Chris J Dixon
wibbled on Sunday 11 April 2010 10:23

Tim Watts wrote:

Sadly for my neighbours, I've been running this for 3 days:

http://www.mowwithus.com/pro4.html

150' of bloody hawthorn hedge ;- ******* stuff.

I don't envy you fighting so much hawthorn, but a shredder like
that looks like it could be fun.

Chris

Yes - it's a good excuse to prune everything else, and mop up the tree
pruning pile from last year[1]

Downside is it is *very* noisy - OK for me with ear defenders, but sooner or
later there's going to be a mob with pitchforks outside. At the moment the
"mob" are all commenting that they are glad they no longer get hawthorn and
brambles in their faces walking past the house, so I'm on +1 supportive for
now ;-

[1] It did occur to me that chopping up year old wood might throw some
interesting pathogens into the air, particularly random fungi, but I still
seem to be alive ;-

One thing *that* shredder has taught me is that it is the minimum size of
unit that I consider to be of any use whatsoever, which kind of puts the
kaibosh on anything B&Q sell. The latter are OK if you like shredding nice
straight twigs one by one, or the material is already small enough to throw
on the compost pile!

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Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.