BBC Documentary about leylandii

[sean]

We sent one of the boys up a monster one once.....havent seen or heard of him since:confused1:

[John Shutler]

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gotta love em

 

think we removed that one for a vege patch

[Big J]

Not a Leylandii, but we have a couple of truly monstrous Thuya (positively identified by Robert S - thanks!) outside our house. Reading up on them, they are only supposed to make 18m, and I should imagine that they are both that, and around 3ft DBH.

 

They aren't a bother though - we have a lot of garden and they do keep out firewood lovely and dry.

[Paul Antrobus]

Had to clear up after neighbours twin stem leylandii wiped out there cedar tree leaving it with just a couple of branches on. Ruined half of there hedge which they kept at reasonable height.

[old snake]

We've certainly had lots of dealings with them. I've took a couple of large hedges down through ASBO orders but also had to take some beautiful stand alone specimens down!!

I personally feel that reducing large conifer hedges is also the most dangerous job treesurgeons have to do!! They don't teach aerial rescue from a 15foot wide half dead in the middle with no anchor point rescue on your courses!! Haha.

Here's a typical reduction

[Tom D]

Not a Leylandii, but we have a couple of truly monstrous Thuya (positively identified by Robert S - thanks!) outside our house. Reading up on them, they are only supposed to make 18m, and I should imagine that they are both that, and around 3ft DBH.

 

They aren't a bother though - we have a lot of garden and they do keep out firewood lovely and dry.

 

Thuja plicata can easily do 200 foot! big timber tree in western usa and canada. I have seen them in the uk at 150foot +

[RobArb]

one i did on my own over 3 days last year!

[benedmonds]

At one of our regulars, the neighbours built a bungalo about 1.5m from a nicely maintained 5m hedge, they cut the low branches so it was bare to 3m, then the council to forced my client the hedge owners to reduce it to 4m. Looked stupid, hedge owner in tears, threats of violence, police called statements taken...

[alex_m]

i have been on a two day laylandii reducing extravaganza this week. all due to the customer not touching them for 5 years+

££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££

[Big J]

Thuja plicata can easily do 200 foot! big timber tree in western usa and canada. I have seen them in the uk at 150foot +

 

I stand corrected! Wikipedia lied to me!