Cutting hedges

[maybelateron]

Many wise words of advice in this thread, all learnt from hard experience. I would add one thought, and that is never, ever, give a fixed cost for any hedge that you have not checked the width of, if you cannot tell this from ground level. A mistake once made and never repeated. It has also been quite helpful in the past to take the customer up in the basket if using a MEWP and let them see for themselves just how wide their "simple hedge cutting" challenge is.

[Dan Maynard]

What about lawns? Not done much myself since a teenager but at least you're standing straight most of the time.

[maybelateron]

12 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

What about lawns? Not done much myself since a teenager but at least you're standing straight most of the time.

Much more body friendly. Biggest downside I can see if people want their grass mowing regularly, which with this July's rainfall can be problematic. Flipside is like when we had a grounds maintenance contract it was money for old rope when their was a drought period.

[Mark Bolam]

We’ve just started a 4 day hedgecutting job.

This is half the rakings at first bait.

 

I want to end my own life.

 

 

[doobin]

8 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

We’ve just started a 4 day hedgecutting job.

This is half the rakings at first bait.

 

I want to end my own life.

 

 

Ideal job for a little brush/rake on the Sherpa and then the bucket grab. 
 

often you can get most of it just with the bucket grab even. 

[Mark Bolam]

I wish.

 

 

[nepia]

Four days?!  **** me Mark, what have you got there?

 

Please answer soon as you can't reply while dangling from a nearby tree by the neck

[doobin]

27 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

I wish.

 

 

Ideal job to sub out to a tractor/hedgecutter combo then!!

[Mark Bolam]

That’s what I keep telling the bloke I’m subbing for!

To be fair, the big hedge at the front is getting flailed, but access to the formal garden side is a nightmare.

 

4 of us normally do it in 3 days, but we lose Macca tomorrow.

He’s off biking round the Highlands because he’s had a gut full of hedgecutting!

[Will C]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

I wish.

 

 

Big brush cutter with a shredder blade will make 95+% of that blow able back into the hedge base, if you sell it right you can charge extra for mulching it 🤣

Edited July 24, 2023 by Will C