Cleaning fencerows 2nd posting

I replied to a posting about clearing fencerows and said that my main business was cutting back our fencelines here in Northern Ireland.We call them hedges and my job is hedgecutting.Thought I would post some pics for anyone interested.We have different ways of doing things over here as our climate is so different,this year has been real wet so...We are over mechanised, we get all the new stuff for testing ..if it sticks our conditions it will work just about anywhere, especially grass equipment. The hedges in the first pic are two years growth,A gas pipe mains went through last year and blocked the cutting of this hedge, another year and my machine may not have managed it
pic 2 is the machine I use, it is 5 yrs old now and about ready to change.The tractor is 12 yrs old and has around 13000 hrs done.
Pic 3 the job finished, everthing is chopped up
pic4 is one yrs growth on the same farm. This farm is a small 17 acre plot in 3 fields...took me 3 hrs to do the whole farm
Pic 5 1 yrs growth cut back
pic 6 With my dual wheels the tractor literally floats on dirty water!
Pic 7 neighbours have a habit of leaving you a surprise, this heating oil tank was not in the hedge last time and I did not see it first run, don't think I should cut any closer at the price of oil!
pic 8 For my sins I get asked to cut this horrible ornamental leylandii hedging every now and then, it is difficult to cut as it blows down in front of the flails and it stinks!
pic 9 hope it pleases them!
Pic 10 my controls with the toggles worn flat with my fingers,I often wonder why the fingers don't wear first!
Sam

thanks for posting the pics. like seeing what it is like in other places. my roots lead back to northern Ireland.

That looks really slick! My husband and son trim our brush with a chain saw and then apply brush killer.

very interesting,,, thanks for sending the pictures

will they turn livestock ? do you have a picture of a gatein a fencerow?

What kind of a fence is under that mess? Will they contain livestock, or are they just to designate the property line?

Yes they contain livestock very well, sometimes there is barbed wire where the hedge is thin. We mostly farm livestock.
Sam

Nice neat work Sam, Lot of hedgecutting been done here in Nottinghamshire this last few weeks. Do you get to the big tractor show at Newark next month. I run the feature tractors every year and this year I am doing Perkins engined tractors. MJ

A literal hedgerow fence; wow!

Hope to get over again, last year I had to hobble about with a broken leg!!! Should be more manoeuverable this time!
Sam

What kind of shrubbery do you plant for hedges that can hold in livestock? Curious because I would rather have it then a wire fence here in Oklahoma.
Ralph.

Ralph these hedges are mostly natural bushes common to British Isles.The fast growing stuff is Ash and willow, but not good for keeping in stock,but we staple our wire to them. in between is mostly hawthorn and blackthorn and bramble all very good for keeping in stock, of course we have hazel,holly,sycamore(maple) and many others. Originally during the settlement of Ulster(mostly Northern Ireland) Hawthorn would have been planted but the rest have joined in over the years!
Sam