Chipper

As usual for an August bank holiday, my parents are up from Cornwall.

My Dad was obviously a little on the bored side on Friday as, while I was at work, he attacked my back garden, cutting the grass and tidying the borders. All the sorts of things I’ve not had time to do since I got back from holiday. He also attacked the budlia. By the time I’d got home more than half of it had been “pruned.”

Well, I have had an idea to, in the future, attack the bush and remove it as it had become rather too large for the garden, about 20 foot in diameter and a similar height. This was now just an opportunity to remove it now. So, over the weekend we attacked it further and by yesterday evening the site where the bush once was contained merely a stump. However, the rest of the garden was filled with bush.

So, this morning, after taking some of the larger lumps to the tip, sorry recycling centre, we popped into B&Q and I bought a garden shredder/chipper. Well, it took us about 3 hours constant work to reduce a garden sized pile of twigs, limbs and leaves into a medium sized pile of chippings. The Mountfield shredder was definitely a good buy as it chompped through quite large bows with little difficulty… well other than one which had a knot in it, which pulled part of the chute down into cutter and took me about 20 minutes to extract. Still, the chute didn’t get damaged too greatly and it was relatively easily put back in place.

Anyway, it’s late afternoon and it’s time for a bit of a rest.

3 thoughts on “Chipper

  1. The buddlia will re-grow from the stump, but if it gets over excited you can now contain the result!

    I wonder how transportable the chipper is – and is the result compostable? Now why would I wonder that – not that I have need at the moment.

    Have updated holiday onto LJ if you are really bored.

    Glad that your Dad can still get them up to visit you. Pity we missed Paddington and co whilst we were coming home (I guess), but need to get you down sometime…

    • Well, it is transportable. It surprisingly compact actually, though an awkward shape to lift and it’s rather heavy. You can set the thing to grind follage, apparently, so it’s compostable.

      As for the stump, well, the plan is to attack that with matches and a chainsaw on my Dad’s next visit.

      Yaeh (to both missing Paddington and coming to visit). 🙂

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