Cleared away all the bits and shredded the dry stuff. [img] Then we spent the rest of the day trying to remove the first stump. Finally got it...
Cleared off the cut down stuff this morning. The pile still there is stuff to be shredded. [IMG] Cut down the top of the first tree and the...
Cut down the lowest branches on one of the next conifer hedge. Took some doing too as they were all entangled. Managed 4 trips to the re-cycling....
All the conifer stuff has now been taken to the tip. Next job is to remove the next stretch of hedge.
4 more trips to the re-cycling place today. With any luck we should be able to complete the job tomorrow. Had to stop as the queue to get back...
There is now a bit less conifer by the gate. We managed to cut up the trunks and put the logs out of the way behind the Summer House. Neighbours...
Concrete posts, concrete base boards topped by 5 foot wooden fencing. Not sure what kind that will be until we get prices. Probably the cheapest...
The conifer hedge is now removed. [img] The last stumps were taken out today. All bar one came out easily, there is always one is there not? It...
Generally speaking Conifers have fibrous roots rather than a long tap root. All I have done so far is to dig round the tree base, expose the...
Made a start on removing the conifer hedge. The stumps are much easier to move if I leave a good section of the trunk in place to use as a lever....
She will have to store the conifer wood for a couple of years before using it. The resin it releases can block the chimney. I think the amount of...
Even better is that she wants all the logs from the next stretch of conifer as well. I may have to cut that up for her myself though.
The neighbours who want the wood from the hedges came this afternoon and spent hours chain sawing the trunks into fire size lengths. Saved me a...
If we ever manage it, there is also a Leylandii hedge at the top of the garden which we would prefer to take out. Now that would be fun, it is...
Spent the day taking the conifer bits to the re-cycling place. Too much to shred and nowhere left to store them in any case. Worse thing is that...
Did some more conifer removing. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] All cut back now. Stumps will need removing and the cut material need shredding. [IMG] We have...
It will be when we have a fence put up instead of the conifers. Over the next few days I hope to go down the full length of it and cut it back...
A little bit of hedge removal. This morning it looked like this. [img] Now it looks like this. [img] Still got to dig out the stumps and shred the...
If it was Britain I would say it was Acanthus mollis,but don't know if that is grown in Melbourne.
They definitely had a thing about conifers. We have removed a large number of them. They were fashionable in the 1960's when the bungalow was...
