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Pete W.:
When I moved into my previous house, there were 45 Leylandii, up one side of the 40-foot back garden, across the bottom and back down the other side.
They'd been topped at about 10 feet high but had fought back by growing outwards! The foliage from the two sides almost met in the middle.

I asked the neighbours if they were happy for me to remove them.

The folks one side (keen gardeners) said 'Yes please, then we might be able to get stuff to grow nearer than 7 feet from the fence.' :bang: :bang: :bang:

The folks the other side (who had a rather nice German Shepherd) said 'well, yes, but you do realise that it's the Leylandii that are holding up the fence, don't you?!?!'.

I removed as much foliage and small branches as I could and cut the main trunks down to about 4 feet high. A friend lent me a Tirfor winch (is that how I should spell it?). A wonderful device - front cable to the top of the trunk, back cable to the foot of the clothes-line post(steel scaffold pipe, concreted in) and out they came, the trunk pulled over and then the roots just rolled out.
Mind you, after half an hour with a Tirfor winch, you know you've done some aerobic exercise! :doh: :Doh: :doh: :Doh:

It took eleven journeys in my Ford escort estate car to take the foliage to the local tip (oops, sorry, 'Household Waste Recycling Centre'!!). :lol: :lol: :lol:

Bluechip:

--- Quote from: Pete W. on August 08, 2014, 09:19:52 AM ---
I removed as much foliage and small branches as I could and cut the main trunks down to about 4 feet high. A friend lent me a Tirfor winch (is that how I should spell it?).

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Turfer Pete :thumbup:

Used them in ancient times for heaving oil-cooled armoured cable about ... and yup, I do seem to remember they were character building ... IIRC you heaved the lever through about a 3 foot arc to gain about an inch or so of travel ... which was a bit of a bu99er if you had 50 yards of cable ...

Dave

awemawson:
Sorry to disagree, but mine says TIRFOR on the side of it

http://www.tractel.com/en/series.php?id_serie=47

As you say you know when you've used one for a period. The father of a friend of mine got my 17 foot Ifor Williams trailer stuck at the bottom of a hill in a field when it was full of logs. I winched it 45 foot up a hill before the wire rope would reach my Land Rover on firm ground and I could pull it. The Tirfor gives about 1/2" of progress for each pull - 45 x 12 x 2 = 1080 backwards and forwards pumps, I was totally knackered for two days :bang:

Pete W.:
Dave and Andrew,

Thanks for that - I'm so glad it wasn't just me getting old!! :ddb: :ddb: :ddb:

On the subject of anno domini, my lovely but shy assistant got an email from a relative of hers and forwarded it to me. It's a link to a YouTube performance of a song that goes 'I don't look good naked anymore!'.
I'd post the link but there's a rude bit in the middle!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Bluechip:
Andrew ..

Tirfor must be a trade mark then. I remember the thing we used had something like ' The Samson Turfer' made in ' Smethwick' cast on the side of it.

Damn thing weighed about a hundredweight in it's own right. Little wonder it never got swiped 'cos other stuff did ... :ddb:

http://www.htsdirect.co.uk/products/lifting-gear/cable-pullers-turfers/

Described here as a 'Turfer' so we're both right and Pete owes us a pint each I reckon ...

Dave

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