I doubt that carbon fibre would be up to the task. Perhaps the son of the local blacksmith, who is clever in the ways of ironwork or damascus steel, could save the day?Originally Posted by Paul in NZ
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I doubt that carbon fibre would be up to the task. Perhaps the son of the local blacksmith, who is clever in the ways of ironwork or damascus steel, could save the day?
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Forum whore
Sort of Lord of the Hedgers'? deal? A mighty set of blades forged in the fires of Mount Hutt....
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Sounds perfect.
Just so long as they don't need to go on a journey to deposit a pulley-wheel into White Island or anything.
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
one placenta
...cheers Hitcher...your ramblings have inspired my wife to wind me up about aforementioned privet hedge...guess what the plan for me is today...
Deus ex ukulele
An excellent plan! I hate privet. It should be declared a noxious weed. If people are allergic to nothing else, they'll be allergic to privet. It's good as a hedge when young but doesn't regenerate new wood from old. It's neither use nor ornament. Burn it!
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
one placenta
...totally agree, but being boss round here is a pure figment of my overactive imagination...
Ta
Hitcher, you shall forever be known, as fuckin OLD!
Coal Burning XV Rider!
He is, isn't he?
LOL poor ol ellipsis, that pants wearing stuff really gets ya down on weekends.
Awesome post Hitcher, enjoyed the reminiscing and the pics.
My rellies down in Featherston all had a half dozen or so Bren Gun Carriers scattered about their farms just for you know, special, stuff, slowly though they all stopped and began rusting away, mores the pity, they're a great piece of kit all decked out and operational.
Every day above ground is a good day!:
Low personal B.M.E.P.
Hint, Neil, never laugh out loud while on the computer - she'll ask what it was and as you've just proved, you're fucked...
In your case however, it's a twofer - you're paying in advance for the weekend away, and she puts you in your place....
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I thought it was!
An excellent reminisce, mr H.
I love those hedge trimmers - last I saw was on the farm at Motukarara - decimated the side of the Mac "hedgerow" in one extremely noisy, violent, apocalyptic pass. The other 25 feet off the top were up to me, my brother in law, a chainsaw and a tractor with stout rope to pull them away from the power lines as they toppled and tried to twist away........it worked, most of the time......
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
one placenta
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thanks Hitcher, only one more side to go and the thing is 10% smaller all round and hopefully wont flower this season...yeah, Greg...I did laugh, she did catch me laughing ...but he made me laugh, it's his doing...
... A few years back I'd do it in a day with the hedge trimmer attachment on my 026...I cant hold the bastard up that long now...it's a three day affair...oh, well...at least it's done...another job off the list before I head up to HD for this weekends fiesta of motorcycle sport...a three day affair too...seems fair...
Naughty Gentleman Biker
I too saw the beast at Tawhiti museum and was frankly awestruck. I'd never heard of, or seen, anything like it. I mused for a while as to how fantastic and scary the thing must have been in action and promptly put it in the (things I will never witness) file.
Strange things have a way cropping up in my life however, Like the time I was driving south of London on a Job and missed the last flight of Concorde by about an hour, except I didn't, on my return up North I passed Heathrow just as the old bird took off for her real last flight to be parked up somewhere for good. She flew right over the top of my Truck and I don't mind fessing up to shedding a tear or two, marvelous moment.
Back to the hedge cutter: we left Tawhiti and took the back roads to Hawera to have yet another OMG moment, fixated by what appeared to be the propeller of a giant aeroplane stuck in a hedgerow, we pulled over to see the very monster hedge cutter, mentioned previously, start up and shake the world. The noise and spectacle were every bit as magnificent in real life as it had been in my imagination.
There you go, two things I thought I would never see, firmly nestled in the (I was there) file.
Oh bugger
Bogeyman
I hadn't seen one for fkun years, and one pops up down the road a month ago, dealing to a 30ft mac hedge. The type with a 12 ft sawblade. Love it, any machinery, old or new that represents a massive overkill solution to a mundane but very real problem.There you go, two things I thought I would never see, firmly nestled in the (I was there) file.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Naughty Gentleman Biker
Oh well played sir, exactly how I feel.
I'ma get medieval on your ass!
Thanks very much Hitcher for this blast from the past. Southland is covered with macrocarpa hedges because they provide very efficient shelter and last 100 years. There are still hedge cutters prowling around and plenty of work for them.
When he was young, Dad used to cut the hedges on the farm with a slasher and 24ft ladder. There are hundreds of yards of them (still there) and it took weeks so it wasn't surprising when the first hedge cutters arrived they were greeted with enthusiastic relief.
The early ones used a flail and couldn't reach more than about 12ft but eventually a bloke turned up with a monster saw blade on a hydraulic arm, built on an old army truck. That mother could tackle anything - including pine trees and bluegums. 'Course he got stuck in the ditch beside the hedge but thats why we have tractors.
Heady days of youth. Love the smell of cut mac.
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