Hedges done for another year!

[Rupe]

Top job. Imagine if next year they say "can you take about a foot of the top". Haha.

 

 

There are bits where I want to take a foot off the sides, but I advise a 10 year recovery of that and the answer was NO!

[Big 'Ammer]

Excellent work Rupe!

 

We do something similar every year, my shoulders have taken about a week to recover and I can nearly feel my hands again.

 

What sort of hedge trimmers do you prefer, Rupe?

[Rupe]

I've got all Stihl ones, I use the combitool with short pole hedge trimmer attachment for the tops, then we have another combi tool with long pole hedge trimmer for the top edges of the sides.

 

Most of the sides are done with the longest single sided trimmer they make, we have the old style one not the new ones. Then we have a short single sided trimmer for any little awkward bits.

 

So just four trimmers, 3 blokes for two days for the main section, one is full time clearing up moving sheets etc, and 2 blokes for 2 days for the long straight sections.

[Rupe]

Most important thing IMO is to rake the tops off, then trim again, then rake and one final trim.

[Rupe]

Can anyone suggest any methods of root feeding for these trees? We think that they might be struggling a bit this year,I'm sure weather is a factor but this location always gets rain if there is any about.

 

The Yews are 106 years old, and probably about time they had a bit of nourishment. I know soem compaines have soil injection machinery but not sure if I want get someone else in.

 

Is ther a way I can do it myself, thats reasonably quick??

[Big 'Ammer]

There are bits where I want to take a foot off the sides, but I advise a 10 year recovery of that and the answer was NO!

 

Its surprising how quick they will green up with regular water.

 

We cut some back really hard a few years back and some areas were bare where the estate took out some adjacent large shrubs.

 

The estate put down a trickle hose under most of it and that has worked wonders with recovery.

[Rupe]

I think I'm going to try a small patch next year and see what happens.

[Peter]

Water will do more than feeding imo. Especially with the dry summers we have had these last 2 years. I would be putting a leaky hose irrigation system in if they were my hedges.

[Littletree]

Wow thats really really beautiful work . A real top Job well done be very proud of it . You will keep that customer for ever and ever I bet they just love it.:thumbup:

 

. On Friday I did my first ever bigger hedge it was 15 meters long in a beautiful garden . Up to now I had only ever done tiny hedges so I had my first chance of a longer one it turned out really very well, its a wonderfully feeling when you have finished it and the customer comes out and love what you have done and there face brakes into a big smile it is just the best feeling in the world . Through doing this this one I have now been given by the same customer a full week of work all next week on there different Stites across the south west so am just delighted .

 

 

Littletree:biggrin:

[Samuel]

they look stunning, great job done there