the 'todays job' thread

[Stephen Blair]

Good day yesterday.

[Mick Dempsey]

Some lovely gear and some French fancys!

 

[Mark Bolam]

Bit of a slow burner for a good mate.

Doing a day a week with him helping for a few weeks.

Clearing about 300m of boundary to a 5 acre spread he has bought to open up views.

Overstood hornbeam hedge in front of ditch reduced to low poles.

Ditch full of bramble, blackthorn and utter shite cleared.

Worky Quad has been priceless on this job, taking the chipper in, pulling back leaning hornbeam and ragging tonnes out of the ditch to the landing.

 

 

[daveatdave]

them cakes look a lot better than Mr. Kiplin skinny things. did you take your fishing rod with you?

[5thelement]

Not work job related but after quite a few heavy hints last month, I received a fantastic ’Father’s Day’ present from the kids, a Tasmanian Tree Fern (Dickinsonia antarctica).
So this morning we cleared an unkempt, shaded shrub bed, which was bordered by broken concrete slabs, and replanted, manured, mulched and watered.
We then created a new border with the remains of the stone used in the construction of the bread oven.

I planted one of these ferns back at my old place in Lancashire  30 years ago, it is still going strong in the care of the new owner. 

[kram]

Retopping a leylandii jungle, one of the widest I've been in and a pain to throw the tops. It was very hot up there yesterday! Lots of dead in the middle that was constantly catching on my gear and rope.

There was also a multi stem holly I pruned, horrible things!

 

Then I saw this on the way home. Ladders and a bowsaw!

The second ladder was stacked sideways on the limb. Old guy, working on his own and it would have ended badly!

 

I had to stop and see what he was doing. He wanted it raised above his driveway -  I had the pole stick so it was a 5 min job to clear all the lower stuff I didnt charge but he gave me some beer money.

Edited yesterday at 08:52 by kram

[Mick Dempsey]

Hellish!

 

[Mike Hill]

Craning while it's raining.

Back again tomorrow. 

[Mark Bolam]

Building a wood wall with some conny I stacked (badly) about 3 years ago.

 

If I stacked it nicely in the first place I might have done myself out of some work.

 

 

[AHPP]

58 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

Craning while it's raining.

Back again tomorrow. 

 

Remember to ask matey about crane sizing please.