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Hedge ungains. Love it. Dad has a petrol long arm beast, but then that's to tackle 100ft of 15ft high, 10ft wide leylandii. Note to future self: don't move anywhere with these and never plant them.
Hedge trimmer - is this decent?
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I've had a couple of Ryobi battery trimmers for a few years and up until getting them it was a real chore, I had the long one 1st to do the top but after using it a couple of times also got the normal trimmer as it's a bit unwieldly for doing the sides and never looked back, me and the missus did most of the hedge one lunchtime break whereas normally it'd take a good couple of hours, had the hedge removed last summer though, managed to sell the normal trimmer but still got the long arm and use it to trim the trees growing over the fence at the bottom.
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I have one of these, I think it cost just under £40 a couple of years ago
Although it is not extendable, with a pair of stepladders it does all the jobs I need round the garden, has a decent bit of cutting power and I think it was great value for the money.
I have an extendable mini chain saw and the issue I found with this when extended was that it was top heavy and could be a bit awkward to manipulate.
I am not sure if the same top heavy issue is present in extendable hedge trimmers?
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Yeah, i had that one too and just recently sold it due to a house move, but it worked great.
If it has been well maintained over the years it is fine and can even look nice like yours. If left unmanaged for a few years it can turn into a nightmare.
My neighbour has huge leylandii which they have never touched and the former owners of my house also never bothered to maintain our side. I have been working on trying to chop some of it back but it is so tall the branches overhang my garden by about 15 - 20 feet!
Here is just a small part at the bottom my garden that I have been working on. It looks a mess and will always look a mess until the day she decides to chop them down, unfortunately she seems to have no interest in doing that
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Soldato
If it has been well maintained over the years it is fine and can even look nice like yours. If left unmanaged for a few years it can turn into a nightmare.
My neighbour has huge leylandii which they have never touched and the former owners of my house also never bothered to maintain our side. I have been working on trying to chop some of it back but it is so tall the branches overhang my garden by about 15 - 20 feet!
Here is just a small part at the bottom my garden that I have been working on. It looks a mess and will always look a mess until the day she decides to chop them down, unfortunately she seems to have no interest in doing that
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How do you find the cutting performance as compared to say mains corded?Arrived a couple of days ago and I just spent five minutes trimming the top of a hedge down and tidying the front off a bit. This would normally take me at least half an hour to do and involve me perching precariously on a small stepladder whilst struggling to reach far back enough at the top.
Literally five minutes trimming did the same job. It'll need more doing but I'll leave that until later in the year, this is enough for the midsummer trim. When I do it again later, I'll take at least another foot off the top and trim the front back a long way as well.
I didn't even need to use the additional extension pole, the trimmer and the handle was enough. Yes, it is significantly heavier than the small trimmer I've used before but the shoulder strap really helps that and even with my weak arm, it's perfectly usable.
Ouch. Done that once fell through a hedge into next doors garden.
The issue is and its the same with most electric strimmers is all the weight is at one end i.e. they're nose heavy, professional kit is balanced with the weight evenly distributed at both ends so much more comfortable and not necessarily any heavier either with the pivot in the middle its no effort other than the lift
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I used it for five minutes to trim a light bush. It’s easily as good as the cheap £40 corded from B&Q. I also used it to cut through quite a woody branch that the cheap corded one couldn’t cut.