my expectations, or go out myself for a few days as a reminder!

[topchippyles]

18 minutes ago, sloth said:

Customer insisted on that height for privacy/security reasons. In any case I may need to adjust my expectations, or go out myself for a few days as a reminder!

Get out on the tools sounds a horrible job. 

[Dan Maynard]

Last blackthorn I did was cut sides back hard, horrible tangly stuff took twice as long as I thought.

 

If your hedge is 2m wide then the middle is a bastard to get to, doesn't sound much fun to me.

 

[Stere]

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?

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 17, 2023 by Stere

[swinny]

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....