Note to self part 6

When deciding it's time to attach the brambles growing on a bank
surrounding your lawn do *not* ignore it when your gloves rip through
and carry on regardless.

You will spend the evening cursing the pain in your finger from the
lacerations from brambles. Well, at least when you wake up and before
you 'self medicate'.

 

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Attach = attack, natch.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
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Oh, I dunno.

IME of cutting brambles, "attach" works pretty well.

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Sir needs a flame thrower.

 

oooh, ta for the reminder... off to ScrewFix to get the Kevlar glove
thingies before doing the brambles tomorrow!

 

Is this thread about a bunch of flower growing pooftas?

 

Not really, the brambles are underneath holly and other shrubs I'd
rather not nuke.

 

**** off you dull ****.

 

When attacking brambles (I have never attached a bramble, indeed I
wouldn't know how, but it could be painful in my parents' garden where
they grow freely, I have always used the gauntlets Dad got when he had a
Matchless in the '50s. They have never let me down. Tough they are.

I wouldn't fancy trying to ride a bike in these mind

Regards, Ian

 

Well, I was more interested in pulling the fucking roots out to be
honest. Bloody things.

 

Sythe mower.

It's the only way.

 

Or a goat.

 

Ah, so much for that plan. Do you have 'roundup'? It's kinda like agent
orange but more user friendly.

 

I "pruned" my fire thorn hedge with a lot of sawing and then towed it
away with the Skoda. That was reasonably successful.

 

Paraquat. YKIMS

 

Gardening type blowtorch. A true Tim Allen moment.

Ali

 

Yes, but it still leaves the dead brambles in place. I wanted the
fucking things gone... and on the bonfire.

 

I bought welders' gauntlets at an aero jumble. Brambles cannot get through
those buggers.

Ali

 

Nonsense, you can keep the collateral damage down to one or two hectares.

 

Once we've convinced WUN he needs a plasma cutter, we can get him to bring
it round and go crazy...