Hedge trimming

[Rupe]

I actually like these hedges. I've stopped doing a lot of hedges as they want cheaper and cheaper prices, and if the clear up is a pain then cheap price is no good. The clear up on this one is easy peasy, except for the area you can see with small box hedges under the main hedge. The rest of it is just grass so you can put sheets along and then take the stuff away. All the clippings 2800kgs last year, go to make the drug for breast cancer.

 

The picture shows the main part which takes two days (three men per day) then there are two more large yew sections and loads of box hedges.

 

Then quarter of a mile of beech, some laurel and it goes on and on. Also lots of tree work each year at this place which is one of my favorite sites although we've not had a cup of tea offered in the 6 or 7 years I've worked there!!

[Rob D]

I know that gravel Stevie and I know after I have done a hedge and finished blowing there is 10% gravel less on the drive than when I got there!!

 

It's when you have the plum slate that you really need to worry - not a needle of conifer, not a leaf, not a grain of sawdust must be left to mar that lovely surface!

[Rob D]

 

Then quarter of a mile of beech, some laurel and it goes on and on. Also lots of tree work each year at this place which is one of my favorite sites although we've not had a cup of tea offered in the 6 or 7 years I've worked there!!

 

Yeh but the tea would be cold by the time they'd walked the quarter mile out to you

[Rupe]

Stevie, the no blower in the world is going to blow it to the neighbours, they are miles away! ALso if you blow too hard it just comes out the other side of the hedge. We collect all the trimmings from the sides on sheets and then rake up wahtever comes off the top, I rake over the top once after the first cut and then trim again and the little bits stay there or fall through.

 

I don't mind about the tea. I only see the owner once or twice a year anyway, they live in the house in london most of the time or abroad. I saw her at the weekend though and we went to look at some future work in the garden and we went in the car as it was too far to walk!

[Rupe]

Heres some more.

 

There is two sections of yew like the first pic, one on each side of the front lawn, then there are a total of ten big box hedges with the domes on and 8 smaller ones. Clear up here is a pain! I've never cut the box hedges, in the last 6 years I always seem to have office stuff to that day! All I do is the tops of the yews. Thank god for ipods!

[Ian Leach]

Spot on job there Rupe:cool1: I find hedge trimming boring (use to do shite loads tho) thats why i take my mp3 player, but it brings in the money.

[Rupe]

It brings in the money if the clear up is quick. A 300 quid job is still a 300 quid job when there is loads of shrubs etc in the way, you can't seem to charge extra for clear up time, I like doing these ones in the pics but that about it.

[Stephen Blair]

beautiful job rupe, stunning finish mate

[old snake]

Very nice finish on those Rupe but that just looks like my version of hell! haha

[David oakman]

I was going to ask about the clippings rupe, we also send our clippings to the lab but i did not know what they used it for. Great job and wow lovely hedges:thumbup: