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Lifting turf strip to plant hedge

Posted by Austin Campbell on October 4, 2016 at 7:03am in Groundscare

I am going to quote for planting a Golden Leylandii hedge, about 10m long, using 80-100cm plants. It will involve lifting a strip of relatively newly laid turf along the line of a fence (it's on a new housing estate). Does anyone have any idea how long it would take to lift the turf manually, or would it be cost effective to hire a turf cutter? Thanks for any advice.

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    Richard Gadsby October 4, 2016 at 7:25am
    About an hour will be easy:)
    It's not worth getting a turf cutter in on hire. If you had one then use it but a turf spade or even just a spade won't take long.
  • Austin Campbell October 4, 2016 at 7:46am
    Thanks Richard. I thought hiring one might be a bit much. From your estimate it looks like I could probably get it lifted in the time it would take to collect the machine :)
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      Richard Gadsby > Austin Campbell October 4, 2016 at 8:48am
      Probably:) once you get the first bit out. If you get on your knees you are at the right level to just slide spade under the rest
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    Seth Burgess October 4, 2016 at 1:10pm

    How newly laid?
    If you get the job maybe best to lift the turf straight away before it beds in and then come back when you can to plant.

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        Seth Burgess October 4, 2016 at 2:50pm

        Still easier to lift new turf whichever way its laid.

  • Austin Campbell October 5, 2016 at 8:51am

    Thanks for the advice. The turf should be fairly new - it's a new build estate and the builder is still selling houses up there. I'm going up to look at the job tonight.

    I cannot find Golden Leylandii locally so will probably be looking online. Has anyone used hedginguk.com before? Their prices look significantly cheaper than a few others I've looked at.

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      Richard Gadsby > Austin Campbell October 5, 2016 at 9:57am
      I've used them before but I have a feeling the prices shown are subject to VAT. Can't quite remember and may be wrong. The plants were fine though
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