Cutting back feet of growth, it's going to look horrible no matter how you cut it. Have fun.Ĭutting a single 1 inch branch is one thing, renovating a massively overgrown hedge is a completely different animal. A hedge like that i can do in a few hours from my past experience, those branches are kind of soft. In your position just rent out a redmax, stihl, echo pole hedge trimmer for a few hours, should be enough to do the rough cut and include the rental price in the bid. Im making my slow transition to battery and electric since im a OG and always loved the gas and power but hey got to get with the times. So this year recently a customer gave me a older electric hedge trimmer (earthworks, extended pole, pivot head) and i just started using it.ngl it seems to work so far but main drawback is the electric cord. I trim hedges of this size a few times a year (eugenia) and 100 ft around 10ft tall blah blah.anyway always used a echo pas 261 with extended hedge trimmer attachmen with pivot head, i dont trim everything all at once, always in segments (one week on this side, next week on top, etc) anyway the trimmer gets heavy after a while so got to rest and take breaks. What species are they and will the hedge even get much taller?Ĭool thread.I'll chime in. So you'd think why not just use loping shears to begin with but it'll still go a lot faster and easier to cut out what you want to and then just snip the tops with lopers.Īnother thing is if you don't need the job maybe convince them to just shape them up and only take like 8" off yearly with even battery trimmer should work, instead of halving them into the woodier part. If you just hack at it with hedge trimmers it'll have all frayed cuts that I think should go over with loping shears to make clean cuts after, same with the pole saw. Ryobi has otherwise gotten really good with power tools over the past ~10 years but the gas power stuff are comically low quality sometimes. And I did email them that I have tons of pro stuff which basically never gives problems if maintained, but their power heads have gone to crud but I stuck with it because I have so many attachments which don't fit better brands, so hopefully they'll improve on that. I just buy another and switch it in the box when it does that lol. Otherwise it's not a terrible pole saw but the ryobi gas power heads are extremely unreliable even new out of the box they kept running into problems like stalling and hard start etc after just only like 10 hours use, and yes I used the correct oil gas ration and stabilize if not using within 25 days. You can get a cheap ryobi power head and pole saw attachment for like $200 total, but with stringy cuttings which that hedge will make they'll often get pulled into the head a jam it, not too hard to pull out but sometimes gotta take the cover off. It'll be the best hedge trimmer you'll ever use. If you could make/buy the same style of tool in whatever brand cordless tool, and you'll trim shrubs even a few times a year, I say do it. This is by far the best tool in the Milwaukee attachment system. I took one of my powerheads, removed the attachment coupler, and mounted the hedge trimmer gearbox directly onto the powerhead. Cordless better than gas, just for noise' sake. The best tool for stuff up to about 8' high, is a short, pole style trimmer. Necessary for taller stuff, but not fun to use. One thing to note - These extended, pole type trimmers are quite heavy and cumbersome. Either bring an arsenal with you, or make sure you can use a charger there. If you go with a cordless tool, you'll need several batteries to get through a job like that. But, if you do, it's probably better/quicker to just use loppers on something that thick. I honestly doubt you'll have many that are that thick in diameter. For one, the tooth spacing is barely larger than that. Two powerheads actually, and all of the attachments.
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