how many conifers do you work on

[IVECOKID]

I love them , more so when you get inside them and realise that I am way out with the price !!

 

Ste

[Mark Bolam]

I don't do conny topping any more as such.

I'll do it if we can hedge cut the sides, but if they're totally out of control I just refuse. They just get wider and wider till they need felling anyway.

Life's too short.

Still kill loads though. As Steve says they seem to come in waves.

[Joe Newton]

Actually I cant remember the last time I had to do a horrible conifer reduction...im talking about the ones that are 15ft wide, 200ft long and take a couple days. Constant lopper work is a killer on the elbows

 

 

I reckon that's probably because I seem to have had all of them this year.

 

I love it. Working connies efficiently is as much a skill as any other part of tree work.

[silky fox]

Very true Joe...it's close quarter saw work and a lot of branch manipulation and add to that the balance of a cat....it is indeed a skill to do it efficiently otherwise it ends up a horrible woody train wreck that can be a nightmare to Finnish.

[justo7]

Actually I cant remember the last time I had to do a horrible conifer reduction...im talking about the ones that are 15ft wide, 200ft long and take a couple days. Constant lopper work is a killer on the elbows

 

I like using my 150 on these types, faster than silky and loppers. Every time I do a stinking coni hedge I dream of an invention of a hand chainsaw the size of a gomtaro (battery operated or something)

[Steve Bullman]

not a fan of using chainsaws for topping the outer growth, loppers make a far neater job IMO

[tree-fancier123]

be good if you had the strength to hold up the longest chainsaw bar and just be driven along slowly on the roof of a van

[Mortimer Firewood]

The last coni we did was 180 ft 40ft high fire damaged idiot had fire next to garden shed it went up wind blowing through it by the time the fire brigade put it out there was no green left on them.

Got a job to look at tomorrow 5 fire damaged coni don't care what I'm working on as long as Were working.

[testcricket01]

We never work on conifers...... Only 90% or so might be conifers this was the best one last year!

[Mark Bolam]

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