Thread: O dear

I recently had to take down a 5m high tree that was growing up hard against a fibre cement side fence and had cracked two of the sheets part way thru. Neighbours dining room window was 750 mm away from the fence on one side and a bedroom window was 1.25m away on our side. I started out with 3m high ladder and a Makita reciprocating saw, that cut through all the branches smaller than ~4" in about 10 minutes without touching either of the windows. There's no way I would have operated a chainsaw at that height on a ladder. This finally left a trunk about 3m high and about 250 mm at the base which I lopped half way and then at the base with a 72cc chainsaw. One of the easiest pruning jobs ever.

The other recent pruning job was about 10m of vines that every year grow across from the neighbours 4m high trellis up into the ceiling cavity of our house.
In the past this has been a bugger of job taking 2 x half days with a set of pruning shears and a long ladder.
The space to work in only 750 mm wide plus there's vine hanged into that space.
Typically I'd climb the ladder, cut one or two vine runners and then pull on the cut vines showering myself with fragments of dead vine.
The last couple of years I seem to have become allergic to the dust from the dead parts of this plant which is one reason I could only work at it for half a day at a time.
After 3 hours my eyes and nose would be running and skin itching etc so I had to stop.
Because I had to move the ladder every couple of feet to get at the vines I was going up and down the ladder like a bloody yoyo which didn’t help

This year I was armed with my new 600mm long blade battery powered Stihl hedge trimmers.
These things are vicious and can cut 1” thick stuff without any problems.
The whole cutting down part took me less than 45 minutes.
There was much less dust so only mild allergy effects were experienced.
The long blade on the trimmer cuts wide swath on one go so less ladder moves and it enabled me to reach right over the neighbours fence and prune it well away from the fence line
It's good when a piece of kit does the business.

Next week I be tackling the dreaded Bougainvillaea over the shed

Originally Posted by crowie

I like it.......
And if I had the spare coin, I'd be tempted....

You are a toy-maker aren't you Crowie?

Originally Posted by BobL

I recently had to take down a 5m high tree that was growing up hard against a fibre cement side fence and had cracked two of the sheets part way thru. Neighbours dining room window was 750 mm away from the fence on one side and a bedroom window was 1.25m away on our side. I started out with 3m high ladder and a Makita reciprocating saw, that cut through all the branches smaller than ~4" in about 10 minutes without touching either of the windows. There's no way I would have operated a chainsaw at that height on a ladder. This finally left a trunk about 3m high and about 250 mm at the base which I lopped half way and then at the base with a 72cc chainsaw. One of the easiest pruning jobs ever.

The other recent pruning job was about 10m of vines that every year grow across from the neighbours 4m high trellis up into the ceiling cavity of our house.
In the past this has been a bugger of job taking 2 x half days with a set of pruning shears and a long ladder.
The space to work in only 750 mm wide plus there's vine hanged into that space.
Typically I'd climb the ladder, cut one or two vine runners and then pull on the cut vines showering myself with fragments of dead vine.
The last couple of years I seem to have become allergic to the dust from the dead parts of this plant which is one reason I could only work at it for half a day at a time.
After 3 hours my eyes and nose would be running and skin itching etc so I had to stop.
Because I had to move the ladder every couple of feet to get at the vines I was going up and down the ladder like a bloody yoyo which didn’t help

This year I was armed with my new 600mm long blade battery powered Stihl hedge trimmers.
These things are vicious and can cut 1” thick stuff without any problems.
The whole cutting down part took me less than 45 minutes.
There was much less dust so only mild allergy effects were experienced.
The long blade on the trimmer cuts wide swath on one go so less ladder moves and it enabled me to reach right over the neighbours fence and prune it well away from the fence line
It's good when a piece of kit does the business.

Next week I be tackling the dreaded Bougainvillaea over the shed

Imagine how safe it would be with one of these little fellas, may take a while though.....[emoji848]

Originally Posted by doug3030

You are a toy-maker aren't you Crowie?

What other sort of woodworker is there, especially one that brings smiles to a child's face; nothing does it like a hand made wooden toy!!!!

Great, we can put it in the cabinet with the rotozip and the dual drill.

Originally Posted by crowie

What other sort of woodworker is there, especially one that brings smiles to a child's face; nothing does it like a hand made wooden toy!!!!

Or money cash coins.
There's no age barrier anymore with that.
I'm sure of seen 6 month olds with eftpos machines.

Saw this on you tube last week where a bloke in USA pimped his with a nitro powered model engine, man it was a mean cutting machine....

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Mrs P needs Mr P to get a battery operated Recipro saw with a 3 tpi blade. Now THAT'S a garden saw.

Unless of course she only wants to trim the Bonsai's....

It's not much fun getting old and as stupid as it sounds this saw will make things easier pruning trees and shrubs. I am banned from the garden as I have this theory, if it is green and doesn't move it gets chopped down or pulled out.

I want one of those just for opening those sealed hard plastic packages that seem to be everywhere these days
Man I hate those packages
Last time I got so frustrated I put it under the mitre saw. Plastic shrapnel everywhere.

How much of the neighbor's vines do you own? Here, it's anything on my side of the fence, nothing on their side of my fence.

I've got grape vines to prune. A thousand shoots 3+M long. The house vines that shade the west wall are 3+m tall x 12+m long. Just 2 vines from 2001.
Expect to trim 100+ pieces and start some new vines to sell. That's one way to get rid of the trash.

Originally Posted by Robson Valley

How much of the neighbor's vines do you own? Here, it's anything on my side of the fence, nothing on their side of my fence..

Perhaps I should explain a little more. We live on a long narrow block about 10m wide and 60 m long. Down one side of our house the 30m long gap between the house and the fence is 750mm wide at soil level, and because that fence leans over towards our side its about 700mm from the house at the top of the fence. There's no access to the gap from the front of the block as it is sealed up with a 2m high fence. The fence alongside the house is 1.8m high for about 20m and then there's a 750mm drop in the ground level so the fence along that part is 2.55m tall. The gap is not wide enough for the base of my 3m high ladder so I have lean it either up against the lining fence or up against a house which means a steep angle of use. In short access is awkward and limited and working in that space is a PITA. The only things that go up that part of our property or a regular basis are our dogs when they think there might be something to bark at up there. So I go up there only when the neighbours vines have got out of hand and they need a prune.

To add to the the complication the previous neighbour from some 15 years ago didn't like the 6ft high corrugated painted asbestos fence (that would have been installed in the early 1970s) and wanted us to put up a new fence. They wanted a 3m high brick fence that was going to back then cost $25000 - I said we would pay for have the price of a sheet metal or fibre cement fence so it came to naught. However they did install a wooden trellis fence 4m high immediately on the inside of their fence and grew various vines that have always grown through the trellis and high up over the trellis into our property. This means I have to get up to over 4m high to cut some of the vines. So when I say I reach into the neigbour's year all I really doing is pruning the long vines high above the tops of his trellis, which otherwise will in weeks be over on our side and for which he is thankful because he doesn't have to get up and prune it.

Thanks. You have a living nightmare there.
I can't imagine a choice unless those vines suffered "sudden impact necrosis."

All my neighbors have very deep pockets and extremely short arms.
Their fences rotted and they wouldn't even spring for 1/2 for a new fence with my labor added.

I had the fence post lines laser surveyed to sit 10cm inside the surveyed property line.
Used 1.5" stucco wire mesh to reduce the wind loading in winter storms.
Next, I planted a grape vine between each pair of posts.
The local wild deer eat the vines outside my fence so I keep the remaining grape crop all to myself.

Originally Posted by Robson Valley

Thanks. You have a living nightmare there.
I can't imagine a choice unless those vines suffered "sudden impact necrosis."

That is a distinct possibility!

One more thing, the neighbour also has a lemon tree on the fence line. To get some light the thing is now some 5+ m tall and branches extend across the "gap" over our roof. Unlike the vines it wasn't getting into the roof space and making a mess so I get it alone until I realised it was dropping lemons on the roof which were rolling down into the gutter and corroding the galv gutters!

Originally Posted by Simplicity

I really should make this a regular, but does society really need this,and I will make an exception to people with physical elements.

Full able people it's called a hand saw, you use arm muscles to push and pull it.

And it does what the gimmick will, but uses no battery or electricity or nuclear power.
It does require using brain power tho.
O DEAR
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dehTF6wg27k

Cheers Matt.

A fool and their money are soon parted...[emoji6]

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