Hedging jobs pay well for a professional because quite often the cleanup is half the work. There’s a lot to it. Imagine cleaning up after trimming a 100m hedge. That’s a big job. Using a hedge trimmer is fun and you do have to pinch yourself at times that you’re getting paid to use it. For the cleanup everyone has their preferred method. I usually keep a wheel barrow beneath the hedge & when I’m finished cutting I rake everything up in conjunction with a leaf blower as well and put all the clippings into the wheel barrow load after load and empty it into my trailer. The drop sheet method is a good one too. People use what works for them.
Just keep in mind that you might want to trim it narrower at the top and wider at the bottom so that the lower branches get enough light to keep leaves. If you trim the tops wide enough to shade out the bottom you will end up with naked branches holding up a leafy canopy! Think miniature tree form. Unless that’s what you’re after. You can always limb up an overgrown shrub to give it a miniature tree form and so you can plant beneath it.
I've used an electric B & D trimmer for years. It's been a workhorse but I no longer am, and wanted to make my job easier. ru-vid.comUgkx_rBCFuDW1zD6blTGhLkvAkxU657uR_lG Around the corners, the small side yard etc. was a pain to run the cord out to, so I bought this thinking I'd use it for touch-ups and hard to reach places. Well, I haven't used the corded one since!This is so light weight and so much easier. It has all the power I need because I start wearing down after about 20 minutes and I haven't run out of battery yet. It takes about two hours to charge. I've used it about twice a week for a month and still have line left too. My favorite feature is the blade inside the shield that keeps the line trim to where I don't even have to think about it. You can see from my pic that it's been heavily used and I probably should clean it more often. Very happy with it.
As an experienced landscaper the only thing I see here is that maybe the customer wanted the bushes below the windows it was overgrown so this bush had to be hacked I’m not a fan of hacking bushes like this but it’s the only thing that comes to mind as to why it was cut so low
Not everyone is just lazy...some people don't know how to do what he did and some people are elderly or disabled. Not everyone has a trimmer like that, and some people work very hard at their job and don't want to spend their whole weekend doing that stuff.
I work 10 to 12 hours every day, then I have to take care of my pool every day so on the weekends I want to relax and enjoy some free time for this reason I hire a landscaping guy.... Also, I want to support other people's businesses.
What kind of shrub was that? I need to cut mind right in half. Will it be okay to do this? Do you have a "way after" picture of the shrubs when they came back from the cut?
wow... big job..... but I noticed lots of "dead" in those hedges when you were done with the cut. I'd think you have to cut more into the dead to find life in the stems so it grows out? Just wondering.... Let me know. Thank you!
Omg! I so feel you. Just moved into a house we attempted to pull out 3 overgrown and dying hollies! I met my match...think they just about physically did me in. I wish I had just left them 🙄
i’d recommend you use the green dumpster bags instead of tarps they can hold more, are thicker, and you don’t have to worry about stuff falling out cause it’s a bag and you can use the handles to tie the bag shut
@@HandyGuy2016 Not true at all some of that hedge will never come back, and its really susceptible to drought now so you'll have to water- John, Guardian Angel Tree Service
I hen I saw you go next door and blow the driveway I knew you was genuine that’s me all day not going to do the hair. Their job is certainly not going to blow it in the neighbors yard or in the street you clean up well and I think that means more than anything its presentation.
Will they eventually fill out again? They look pretty ugly like this, just a bunch of sticks, mostly. I recognize they absolutely had to be cut back, but if this is what they'll look like forever now, I'd say just cut them out and start over.
Hey man I’m trying to cut my time down because time=money with landscaping, what do you do with the tarps and the debris that are on them once you are finished?
Yeah it still doesn't look good. The bushes doesn't look healthy. It looks like it needs to be cut all the way down and let it start to grow again but not high this time.
Our professional landscape company asked today if we are ok with them using hedge trimmers to cut back overgrown rhododendrons at our condos.. is this even safe for the Rhodies?
Don't use hedge trimmers on anything except a hedge. That type of pruning destroys the structure of shrubs. Prune with hand pruners, branch by branch, always cutting back to a branch or bud. Use a saw on big branches, if necessary.
@@HandyGuy2016 hummm... how doni get a ceder grow on the inside after a trim? It over grew so I had to trim it back significantly to where it was brown on the inside. Now it's not filling out those gaps. 😒
I set up like that when i cut my hedges. Believe it or not we hav hedges in Az. See how you practice safety for the job, ear muffs, face covering and attire. 👍🏜
