Right then. Moved house back in the winter and I’m doing my best to sort the garden out. At least get it in some semblance of order. The garden (or the house) hasn’t seen 5 years of TLC whilst it was occupied by tenants.
It’s a semi. The boundary with the adjoining neighbour hasn’t been touched for years. There are a number of bushes / shrubs that are shooting up pretty high now. Think Elder / Alder / Spiky red bastard things of various decriptions. All up to around 3 metres high.
Now I’ve been chipping away at this stuff with secaturs / saws / hedge trimmers / long loppers for the last few weeks a few hours a weekend and now I’ve got it all “under control” I’m just looking at it thinking… “if I just ‘prune’ it well hard and get it all to around 6ft…”.
Then I remember when I cleared out all my old man’s stuff he had an electric chainsaw. A Stihl something or other. It works. Or at least it spins. This would really make it simple to lop everything down to a decent height. Or would it…?
Being a safety conscious kind of guy I’m not going to launch into using this thing without doing any kind of research. I’ve googled etc safe use of chainsaws but I’m not talking about felling massive oaks. This is out of control shrubbery but a far bit of wood is 10cm wide. Is this really the right tool for the job? Will certain death ensue…? Shall I leave it alone? Or if I go into this carefully will it help and assist the job I am trying to do?