L&M
Well-Known Member
Sorry but pointless rant - does anyone else find the hedge brushing time of year stressful and frustrating?!!!!
We got a phone call at 9pm last night to say the hedgeman was coming today - would be with us around 11.30am. Cue big panic and early start this morning to get horses off field, take down reams of electric fencing etc, but at least it was our day off.
Now coming up to 1.30pm and no sign of him - the isssue we have is that he won't get the whole job done in an afternoon, and we won't be able to put the horses back out later (ours live out). This also causes us a problem if he has to come back tomorrow as will be at work and no one here to get them in.
First world problem especially with everything that is going on currently, but he does this to us every year. We ask for him to give us notice - never happens. We ask him to specify a time - he is always running behind. We have to padlock out gate too as he has been known to just turn up and go in there whilst the horses are still out, despite being asked every year NOT to go in if there are horses in there.
The worst he did was leave a gate open that adjoins our field and which is rented by a lady with a herd of semi - feral sec a's. He decided to leave the gate open whilst eating his lunch and just a miracle I saw it and shut the gate, or would have had 12 uncatcheable little monsters in our field!
We have this every year.......but as our landlord organises/pays the hedgeman, and uses him on his own farm, we can't change contractor, and give him his due he does a decent job.......but just so frustrating watching the minutes tick by (he doesn't answer his phone so no point in trying that route!).
Oh and most years I get a puncture as he does the lane too.......but at least it is relatively dry so the ground won't be too cut up, assuming he actually does turn up today, as the weather turns wet tomorrow and really don't want him on the field then.
I just wish people would turn up when they say they would, especially when moving horses about are involved.
Rant over....!
We got a phone call at 9pm last night to say the hedgeman was coming today - would be with us around 11.30am. Cue big panic and early start this morning to get horses off field, take down reams of electric fencing etc, but at least it was our day off.
Now coming up to 1.30pm and no sign of him - the isssue we have is that he won't get the whole job done in an afternoon, and we won't be able to put the horses back out later (ours live out). This also causes us a problem if he has to come back tomorrow as will be at work and no one here to get them in.
First world problem especially with everything that is going on currently, but he does this to us every year. We ask for him to give us notice - never happens. We ask him to specify a time - he is always running behind. We have to padlock out gate too as he has been known to just turn up and go in there whilst the horses are still out, despite being asked every year NOT to go in if there are horses in there.
The worst he did was leave a gate open that adjoins our field and which is rented by a lady with a herd of semi - feral sec a's. He decided to leave the gate open whilst eating his lunch and just a miracle I saw it and shut the gate, or would have had 12 uncatcheable little monsters in our field!
We have this every year.......but as our landlord organises/pays the hedgeman, and uses him on his own farm, we can't change contractor, and give him his due he does a decent job.......but just so frustrating watching the minutes tick by (he doesn't answer his phone so no point in trying that route!).
Oh and most years I get a puncture as he does the lane too.......but at least it is relatively dry so the ground won't be too cut up, assuming he actually does turn up today, as the weather turns wet tomorrow and really don't want him on the field then.
I just wish people would turn up when they say they would, especially when moving horses about are involved.
Rant over....!
, but the timing is under our control, and the field doesn’t get cut up by the tractor tyres. All done now for this autumn.
