For all you ivy lovers out there!

[RobRainford]

Here is a job i did on wednesday. Few conifers, a mulberry(? i think) to thin out and clean up and ivy and clematis which was covering a plum tree. It was a nightmare. Makes me hate ivy so much more.

 

i know you are so envious, the garden was so small i couldnt take proper pictures, i was stood as far back as i could when i took them.

[RobArb]

looks like a jungle not a garden!! don't envy you one bit, know what them jobs are like as we seem to get a few!

Edited October 17, 2010 by RobArb
my spelling was atrocious!

[Hodge]

hope you charged em plenty Rob:biggrin:

[Matthew Arnold]

It looks like my bosses garden when he first moved in. We spent about a week with chainsaws and brushcutters clearing it out. He did have a big Eucalyptus in the far corner of the garden but was we were pulling brambles out of the crown. No exageration half of the tree came towards us at a rate of knots. No where to run as it filled his garden. That was a difficult one to explain to the family why i had what looked like whip marks down my back from the branches. the rest of the tree was swiftly felled as the base was moving a massive amount and the roots had breached a fairly major water main that the water board worked on the next day. Had as massive fire though and got beers at the end of the day so it wasnt all bad.

[Ian Flatters]

Looks likesome russian vine in there too. Don't envy you one bit on that one. Good to see you got stuck into it tho.

[RobRainford]

I did charge them plenty indeed. Didn't expect to be there for 9 hours though!

 

I could stand on the plums and I just felled pieces taking most of the wall of greenery with it!

[jpbeaver]

i very rarely get jobs like that anymore, think my prices scare customers off. good on you for taking it on though rob.

[RobRainford]

It was for a friend so it's one of those type of jobs. "I know a guy who can do it"

 

Some of the plum branches were very dead. As I was putting the back cut in and it was being pulled it just snapped off. No hinge or holding wood left. Snapped clean across the grain!

[detritus21]

I've just been and priced one similar to strip the front of a house of virginia creeper and ivy. The client couldn't understand why my price was so high. I hate ivy.

[RobRainford]

I've just been and priced one similar to strip the front of a house of virginia creeper and ivy. The client couldn't understand why my price was so high. I hate ivy.

 

 

was that by any chance in parbold? seeing as you are basid in wigan, it seems like we may have both been to the same place!