Cutting a hedge down without a chain saw

dander

Aries wrote: »

We got ours out by tying a rope around it, and towing it out with a Landrover:rotfl:

I'm sure I've seen something like that on You've Been Framed and the car drives off leaving the bumper attached to the treestump

Owain_Moneysaver

lostinrates wrote: »

How big a stump could a LR cope with? !

They'll pull a couple of tonnes if asked nicely, the instantaneous pull with a snatch rope will be several times greater.

Owain_Moneysaver

Failing that, several crates of lager and a local rugby club.

Or if you have two local rugby clubs, start one at each end and tell them the winners get all the lager.

SailorSam

When we got rid of an old privet hedge we got a chain around it and got a mate with a big wagon to drag it out.

Joly_Roger

& so the rape of nature continues, unabated. All over the country people are taking up lawns, removing plants, extending patios, cutting down trees, concreting over front gardens, taking down hedges...

A "crappy, pointless privet hedge" removed is another kick in the teeth for our declining birdlife population.

Maybe your neighbour's reaction had apoint.

bottlehalffull

Hedges act as dust filters too and soften wind gusts too.

Sometimes they have to go - but presumably the elderly neighbour isn't up to wielding a hedge trimmer to keep it looking nice.

dander

Joly_Roger wrote: »

& so the rape of nature continues, unabated. All over the country people are taking up lawns, removing plants, extending patios, cutting down trees, concreting over front gardens, taking down hedges...

This is absolute bull. Things change. Plants come out, plants go in - that's what gardening is about. I'm taking a crappy bit of hedge out - don't start making accusations that I am "raping nature." As I said before, if you could be bothered to read posts rather than just insult people, this is 6ft of crappy hedge out of a garden with 60ft of perfectly lovely hedges - it's hardly "rape."

I suspect you don't even know much about what bits of the garden do and don't interest your precious birds. If there's one bit of my garden that the birds have absolutely no interest in, it's the scratty, half-dead privet hedge. Even the bird feeder I put next to it was roundly ignored. They're far too busy enjoying the pleasant bits of the garden.