Gardening

[10KPete]

Aliens ......................

Neat stuff, thanks!

Pete

[Jo]

The end of the season  We had a frost of minus 5 in the week and on opening the greenhouse door I had a waft of damp rotting Tomatoes  So today was clear the Greenhouse out day.

To make me feel a little better I had a delivery of a special side and face cutter  this is a special gardening side and face cutter which has its own motor attached. This is going to be fun 

Jo

[Roger B]

That looks a  rather violent machine   

[Bluechip]

Smartened the greenhouse up    Always think they look so much nicer without the scruffy plants .. 

Firework night just getting going here. I think I might go outside and watch some other silly buggers money going 'pop' for a few minutes.

Then back in for a slurp. 

Wonder how many will land up in casualty this year 

Dave

[Jo]

We've started, it should take about an hour to complete

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DX7WaLq6EY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DX7WaLq6EY</a>

Jo

[Jasonb]

That's a bit more effective than the ones from the hire shops which tend to bounce off anything more that a couple of inch thickness

Not sure if the machine will last an hour judging by all that smoke coming out of it 

[Vixen]

And that is just the roughing cut. Sometimes photos fail to convey the magnitude of the undertaking

All that contracted work must be costing someone a fortune.

Mike

[Jo]

The machine is still happily running  The delays are due to having to keep clearing all the cut stuff out the way. It runs for about 15mins then it takes best part of an hour to clear the chippings/soil scooped up ready for the next cut. Hopefully these photos will give a better idea of the size of the stump and the depth of each cut

The tree removal, including stump grinding and landscaping after is working out at £6,500  And I have about £800 of logs hidden stored behind my garage 

Jo

[crueby]

Wow - might have been cheaper to let your shop elves tunnel into the tree and make a house out of it.
That stump grinder machine is a beast - make a good model....   

[Jo]

All gone  this is the last little bit being scooped out:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtL8nEVo4nA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtL8nEVo4nA</a>

And they have taken it back home now  The good news is that there is lots of spare topsoil that I have generously offered to re-home 

Jo

[Roger B]

That was quite an event  I hope that isn't your house without any windows in the background 

[Jo]

That is my neighbour's house- its more than short of a couple of windows at present. For the last 20 years it has looked like a scrap yard The inside was much worse  . Little did I know when he brought it the new owner is a builder and in the 7 weeks he has owned the property it has changed but I am not sure if the term is "improved". 


But one bit of good news for all of you who have ever got a builder in to do something and it takes twice as long as they said it would and the price keeps going up: He was supposed to be moving in for Xmas and he is now thinking it might be Easter, and he goes rather pale when he talks about the spiralling costs 


That little toy has made me think about a powered cultivator for the garden

Jo

[Roger B]

I don't think that you will need the 100+ horse power that that beast had 

[Jasonb]

That little toy has made me think about a powered cultivator for the garden

Jo

I thought that was what the BB1 was for

[Roger B]

Don't you need a pair  maybe one would work with lot's of return pulleys and ground anchors.