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Should also have mentioned that there is a fence in there too which has been swallowed up.
A chainsaw is no good it will just throw the chain. A good rough cut hedge cutter freshly sharpened and loppers is what you need for jobs such as this. Once you get started on it, its not that bad a job, cut through it in sections and lift and ton bag it as you go, pretty straight forward job.
Thanks Brian. I will give it ago. Cheers
One note of caution here. There are two things that will cause plants to die back, or even kill them, if you drastically cut them back this hard. A severe winter will cause die back in new growth that hasn't hardened up enough, and plants already under stress from drought will not recover fast.
I'd say it was too late in the year to hard-prune anything, certainly in the dry heat we've had near me. If they've already cut all the "green leafy bits" off, I think it's probably too severe a cut already and wouldn't want to go in for a proper restoration until next spring. Hope the plants sprout from lower down now (I'd feed and water them to encourage this), and that's the point you can cut back to next season.
hedge shears and loppers to try create some sort of division between the plants if thats at all possible..though they look dead already. id then go at it with brush cutter with a steel blade on to clear the bases of the shrubs and work my way up towards some sort of shaping them.
as brian says, cut it into squars the lenth of the blade take it all down to the ground, non of that will die off but if you want water it after
Thanks all. It was a complete removal wanted so no need to preserve anything.