To begin with, I agree with you: the cedar hedges are a pain in the ass...

Now that said, you're either imagining a future pain, as caused by trimming hedges in, oh I don't know, June when Spring arrives, in which case you're crazy. Or, you're actually trimming hedges somewhere in mid-March, in which case I actually hate you a little bit... :p

Your wife likes it when you trim the hedges.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

?? trimming !!

Shit, I'm about to mow lawns for the 4th damn time this year already :-)

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RayGovett
Hughson CA
Be Prepared-- Strike Swiftly -- Who Dares Wins- Without warning-"it will be hard. I can do it"

I was hoping this was a colloquialism - but so boring

You made my day. When we moved this last time I made sure there was no grass of hedges at the new home. Just rocks. Works for me.

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"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

I hate it when you knick the balls. Bleeds like a MF'er.

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Long Chile was a silly place.

Um, don’t knick the balls?

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Like I'd do it intentionally. I'm not Duffy.

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Long Chile was a silly place.

Now my wife hates how I am trimming the hedges.

Apparently I have cut them too short.

F-me! I'm only a 1/4 way through...

I don't either, but having the right tool makes all the difference. When I bought my current house with about 4 acres and hundreds of feet of 8 foot hedge, I did it exactly once with a Black and Decker Hedgehog corded trimmer. I bought an 8 foot Stihl articulating gas hedge trimmer and the job is done in a fraction of the time.

Both houses we moved into in England had holly hedges. Eight feet tall ones. They would cut you like a knife while you were balancing on a step ladder trying to get to tops trimmed. Sure looked nice though, and our dogs couldn't get through them.

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"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.

Those are some hedges! The English really know how to manage their hedge rows. This mess I inherited is...a mess. Trees growing in and through it, the hedge growing through the fence into the neighbor's yard, donor material growing in it too. I rented the Makita MM4 hedge trimmer, but abandoned that and went full chain saw.

Try this pro-tip:

Tape down the safety switches so you can operate it one-handed while standing on a chair balanced over a road drain and really reach out over the hedge on tippy toes.

When the chair flips over and you go down like a sack of shit be sure to fling the still operating trimmer high into the air so it might stop before it lands on your head.

Drive yourself to hospital with the resultant head injury because your wife doesn't want you bleeding in her car.

Bingo! You never have to cut the hedge again - because you clearly can't be trusted.