the 'todays job' thread

[Rich Rule]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

Doddle. My arms are like pipe cleaners.

 

Worth throwlining above it or just grit your teeth, clench your back and and flip?

Should have said a grown man’s arms and not the noodles you’re carrying 🤪

[Rich Rule]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

Doddle. My arms are like pipe cleaners.

 

Worth throwlining above it or just grit your teeth, clench your back and and flip?

The latter.  If I had throw lined it I would still have had to climb through the curtains or I would have been a metre away from the stem.

[woody paul]

59 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Quel cauchemar !

Have cut it for the last 20 years think I would have learnt by now, but always do a too good of a job. 

It one hedge I would love to ground level. 

[Dan Maynard]

"You seem to have built an enormous raised bed across the middle of the garden since I quoted"

"Ah yes. Will that be in your way then?"

 

I didn't know what to say really, went for "well at least its not a greenhouse ". Rather than "FFS, we'll just rig everything into the postage stamp size drop zone we have left"

 

 

[peds]

If only they hadn't have filled it with compost already, you could have stuffed it for them hugelkulture-style as you go. 

[Mark Bolam]

I trust you applied TWAT tax at 50% Dan?

[John Shutler]

Another mixed bag of a week

 

moving kit back from a little clearance job on a building site

 

taking out a pretty much dead mac with the roto

 

moving an 8m tall 5 tonne taxodium 

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

All the toys out today cutting back these truly hideous conifers beside my mates garden.

 

Thanks @Will C for the tip about ripping stokboard into 3 and securing them with 6 inch nails.

Worked a treat.

 

4 stupid loads of chip out, shifting timber tomorrow, then back Monday.

 

 

[bigtreedon]

Few snips off the top 

   

 

Edited October 18, 2024 by bigtreedon

[bigtreedon]