5 Aug 2018

Spent 75 minutes pruning a large shrub. It was the first time I tried my new Stihl hedge trimmers, and i was a little nervous about it, as I'd never before used one that was motorized.

Anyway, it's easy to use, but it weighs 8 pounds, so swinging that thing around, raising it shoulder length or a little higher and waving it back and forth, moving it in an even upward swing to do the sides of the hedge... it was kind of fun, although I did have to use loppers for some of the larger branches, and hand pruners to reach in where I couldn't reach with the power tool. So it took me a little while, but now it's done.

One down, three to go - but that last hedge is along the entire length of the driveway.