I call that using initiative. Plasterers these days often use strap on stilts, especially when doing ceilings. I could never get the hang of wooden stilts when I was a kid! These guys walk on them as though they were born wearing them.
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I call that using initiative. Plasterers these days often use strap on stilts, especially when doing ceilings. I could never get the hang of wooden stilts when I was a kid! These guys walk on them as though they were born wearing them.
Banned too, on many sites.
I have three hundred or so feet of quite tall privet hedge and, getting fed up of moving hop - ups or stepladders along to cut the tops, wondering about getting some plastering stilts instead.
A builder mate told me to post the resulting video to You've Been Framed, or Casualty, as that is what he thought of my scheme
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Banned too, on many sites.
I have three hundred or so feet of quite tall privet hedge and, getting fed up of moving hop - ups or stepladders along to cut the tops, wondering about getting some plastering stilts instead.
A builder mate told me to post the resulting video to You've Been Framed, or Casualty, as that is what he thought of my scheme
Cut it down to 3 foot high. Job done.
My curious side still keeps nagging me to buy some, and give it a whirl.
After all, what could possibly go wrong?
My neighbours hedges and bushes are trimmed with pole saws and pole trimmers. Reaches up around three metres I think, plus your height.
The gardeners use petrol engine powered machine, Ryobi or Skil I think they said, and you can put an extension pole, or different working heads, on it. They also had a leaf-blower attachment.
I had been thinking of getting a mains-powered pole saw.
The gardeners use petrol engine powered machine, Ryobi or Skil I think they said, and you can put an extension pole, or different working heads, on it. They also had a leaf-blower attachment.
I had been thinking of getting a mains-powered pole saw.
...... would be the sensible approach. However, like that strange urge to "jump!" when on the edge of a cliff or tall building, part of me is urging me to go for stilts
I've seen joinery shops unloading packs of timber with a counterbalance truck using 3 guys hanging off the back to stop the forklifts back wheels coming off the ground.....it's very common.
Whenever I unloaded big packs of timber, I would reverse back until the forks were just clear of the lorry, then lower the forks -that way if the truck starts to go, it can't go far. The other thing is when loaded to always drive with the forks low. Loads up high are seriously bad -drive over a stone and you could go over.
I've got this one:
https://www.toolstation.com/einhell-900w-long-reach-electric-hedge-trimmer/p28140
Great tool for light use, nicely balanced. It's a diy tool works fine if careful but would break if abused.
I did the MILs hedge, 2.4m high X 2.4m wide -I did all the sides from the ground, then did the top all from one side.
That would be ideal for the ones at the side of my drive except the trees had been aloud to grow so tall that, at a height of about 4 metres and around 3 metres wide, some of the stems are over 1" thick. They are a mixture of at least 3 different types of tree including something my wife calls 'hicksy', (which has bunches of 'grapes' that you can't eat),some nasty spiky thorns and wild brambles which I originally thought were wild roses until they didn't bloom.
I suppose I will have to ask the farmer to come round in the autumn and bring them down to a manageable level with his cherry picker.
Get some of these:
Andy
Andy
Pole saw.
https://www.screwfix.com/c/outdoor-...=managedredirect-_-outdoorgardening-_-polesaw
The angle of the chainsaw is adjustable
A petrol one or a mains one should be more powerful.
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Have you thought about asking around local farmers. There are many variations of hedge trimming (and verge trimming) attachments for tractors and diggers that allow the trimming of hedges quickly, simply and safely. https://www.digbits.co.uk/hedge-cutters.html
It might take a couple of hours to do two or three passes with the tractor/digger and the attachment. (two sides and top)
The biggest job is clearing up afterwards, assuming there is no problem with access.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it is an enclosed back garden, without the access that would be required.
I can do the lot in a few hours with my petrol hedge cutters, but the hedges are very deep, so it is murder on the shoulders to have to try and hold them (and cut through the growth) at arms' length, for hours upon hours......
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