A new Client approached me to remove an old hedge! As she explained that they had recently bought a house and decided to remove an old overgrown hedge, but something went wrong and realizing that there was actually a lot more work than they thought, they decided to ask for my help.
When I arrived with my assistant on site, I realized that I underestimated the work on the photogoraphy that I was sent and to tell the truth I decided to refuse this work, because the customer asked to remove the hedge together with the root and I thought that we can cope with the help of hand tools, so I did not even began to take a stump cutter, which I recently bought.
When I said I wasn't ready to do the job as the Homeowner wanted, she asked me to at least try to do something, then I said we would try to do something, but if we couldn't dig up the hedge from the root, we would cut it down to ground level. We started by cutting off any extra branches and anything else that might get in our way, then using shovels and pickaxes we started digging out the hedge trunks and we were very lucky that I had a chain winch in my car, which I carry with me for this kind of work. But I only had a Stihl cordless chainsaw with me, which is not designed for cutting large trunks, so this made the work very difficult. I was very lucky that the waste recycling dump was very close, so I took everything out very quickly and it didn’t take much time. We still managed to remove several trunks of the hedge by the roots, but we simply cut down the thicker ones, however, when the Mistress arrived, she was very surprised that we had managed to complete this task.
All this work took us almost 10 hours and when I arrived home completely tired, I told my wife that it was 10 HOURS IN HELL!