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DrunkenMasterII t1_irc6s7m wrote

Reply to comment by ReadAllowedAloud in The best tool to trim your bushes by madredditscientist

You’d have to be a maniac to use those to fully trim bushes. I mean unless it’s a passion project and you’re perfectionist and details oriented. This is more for precise work, things you can only do manually or like you said roses and stuff.

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Regge991 t1_ircgvxc wrote

I had to trim bushes with these and a stringline at arborist school. Twas painful.

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DrunkenMasterII t1_irci4dz wrote

Lol. This is absurd, like they’re great cutters if you have to prune a ton of trees/plants for grafting or selective branches cleaning and yeah sometimes it’s the right tool and you’ll have to use it a ton to the point it gets painful, it’s manual labour after all, but trimming bush with a stringline is just ridiculous. Hopefully the goal of the exercise was to teach you what was the desired most precise result so that you can pick up pace later and use an electric edge trimmer or something.

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Regge991 t1_ircio85 wrote

It was the lecturer stressing the importance of cutting back to growth points, but it's the kind of thing where as soon as we leave the classroom it's back to swinging off a Stihl 2 stroke.

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DrunkenMasterII t1_ircl3tq wrote

Oh well it does make sense. I mean I don’t know how are arborist classes, but I studied horticulture focused on food production and lots of the learning was about keeping plants healthy and productive and I’ve seen my fair share of right vs wrong way of trimming. I’ve seen so many botched jobs on hedges or bushes where people basically just kill branches by over cutting, so I understand the goal. Still could’ve given the same information without having you cut a shit ton of them.

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Regge991 t1_irclapb wrote

I think it was the campus exploiting free student labor tbh. We spent 2 days doing every hedge in the school

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