On 2009-12-11 08:48:07 +0000, Aries said:

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:59:20 +0000, Sacha wrote:

On 2009-12-10 13:23:50 +0000, Charlie Pridham
said:

In article ,
says...
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:50:59 -0000, Charlie Pridham wrote:

I have a Bosch (40-18S)and it tackles quite big stuff if the blade is
sharpe, it is light and easy to use. I am not keen on using it off the
ground, but it would be quite happy to take out a 20 foot lylandii
cutting at around chest height, be a good idea to get someone to control
the tree coming down with a rope.

A question Charlie - wouldn't cutting such tall leylandii down that much
kill it off altogether? I ask that question as we too have a very tall
leylandii hedge running around part of our property and I hate it - makes me
feel rather claustrophobic

Yes :~)))

Go for it, would be my solution. I hate the damned things when grown
in the wrong place. I had a big, green, boring, claustrophobic slab of
them in my previous garden. When they came down I truly preferred
drive and walk by villagers peering into the garden I was making. It
led to many interesting chats. Normally, I hate to see trees felled,
it's a horrible thing to me. I could have danced the "death to
leylandii" dance the day those came down!

I'd love to but I have to persuade Tony first !

You need a frinedly farming neighbour with a 'run wild' chainsaw. ;-)
The other possibility might be to take all the branches off and use the
remaining trunks, with rope or chain looped between them, as a sort of
pergola.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon