In Japan they routinely use gas powered trimmers to prune azaleas.
Azaleas there are a common plant for hedges.

Albert

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: I have a large amount of Azaleas, and it gets old quick cutting and
: pruning them one branch at a time by hand. What would be wrong with
: using a gas powered hedge type trimmer to clip em all back a bit, and
: even them up.
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