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

[doobin]

41 minutes ago, lux said:

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 … 

This, or at the very least have a digger and grab on site to stuff it into the truck.

 

I won't touch the stuff by hand, it's not worth the time off with an infected stab. Wouldn't ask my blokes to either.

[Hillbillee]

I'd like to have seen a photo of said hedge. Might have have been a corker to lay.

[doobin]

1 hour ago, Hillbillee said:

I'd like to have seen a photo of said hedge. Might have have been a corker to lay.

Ten foot mature blackthorn? You utter sadist!

 

I bet fetish clubs put on special nights just for people like you. 

Edited March 18, 2023 by doobin

[swinny]

7 hours ago, MattyF said:

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. 

I often do that also. Tell them catch local farmer for these shitty mixed hedges road side or side of a field. Massive saving to customers and more pleasurable me not doing it 😎 

[Ty Korrigan]

Are there no nice trees to cut instead?

 

 

Edited March 18, 2023 by Ty Korrigan

[monkeybusiness]

From the description the finished height combined with the width is the killer - I can see how time would get eaten up fannying around trying to not get stabbed on a job like that.

However, 3 days has to be taking the piss.

Definitely a flail job, if there is access then blokes shouldn’t be cutting that crap (you’d end up with a better hedge if flailed by someone half-decent too). 

[Macpherson]

I don't disagree any of the comments re tractor and flail, but this underrated  simple chainsaw attachment is much better than anyone would expect when dealing with this sort of job if it's just in  a garden where a hedge has got out of out of hand.

 

Ideally from personal experience it works best with the longest bar on the smallest, lightest saw and when used properly it reduces the arisings to not much more than a mulch but easily rakeable and compact enough to be collected without handling the cuttings.

 

If I remember correctly mine is 14" but if I were buying it again I'd go for the longest one at 20"... in my case I've mostly used it for controlling Goat Willow which is very fast growing and invasive, also Rhodies.. but it's a great tool to have at your disposal when you need to get through a thicket of overgrown shyte, so I just have a dedicated drilled bar with the 'clip and trim' fitted for my smallest lightest saw... it's an ideal tool for stuff that's just too big for a hedge cutter👍 If you don't have a tractor.

 

You searched for clip+and+trim+ - Chainsawbars

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[Dan Maynard]

Reviews mixed on the site though ...

[Macpherson]

1 hour ago, Dan Maynard said:

Reviews mixed on the site though ...

 

Well I like it for the right job, it's a unique thing that lets you use a saw on small stuff that's too big for a normal hedge cutter... it's basically a chainsaw hedge cutter..

 

The biggest and only negative thing I can say about this attachment is that if you fit it to a big saw you're arms very quickly get tired flailing it about due to the weight.

 

Anyway it's as cheap as chips and on the right job it's just the thingie 👍

[scbk]

The clip n trim is ok, a bit light duty, easy to bend the fingers. I would normally use it with the saw attached to the elephants trunk harness.

 

When I get round to it I will fit it to the spare battery saw, so it will be a roughcut hedge cutter with zero fumes