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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: henryandlesley on March 02, 2009, 13:22:59
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hi who thinks that my disco will beat the hedge which i am trying to remove
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Is it a sentient hedge?
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Might be easier to beat the Discovery with the hedge - like Basil Fawlty did.
:-.
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Probably, but I'd just buy a chainsaw. Discos aren't really intended to double as all-purpose demolition tools, that's what FUBARs are for! :lol:
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well as I have towed out tree stumps from derelict canal beds with mine then a hedge should be dead easy. On the stumps it couldnt pull out I had both feet on my foot brake whilst someone else used a huge tirfor on the back of the disco to ease the stump out a bit then I had another go towing! :D :lol: :D
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well as I have towed out tree stumps from derelict canal beds with mine then a hedge should be dead easy. On the stumps it couldnt pull out I had both feet on my foot brake whilst someone else used a huge tirfor on the back of the disco to ease the stump out a bit then I had another go towing! :D :lol: :D
Reminds me of using a vehicle as an anchor for a tirfor when pulling out a tree - it was a close run thing as to whether the tree was coming out of the canal, or the vehicle was going in... :shock:
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Lost the rag having to squeeze past an overgrown bush going up the path to our front door once. Loaded down with shopping et al and the d...[ahem!] darn thing was slapping at my face and catching my arms...
Got through... dumped the shopping... connected tow rope to bush and towbar... selected low box... first gear (though second may have offered more control!)...
Bush 0 - Disco 1!
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Land Rover Gardening... there's nothing like it!
Skibum
PS... wonder what a question on Land Rover gardening would sound like on Radio 4's Gardners Question Time...?! :shock: 8-[
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heheh lol nothing like a spot of gardening is there :-k reminds when we moved in lol i pulled up 3 trees with the Disco lol
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been a expert tree sergeon, ( I DONT THINK ) lol me and 2 mates were removing some 40ft conifer type trees from the bank behind a friend house, before anyone says anything we checked with the council and they said we could remove them,
anyway we got some safety bits on and proceeded to chop the trees down, but the trunk bent back abit toward his house, :grin: doh, so i ran home jumped in the disco and drove into his back garden, my mate tied a rope to the tree went down the bank and a snatch block to another tree, we all [-o< [-o< [-o< this worked or good buy roof, i slowly reversed and the tree straightnd itself so i kept pulling and see went the right way and feel down the bank,
since i have now sold the chainsaw and bought some pruners anything i cant cut with them says there, lol
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discos are great for removeing trees and heges,have done a few with mine and been no prob at all :dance:
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i pulled an old wooden stable down with me dads disco!knocked a hole either side of a supporting post, tied a tow rope round it and drove off!! great mornings work! :-.
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weve used the 127 for felling so many trees, one was a poplar trunk 25 feet high and over 5 feet across(the chainsaw had a 2foot6 bar, cut from both sides and they didnt reach each other :-o), probabley weighed about threee ton, landy/winch combo pulled it right where we aimed it :cool:. another was a 20 foot ash pole about 3 foot across that we felled against a 45 degree lean, it was all fenced in and about 20 foot from an eletric transformer thing, we used a snath block into the woods, then back to the tree, cut 2/3rds trough it, winched it up straight, cut it a bit more, reversed landy, tree came over within about 3 feet of where we were aiming :) weve also used the winch to pull out a yukka plant that weighed over half a ton, drove straight up to ran the cable straight round it and back on itself to bite into the plant, pulled it in and out it came! then took an hour and a half to winch it on/off the trailer, including pulling over a railway sleeper sized fence post when unloading it :doh:
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If you dont mind it growing back you could curt it down.
If you pull it out you will need to cut most of it down first (if its bushy). If you by a chainsaw read the posts I did when I was looking and most importantly the replies about PPE and you will see your talking about £300> for a saw + PPE. If its a one off youd be cheaper getting a contractor in to do it and doing a few of your paid repairs you mentioned, breakeing even on the day and everyone is happy.
You also diddnt mention "Set fire to it"
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I shouldnt say this but be care ful you dont break somthing (Im expecting a barage of abuse from henery for this lol)
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Rememebr that fences can blow down easily, and need a coat of preservative every few years. Also cost money to buy and sweet little birds cant nest in them.
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how tall/thick are the trees/bushes? if theyre thinner than about 3inches they will be a right pain as theyll just snap or the strops slid up them and ping off. a matocks quite good for diging up hedges aswell!
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Rememebr that fences can blow down easily, and need a coat of preservative every few years. Also cost money to buy and sweet little birds cant nest in them.
well at least they carnt crap all over your nice clean truck lol true if it was jap it would of been through the hedge :lol: :lol:
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When I had my crash a couple of weeks ago I ended up in a hedge . . . . . :doh:
The Disco won :dance: