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reducing height of hedge

chickey · 2018-07-09 14:11:37

Hi looking for advise on bringing down height of an old hedge -mixture of leylandii and griselinia. My corded hedge cutter is not able for anything too heavy duty - if I hired a petrol version would it be able to power through the hedge or would it be better to try and get into it with a pruning saw? Pictures attached.…

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09-07-2018 3:11pm

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chickey

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Hi

looking for advise on bringing down height of an old hedge -mixture of leylandii and griselinia. My corded hedge cutter is not able for anything too heavy duty - if I hired a petrol version would it be able to power through the hedge or would it be better to try and get into it with a pruning saw? Pictures attached.

advice welcome. Thanks.

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#2 09-07-2018 4:35pm
my3cents

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Cut it all down as far as you want, you'll loose the leylandii but I've seen 50ft griselinia cut back to 3 foot stumps and grow away again.

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