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

[woody paul]

Christ are they cutting it with bow saw and loppers. Best thing to atack black thorn once cut is digger. 

[Will C]

2 hours ago, swinny said:

Bang on.... 4 foot even better! 

 

Sounds a shite job.... 

4 inch sounds far better

[Peter 1955]

4 hours ago, Stere said:

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?

 

 

 

 

 

The Stihl Kombi is my weapon of choice for this type of job. Either the pole pruner with a longer bar ( a 16" one from my old 023 ) or this blade on the brushcutter for the sides. Wouldn't be the first, or the last time I'd underestimated the amount of waste on a job. 

Edited March 17, 2023 by Peter 1955

[sloth]

Cheers all. Think I best adjust my expectations!

[Mesterh]

Ok, it sounds like a shite job but 20 feet of hedge a day! 

I think someone is taking the piss there.

 

Side up and top 20 foot of spiky shit does not take the best part of a day, not even for one bloke with a set of loppers.

 

[Stere]

Thats the blade i have.

 

 

[Treetom15]

Depends if it’s full of old fencing wire, if they’re having to sharpen their saws every 10 minutes that will slow them down! Chainsaw with a long bar and a long handles muck fork to load the truck would do it I’d think. 
 

3 days does sound excessive, but (like everyone else has said) it sounds like an awful job so 6 of one…….

[Clutchy]

Can you post a pic and sat view of the run? 

 

Sounds horrible and timeous and oddly high on exertion, especially pulling the tangled bits out 

 

My idea of hell, I never win these jobs for a reason 😂

[MattyF]

I had the same yesterday and had to cancel the felling job booked in for the afternoon, I thought I would have finished 60ft of blackthorn and hawthorn mixed and 20ft of gappy beach done in a morning.. hedge was wider than it was tall, the terrain was a nightmare for setting up steps and the material just a little too big for hedge cutters so needed a chain saw for most of it, I also took it back on there side two feet past previous and bevelled the top to let more light in to thicken it, finished around 5 yesterday , I’m pretty sure if I’d left it to a couple of the guys who work for us to do the cutting it would of been two days.. I begged the customer to next time take full advantage of the estates flail next time it does the outsiders chuck him a drink to do as much as they can reach in the top. 

[lux]

If you can park a van alongside then mechanical intervention would have been my preferred MO in the form of a flail.  Would have been given the full on farmer treatment from the comfort of a cab …