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Out on my skates the other night, and the overgrowth from the red bridge down towards Granton is really unbearable.
Would anyone be up for helping with a trim back? I could zip down and cut it easily enough, but gathering the offcuts to one side takes forever. It would go a lot faster with one or two more pairs of hands.
Up for that, depending on time/date. I can also lay my hands on some tools if required (loppers, bowsaws, pole pruner, maybe other things).
Don’t mind helping too
I did this 2 or 3 years ago with a slash hook as I was fed up of being clothes-lined when it was damp and the wet branches drooped down onto the path.
The sight lines at Craigleith 5-ways was another one I used to do when I commuted that way.
We are supposed to still be distancing so you'd think the council would abandon their "only trim the verges in August" cost-saving policy. At least for the duration of the pandemic
Can give it a go again on Sunday 10am?
I'm away this weekend unfortunately. I was thinking about an early morning attack run (back home for work starting) but it's hard to schedule around childcare.
OK, looks like I'm free tomorrow before the coffee on the canal. I'll try and do an hour before heading up to the canal sometime around 8am
Alas I have swimming tomorrow morning and can't make Sunday either (doing pathwork elsewhere, ironically).
Is it mainly soft vegetation? If so I might swing by with a grasshook one evening to see if anything needs doing. I occasionally take loppers out to deal with a pesky branch or two but haven't been that way for a while.
It's a mix, a lot of light hedge with some thicker bits from the trees. Not many big enough to really need a saw though. I didn't take a good look at ground level.
Not recent but see https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9744942,-3.2410087,3a,75y,123.44h,79.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suw9BCG55YChaYPZSVQ4imA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
And the hedge at the bottom is massively overreaching now too: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9807534,-3.236846,3a,15y,211.24h,88.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNqWNr5cuOj1u1zrjR25WqQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
I've got a split shaft strimmer / hedge trimmer / polesaw type thing (electric, not petrol). Will bring a rake and spare gloves / glasses in case anyone else can rock up.
https://twitter.com/david_mccraw/status/1418473919204503554?s=19
Bit of a hack job, but a little better above waist height.
Great work
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