Cutting hedges

[Mark Bolam]

So true.

Everyone knows that to cut the top of a tall hedge you just swivel the head of your long reach 90 deg and voila! It’s done in one pass.

[Conor Wright]

8 hours ago, Haironyourchest said:

I blame the catalogs...happy, attractive people, sculpting their little box hedges... Power tool version of recruitment propaganda.

The reality...

we should do an arbtalk "real life" catalog. Wide hedges, stuck saws, blowers splattering dog shit up the side of the van etc.

The cover will be whoever has the wettest, most miserable looking selfie with a row of leylandii in the background and a recoil spring in one hand.

[doobin]

28 minutes ago, Conor Wright said:

The reality...

we should do an arbtalk "real life" catalog. Wide hedges, stuck saws, blowers splattering dog shit up the side of the van etc.

The cover will be whoever has the wettest, most miserable looking selfie with a row of leylandii in the background and a recoil spring in one hand.

You need a Shepa mancrate and a mini chipper! I love easy hedge reductions like that laurel.

[Conor Wright]

3 hours ago, doobin said:

You need a Shepa mancrate and a mini chipper! I love easy hedge reductions like that laurel.

Both the wee chipper and hinowa mewp are just out of shot on that laurel pic! It didn't warrant bringing the digger and grab. Have a crate on the front loader of the compact tractor too but rarely use it.

I don't mind big "chop em down" jobs so much, it's easier than the "light trim" jobs in many ways.

Pissing rain here today so I'm bagging kindling and I'll probably make as much or more money for far less effort than hedge trimming. 

I'm thinking of getting a mini loader, avant or similar, bigger than a sherpa as I need to be able lift pallets of logs.

Waiting on a demo of a neomach nova x30

https://neomach.com/en/products/nova-x30-en/

[doobin]

5 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

Both the wee chipper and hinowa mewp are just out of shot on that laurel pic! It didn't warrant bringing the digger and grab. Have a crate on the front loader of the compact tractor too but rarely use it.

I don't mind big "chop em down" jobs so much, it's easier than the "light trim" jobs in many ways.

Pissing rain here today so I'm bagging kindling and I'll probably make as much or more money for far less effort than hedge trimming. 

I'm thinking of getting a mini loader, avant or similar, bigger than a sherpa as I need to be able lift pallets of logs.

Waiting on a demo of a neomach nova x30

https://neomach.com/en/products/nova-x30-en/

Really interesting. Never heard of them but look good.

 

What sort of money and who is the dealer?

[maybelateron]

9 hours ago, doobin said:

You need a Shepa mancrate and a mini chipper! I love easy hedge reductions like that laurel.

Oh yes, Laurel is a dear friend of mine compared to the evil troll called conifer.

[Conor Wright]

4 hours ago, doobin said:

Really interesting. Never heard of them but look good.

 

What sort of money and who is the dealer?

Neither did I to be honest. A friend of mine runs a company selling and hiring landscape machinery and he is getting two just to gauge the market, its coming from the same company that sells muratori, I had a muratori hedge cutter and it was of reasonable quality, if that's any guide to the quality of these or not I don't know.

 I'm going to put a few hours on it and report back my thoughts on it. Not that I've a lot to compare it to, but I think I've become a good judge of the build quality of equipment. Sadly its been through trial and error at personal expense.

If I was to buy I'd be trading the compact with fel and getting a dedicated loader and another compact, but without a loader. 

Not sure of the price yet but I've seen them at €33k in germany

 

https://www.landwirt.com/en/used-farm-machinery,3305079,Sonstige-Neomach-NOVA-X30-Radlader-Knicklader-Hoflader.html

 

[doobin]

8 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

Neither did I to be honest. A friend of mine runs a company selling and hiring landscape machinery and he is getting two just to gauge the market, its coming from the same company that sells muratori, I had a muratori hedge cutter and it was of reasonable quality, if that's any guide to the quality of these or not I don't know.

 I'm going to put a few hours on it and report back my thoughts on it. Not that I've a lot to compare it to, but I think I've become a good judge of the build quality of equipment. Sadly its been through trial and error at personal expense.

If I was to buy I'd be trading the compact with fel and getting a dedicated loader and another compact, but without a loader. 

Not sure of the price yet but I've seen them at €33k in germany

 

https://www.landwirt.com/en/used-farm-machinery,3305079,Sonstige-Neomach-NOVA-X30-Radlader-Knicklader-Hoflader.html

 

Muratori are good, pretty sure they make a lot of the flail mowers that Major sell.

 

The loader looks nice but I'd say it needs to be cheaper than the main two brands to sell many. They look to be about equivalent to a Multione 6 series.