Monday 20 November 2017

Goodbye Leylandii - Part Three

It is fortunate there is a public footpath next to my garden as that gave the Green Cuts guys somewhere to drop a lot of the branches though it was still a tight space avoiding next door's fence and greenhouse. Nor was there much of a landing drop space in my garden between the fruit cage and the garden pond:

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This view gives some idea of the task:
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It wasn't until I had a closer look at some of the stills used to make the time-lapse I noticed that to be safe some of the cut branches had been lowered to the ground:

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Some general shots of the guys at work:

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Needless to say there was a veritable mountain of chippings to dispose of.
This truck ferried three loads on the first day alone:

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Plenty of wood too thick for chipping, much of which some neighbours took for burning:

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Originally I was going to have the stump taken down to about four feet in height but when it had reached this stage I decided I liked it as a natural sculpture to take the bareness off that corner of the garden:

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So that was the end of two and a half days hard physical labour on their part.
All that remains is for me to pay the bill when it arrives.

6 comments:

  1. I hope you have an idea of the bill. It's a good job. Better than we would manage but having said that it would have taken us four hours. Ten minutes of which would be starting the 1m chain saw , bloody Stihl's last about two years and need a rebuild. Never the same after a rebuild but that may be my fault. We did get a couple of Chinese copies which lasted a week. I am thinking of rebuilding them properly. I would prefer the powers in charge of the purse strings to get a Honda. Honda make perfect stuff.

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  2. Adrian: Oh yes, I knew in advance what the cost would be. I was given a quotation in writing. The restricted space and the need to take it down in sections governed the time taken. I have no doubt the neighbours are pleased that 2 1/2 days of shredding branches has finally finished! If it had been in the open, like a field, then it would have been a much quicker and easier job.

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  3. Big job done well and big change for your garden.

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  4. Bit changes for your garden andI guess the neighbours have more light in their rooms too.

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  5. Amazing. They did a fantastic job for you - and the neighbours. We had a whole row of Leylandii chopped down but they were nowhere near as big as those. So much light and air after that!

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  6. It looks like a very good job. Some years ago we had to take down a very large gum tree on our place in NSW, We got a quote from one firm who wanted in excess of $3 thousand plus a "cherry picker" to work from - a second quote was from a guy who wanted no extra machinery and simply went up the tree himself with ropes and his chain saw - less than $2 thousand- and did a perfect safe job and clean-up!

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