Hedge cutting

Catherine Keena shares her top tips for managing hedgerows and how untopped treelines provide shelter and a habitat for wildlife.

The Teagasc events are to showcase demonstrations of both topped and tree-line hedges established over the past three years.

Hedge-cutting almost 30 years and now on his seventh new Bomford hedge cutter, Gary Abbott finds out why Bomfords Variable Forward Arm has been a game changer for Wicklow contractor Richard Woodroofe.

While the burning of agricultural green waste has been banned indefinitely, hedge-cutting season still opens as usual on the 1 September and runs until the 28 February.

Peter Thomas Keaveney caught up with Roscommon contractor John Murray, who swapped out two flail heads for two Major rotary heads on his Bomford hedge cutters.

Gary Abbott looks at some of the key maintenance areas to consider, in order to get the most out of your hedge cutter when the season arrives.