Not always rock n roll and sequoias !

[peatff]

Next door had ivy growing up the garden wall and it was coming over and invading our apple tree. He wanted to get rid of it so I volunteered to help. It was cut off at the bottom and top where it came over then I stood on the top of the wall with a sharpened hoe and separated it from the wall while he pulled it away and it is horrible dirty stuff and full of wildlife.

[Kveldssanger]

Next door had ivy growing up the garden wall and it was coming over and invading our apple tree. He wanted to get rid of it so I volunteered to help. It was cut off at the bottom and top where it came over then I stood on the top of the wall with a sharpened hoe and separated it from the wall while he pulled it away and it is horrible dirty stuff and full of wildlife.

 

Ivy gets a bad name for itself. Yes it can be annoying, but the fact it is full of wildlife is critical - particularly in urban environments where there is sometimes infrequent viable habitat for many insects and birds. Also great as a food source for the bees and birds.

 

Ivy has its place.

[justo7]

Ivy gets a bad name for itself. Yes it can be annoying, but the fact it is full of wildlife is critical - particularly in urban environments where there is sometimes infrequent viable habitat for many insects and birds. Also great as a food source for the bees and birds.

 

Ivy has its place.

 

You are right when you say ivy has its place.

Like mushy peas, wasps, monkey puzzle sap and barbed wire have there place but.........

Sorry to go off track a bit

[Cae Ffynnon]

Sounds like the Ivy had already done the damage if the chimney stack collapsed..

Still, I would like to have observed how the conversation with the client went........

[treequip]

Sounds like the Ivy had already done the damage if the chimney stack collapsed..

Still, I would like to have observed how the conversation with the client went........

 

With chimneys, you don't need much movement to have a big impact and they don't take much moving. A gable wall full of mature ivy is a huge weight hung off the weakest part of a roof. I saw one once where some DIY'ers had used a land rover to peel a gable wall's worth of ivy, they managed to dislodge the stack and a chunk of masonary fell down inside the chimney. The soot caused carnage in the lounge

[Gary Prentice]

One of my own jobs on a stone cottage. Ivy had grown through the lime mortar inside the chimney itself to such an extent that it was the only thing holding it in place. IIRC we took the stack down, stone by stone, to remove the ivy, then the client had to get it re-built.

 

We recently spent two days removing ivy from a victorian built detached garage, with slate roof. The stems were eight inches at ground level and the ivy was six foot above the roof ridge. The client remarked several times that they had intended to remove it before it got out of hand, which would have been at least ten years earlier.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I know of someone who used a small mewp for the 'flap pull', damaged the machine.

 

 

 

Plan B - Tied it to the landrover and pulled the chimney stack down with it:blushing:

 

 

At least they were already in the vehicle to make a sharp exit!

[Gary Prentice]

I suspect the ivy sheet wouldn't have fitted through the gateway:biggrin:

[base]

I would be interested to know how others price Ivy removal.

 

I always go in with a fixed price, but i know sometimes you seem to get more than you bargained for I've never come unstuck pricing ivy jobs but know of one chap that put half a day on some and took 2 days all told.................. its a bit like conifer jobs ...........they go really well or really badly

[Andymacp]

I got lucky, I didn't want the job so priced v high in anticipation it would take a day and a half but got it and was done by lunchtime