Cutting a hedge top with a chainsaw

[Le Sanglier]

Come on....we are clearly talking about the finer growth here. Obviously a chainsaw is used for the main stems. Loppers or hedgetrimmer after the thick stems are dealt with

 

Yeah obviously:confused1:

You can use a saw if the thickness of the finer growth can make a hedge cutter struggle, then finish it with the cutter.

(I'm guessing we're talking about leylandii)

[Gav_A]

Have reduced many a 16ft privet down to 4ft with a chainsaw. Always looks horrible, gets the job done though.

[oldwoodcutter]

Take the centre out, leaving the outer foliage, which is then trimmed with hedge cutters.

 

Yep,spot on there Dave.

[Stephen Blair]

Never. I hate seeing chainsaws used to cut hedges. It leaves a scruffy and very unprofessional looking finish

 

 

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Only if your not very good at it!

[Breezeblock]

550 with the finger bar off a ryjobi hedge trimmer bolted on to the side of a 15" bar works a treat for doing beech hedging

[Steve Bullman]

Only if your not very good at it!

 

Always happy to be proved wrong

[County 764]

You'd need one hell of a hedge trimmer to cut through stuff 3-4 inch thick

[Stephen Blair]

You'd need one hell of a hedge trimmer to cut through stuff 3-4 inch thick

 

It's called someone else's from my experience!!

[Stephen Blair]

Always happy to be proved wrong

 

No your not, you'd be raging lol!!

[DN22 Gardening]

Used our 395xpg with a 36" bar to lower a mixed Hawthorne, Holly, Ivy riddled hedge earlier this year.

Approx 150' long, dropped from 10' to 6', job done on a day.

Like to see it done with loppers n trimmers

 

 

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