Medium-duty long-reach hedge trimmer recommendation please.

[albion]

They'll take all the trees and put them in a tree museum before you know it, you mark my words.

Museum can be a new branch of the Garden Bridge .

 

[Stephenite]

I've heard @Fnaar likes a neatly trimmed bush.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I'm about to send back my used 3 times and already blunt G-tech. A shame as it was nice to use in all other respects.

 

[srw]

Our garden hedge is protected under the terms of the conservation area. Although it's basically privet and needs keeping trim (it only takes an hour or two three times a year) I wouldn't want to lose it. After 80-odd years it's beginning to show quite a lot of biodiversity - the hedge itself has holly, rowan, cotoneaster and honeysuckle woven into it, mostly self-seeded, and there's a self-seeded oak seedling we're trying not to encourage. It also forms a shelter for lily-of-the-valley, wild garlic and bluebells.

 

[rualexander]

Our local Aldi has these in just now, 240v.
https://www.aldi.co.uk/gardenline-pole-hedge-trimmer/p/094973150332300

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Our garden hedge is protected under the terms of the conservation area. Although it's basically privet and needs keeping trim (it only takes an hour or two three times a year) I wouldn't want to lose it. After 80-odd years it's beginning to show quite a lot of biodiversity - the hedge itself has holly, rowan, cotoneaster and honeysuckle woven into it, mostly self-seeded, and there's a self-seeded oak seedling we're trying not to encourage. It also forms a shelter for lily-of-the-valley, wild garlic and bluebells.

That's interesting. So your hedges have special conditions? I'm interested as hedges normally fall outside of any TPOs. For my own benefit I would love to know more. Sometimes on these forums these posts come accross in the wrong tone so it's important you know this isn't a challenge I'm making. Simply curious. Many thanks.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

That's interesting. So your hedges have special conditions? I'm interested as hedges normally fall outside of any TPOs. For my own benefit I would love to know more. Sometimes on these forums these posts come accross in the wrong tone so it's important you know this isn't a challenge I'm making. Simply curious. Many thanks.

Aren't domestic hedges covered by the Wildlife and Countryside Act?

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Aren't domestic hedges covered by the Wildlife and Countryside Act?

Yes (regardless of ownership) but only if it damages or harms nesting birds. That's a violation of the WCA.

I had to look it up to get the wording right. I am very into wildlife and as it happens, I'm busy on other tasks during nesting so it doesn't affect my clients or the birds. I also clip hedges so the clients and birds get the benefit of any berries or fruit. (Visual and otherwise)

 

[bruce1530]

Screw fix do one for a lot less..i use it for work..ok but heavy ,Titan

I bought one of those. Worked well - for a week, then died.

Got a replacement, which I used for a few weeks, then put away for the winter
This spring, the fuel hoses had completely perished.

 

[Dayvo]

Long-reaching, you say:

 

[srw]

That's interesting. So your hedges have special conditions? I'm interested as hedges normally fall outside of any TPOs. For my own benefit I would love to know more. Sometimes on these forums these posts come accross in the wrong tone so it's important you know this isn't a challenge I'm making. Simply curious. Many thanks.

The council's new website is missing the key information, but my memory is that the hedge is marked as one that should be maintained as a hedge, additional to the standard TPO on all trees. (We had to apply for permission to remove some ratty Leylandii in the back garden). Quite how much power the council has to enforce the "should" I don't know. It's a rare survivor of what once have been a uniform hedge in front of uniform houses, even though ours is one of the few that isn't a standard design semi.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

The council's new website is missing the key information, but my memory is that the hedge is marked as one that should be maintained as a hedge, additional to the standard TPO on all trees. (We had to apply for permission to remove some ratty Leylandii in the back garden). Quite how much power the council has to enforce the "should" I don't know. It's a rare survivor of what once have been a uniform hedge in front of uniform houses, even though ours is one of the few that isn't a standard design semi.

Thank you.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I bought one of those. Worked well - for a week, then died.

Got a replacement, which I used for a few weeks, then put away for the winter
This spring, the fuel hoses had completely perished.

Seems to me that lots of modern garden kit isn't winterised or suited to being stored in the shed during the winter.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

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The council's new website is missing the key information, but my memory is that the hedge is marked as one that should be maintained as a hedge, additional to the standard TPO on all trees. (We had to apply for permission to remove some ratty Leylandii in the back garden). Quite how much power the council has to enforce the "should" I don't know. It's a rare survivor of what once have been a uniform hedge in front of uniform houses, even though ours is one of the few that isn't a standard design semi.

At the merest whiff of a conservation area being thought about all our neighbours got uPVC double glazing installed, pronto.