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Hi Pete, just seen your message.
Ok, i went timberwolf 13g. Its Friggin great for staight and straightish branches at a great price, with loads of em second hand, cant fault it. It says 3" but i abuse the living daylights out of it, and it will take up to approx 5 though 3 is about right for hardwood, 5 is about the diameter of the hole, albeit you have to pull it back a bit.
I rented out a jo beau m300 and was really disappointed in the diameter. When that says 3" it really does mean it because it doesnt have a flywheel to speak of, and when it got jammed up it was a bitch to sort out. Have to say it was very beaten up when i got it though.
If i was going to get another better one id check out the greenmech and m500 if i wanted it to do branches, or an eliet prof with optional feed roller (I havent seen one in action mind) if it was for hedge trimmings. guys at timberwolf factory were speaking highly of jo beau so i could have had an internally damaged one.
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Hi D-t-S - saw your post about green waste shredders, its difficult to pin these blokes down isn't it. I'm maintenance - don't take down trees - have loads of hedge/shrub prunings and branches up to let's say 3", the bigger ones we'll burn - what chip/shredder did you settle on. The boys here seem to be saying Jo-Beau (a bit over our budget and would have to be the M200) but can it really do wriggly shrub prunings do you know? nice if it could. - With what we could afford I'd got it down to just the Eliet Major - How did you get on, what did you get and is there anything you could advise me on now? Thanks D-t-S - hope you're getting on ok. - Pete (juno)
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Hi - I joined cuz I (wanted to see the pics, but also) needed to find out about a decent machine that will shred hedge and wriggly shrub prunings We, that's me and the missus, (steady...) just do garden maintenance now - we have taken down the odd tree that was in the way, but she didn't really like being on the end of the rope pulling in her direction – but otherwise we are professional, have year round contracts etc and folk seem to like the idea - in our type of work – of the 'man and wife' set-up and it does save me a lot of the twaddle. (Just found out the other day she'd won a shot put competition when she worked for customs! - but she's cute, believe me.) I read on here somewhere of * landscapers damaging roots around the bottom of trees – I wouldn't be surprised, I would expect there to be many more duff landscapers about (second rate work less obvious?) than there are duff tree men – and there's plenty of those – One thing that most saddens me is butchered trees, you don't have to have passed tree surgeon exams to recognise them (especially the Birch) and that's what's so great about the internet and these forums - learning from and helping each other. I've read loads on here and seen some of you blokes' videos – I'm in awe - and there was me thinking you guys ****** ** ****** ******** and hung around in bars :-) Trees have always been with us and they're part of us - Alex Shigo was a passion of mine and if I had my time over I think I might be working more with trees
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Hi L&L - seen your posts, so may I please ask you a question about shredding. I'm maintenance - don't take down trees - have loads of hedge/shrub prunings and branches up to say 3", the bigger ones we'll burn - what chip/shredder did you settle on. The boys here seem to be saying Jo-Beau (a bit over our budget and would have to be the M200) but can it really do wriggly shrub prunings do you know? - With what we could afford I'd got it down to the Eliet Major or the Globe Forester - how did you get on, what did you get and is there anything you could advise me on now? Thanks L&L - hope you're getting on ok. - Pete (juno)
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"You'll be looking at a whole load of brown dead conifer where it has been competing with the hedge" Good point Tom, thanks – I hadn't thought of that. So if I were to do the top as you say this winter, and if customer's willing to wait – (they want the best for its health) would it still be better, ideally, to wait another year to do the front, which is coming out a good 6' from the trunks and give a good feed and mulch next spring? I think I've read somewhere that beech make few dormant buds lower down the branch (?) How much do you think it would be safe to cut off the front?
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Hi, --- has anyone much experience with reducing overgrown Beech hedges, and what I could do with this one? - It had been kept at about 6' and the young couple now looking after it would like it back if possible. Most books say – cut top first year, one side the following year and t'other the next, preferably with a good feed and mulch the year before you start. I'm not so sure - I did a well kept but gotten too wide Beech three years ago – cut back one side maybe 15” - and its only now really filling in. And the trouble with this very overgrown one is that there's little growth on the back side as it faces a dark conifer wood Sorry about poor pictures – The Beech is over 20 foot. Second pic is taken from behind.
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how about this [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jfqrWhjVf0&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Scars - Horrorshow (Horrorshow b/w Adultery 7")[/ame] "The one who set the planets' tilt, who painted earth with oceans, that same one became a man, was one of us. And this is what we did to him."
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This is the only place I can find that I think sells the Katanaboy in the UK, --- I have a Zubat but I'd sure like to try this out. "The one who set the planets' tilt, who painted earth with oceans, that same one became a man, was one of us. And this is what we did to him."
