the 'todays job' thread

[Peter 1955]

16 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Agreed Mark.

But dues must be paid, mortgages must be repaid, weeks have to be filled and bloody awful hedges must be trimmed.

And the worse they look, making the householder absolutely certain that it's beyond them, the more we are seen as saviours, worthy of a seemly recompense for our efforts. If it was easy, they'd do it themselves. 

[kram]

Quite enjoyed it to be honest. Thick leather gloves really helped for the brash dragging cleanup. Should have worn sleeves or a jumper but was too hot. I have thorns in the outsides of my elbows!

More experience on a ladder which I'm not too good at, and got to properly use my newish hedge trimmers and pole chainsaw.

 

However the hedge does look awful, holes everywhere, ivy has taken over and the old hedge has long rotted away in places. Best you can do with that..

[Peter 1955]

19 minutes ago, kram said:

 

More experience on a ladder which I'm not too good at, and got to properly use my newish hedge trimmers and pole chainsaw.

 

I've had every type of ladder known to mankind, but I must say the three legged Henchman type are the doggie's dangly bits. We recently posted piccies of a Leylandii hedge that we massacred, and it was one of those jobs which turned out to be much less of a chore than expected. Don't own a chipper, so carted almost all of the rubbish away. 

[Mark Bolam]

10 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Agreed Mark.

But dues must be paid, mortgages must be repaid, weeks have to be filled and bloody awful hedges must be trimmed.

There is truth in that.

 

Double bubble it is then!

[Stephen Blair]

A few days doing Ash Dieback, my first ones.  Crispy is how I’d describe them.  Certainly like cutting butter even when there isn’t rot. 

[Stephen Blair]

A day with the grapple

[Mick Dempsey]

Not me, but my nephew in Yorkshire.

Some of you may remember he spent a year out here in France working for me. 
He runs his own gig over there now. 
He sent me pictures of this hedge he’s just finished, thought it merited posting on this thread. 

[John Shutler]

he made a nice job on that hedge mick.

any ideas what sort of money he had on it?

 

I've turned up to price a few jobs like that and ended up convincing them to fell instead 

[Mick Dempsey]

4 minutes ago, John Shutler said:

he made a nice job on that hedge mick.

any ideas what sort of money he had on it?

 

I've turned up to price a few jobs like that and ended up convincing them to fell instead 

I know, but not my place to say.

He did ok is my understanding. 

[John Shutler]

2 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I know, but not my place to say.

He did ok is my understanding. 

fair enough. Ive got an idea of what id charge and reckon I could fell it for the same sort of money as it would cost to prune it