CUTTING HEDGES with a DIGGER

Cutting the over grown hedges around my homestead using a 13 ton digger!
Cutting Shears and flail mower attachment for a Hitachi 130 360 excavator. And using a leaf blower to tidy up the public road afterwards. There's plenty of firewood to sort through for next winter.
I want to build an off-grid homestead in Northern Ireland where I will grow and feed my family with chemical free and full of nutrients-packed food on a daily basis. I want to create a healthy lifestyle that my three kids will look back on fondly and to a place they will eventually call home.
My history.
I have a level 3 cert in sports turf horticulture from where I started my work as a greenkeeper working on golf courses. I have spent alot of my working career both around and driving different types of construction machinery. I have also learnt a thing or two working with plenty of highly skilled trades men. This accompanied with my own skill set, creativity, resorcefulness and efficient approach will aid me in turning this 4.25 acres of unused land into the most fertile landscape in the area, using regenative and holistic farming methods to grow my own meat and veg.
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[@gregganderson1454]

That cutter can cut some seriously, thick stuff.

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

It sure can. I have plenty of firewood now if I could get it out of the field 😆

[@imcg]

The machinery certainly coming in handy mate. Place coming together nicely, can't wait to see some animals in and some produce 👍

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

Thanks Iain the hired machinery can be costly but it makes a difference

[@jasdunlop9907]

Good to see different way .but if it were mine i would cut all the hedges down to size and leave it a year then flail yearly after that plant new hedge in the gaps will make a good thick hedge for the wildlife .

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

My hedge was well over grown. Getting the digger to cut the top out was so i could easier manage by hand this winter. See, I'm going to lay the hedge the old way this winter. After that I'll have then probably pay to have them trimmed every 2 years. This is to allow food for the animals over winter. Them gaps when I lay the hedge over should fill a few and give.me plenty of firewood for the stove

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

Oh I nearly forgot this guy was recommended to me by the guy with a flail hedge mower. He said. The hedge was too far gone and the digger would be better. Thanks 😊