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u/TwiilightCat 23h ago
The precision is unreal. This hedge is getting more attention than I do on a good hair day.
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u/psychohistorian8 15h ago
yeah my hedges look like I gave a chainsaw and a pot of coffee to an 8 year old
I'm not very good at maintaining a level path while trimming
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u/Anubiz1_ 1d ago
Optical Xanax
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u/imonatrain25 17h ago
Seriously though. It put me in a trance! I could watch this all day.
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u/ClassieLadyk 16h ago
Same, like my neighbors have a grass cutting company, I need to know if they do this and ride along.
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u/OgCashApp 23h ago
I just watched that so many times. Wow 😮💨
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u/whoslisaa 1d ago
I love everything about this
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u/verygroot1 19h ago
there's one thing I hate about this. It's way too short of a video
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u/CaptCaCa 15h ago
This is why the landscaping dudes on YouTube are so popular, something satisfying about yardwork, hell, I get satisfaction when I mow my lawn
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u/Financial_Meat2992 17h ago
Everytime I try to do this, I just have a bunch of ugly sticks. Any advice?
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u/Decloudo 21h ago
Do people really enjoy those artificial as fuck looking trimmed hedges?
"Give me some nature, but dont make it look natural."
I honestly dont get it.
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u/RainWorldWitcher 19h ago
Using cedar at least is better than the boxwoods which have to be sprayed for box tree moth (just rip it out, it's not worth it in NA).
But the hedges are also nice shelter for wildlife instead of something like a wood fence. its a lot of work tho
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u/-Po-Tay-Toes- 13h ago
I definitely don't mind a neat hedge. But all of them like this just look like the equivalent of cheap flat pack furniture or something ripped out of Minecraft.
At least make it a little bushy.
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u/WeightLossGinger 19h ago
Different strokes for different folks. I like the look of both. I am looking to plant an arbovitae hedge myself and both styles look nice to me, it's mainly preference and how close to the wires I want to allow them to get.
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u/Quirky-Marsupial-420 17h ago
Reddit is so fucking contrairon I swear to god.
Thing that so many people like
"Wow do people actually like that?!"
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u/Bobo_Baggins_jatj 18h ago
As someone who has tried to trim hedges, bushes, and the like, can we just be honest and call this art? I absolutely sucked at making everything level and perfect like this. It truly is a talent.
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u/veai 20h ago
The post trim bush looks so ugly, not sure why this is done? Cutting off all that beautiful natural fractal formations
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u/FearlessPressure3 16h ago
I have two of these bushes and it needs to be done because these things can grow over a metre in height and width each year and can’t be trimmed back beyond green growth into brown because they will never regrow from brown and will look even worse. It means they get slightly bigger every year even if properly maintained which makes them an absolute menace. They’re a constant struggle and I hate them so much!
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u/itslonelyinhere 19h ago
Glad I wasn't the only one.
Don't get me wrong, it is satisfying to watch, but ultimately it looks awful. Trimming things down for functional purposes (e.g. when you can't walk by it without it hitting you in the face) is one thing, but for aesthetic reasons just makes no sense to me. This world has really become too obsessed with faux perfection. Let nature do its thing and intervene slightly if it becomes a problem.
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u/Deaffin 18h ago
This is why I'm still a bit resentful that we're in the future now and all the power lines are still above ground.
You can't drive anywhere without seeing a shitload of mutilated trees with their tops cut off. Trees look nice. Trees that abruptly end with a hard line up top are ugly.
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u/ejbalington 16h ago
I used to have a neighbor a couple of streets over that had perfectly trimmed hedges like this. I used to love walking by on my way to school.
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u/Print1917 15h ago
Sure hedges look like that. My hedge is a black widow spider breeding ground that I refuse to get close to and just smack it with a stick when it mouths off to me.
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u/Namesbutcher 14h ago
I tell myself every spring that if I had tools like this my bushes would look this nice. Fact is I find an excuse every weekend not to do the work.
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u/ProperMod 14h ago
Pellenc is the make of the trimmer. This is the first time I have ever heard of them.
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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 14h ago
Having spent time working trimming hedges, I can assure you that this is extremely satisfying!
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u/dasgrosseM 22h ago
Nice piece of nature you're having! Let me just make it look as artifical as possible!
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u/AutomaticAnt6328 22h ago
Is this Bezo's hedge that he happily pays the cities fines to exceed the height limit?
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u/Gracie_Liam237 19h ago
I can't stop watching this, looks like he's playing while working trimming the bush, he did it so perfect and so smooth
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u/EastKarana 19h ago
Okay, so we have hedges and we always paid someone to trim them for us. But this guy makes it look easy. I have never used a trimmer, is it worth a try?
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u/FrisianTanker 19h ago
Am I the only one who prefers more wild and natural looking hedges over perfectly cut ones?
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u/IneptAdvisor 18h ago
Because what you see here one can barely get the same results with a standard Ryobi hedge trimmer haha
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u/UnionJaneAuntSam 17h ago
I just said “oh that’s so satisfying” before even realizing what sub I was in.
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u/DSMStudios 17h ago
every time i see one of these videos, my want to trim hedges grows exponentially. it looks so satisfying
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u/alfazeroneko01 17h ago
If I was as tall as my hedge, I'd have an easier time. They're like 7 feet lol
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u/Willexterminator 17h ago
This leaves such a nice edge on the bush !
Look up "edging videos" for more
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u/Due-Currency-3193 17h ago
That guy could cut my hair. Probably cheaper and quicker that a barber too.
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u/Quirky-Marsupial-420 17h ago
Anyone know the name of those shears/plastic part?
Is that a piece that you can buy that you just put over the blades?
Cleaning up the cut foliage is a pain in the ass and if you don't get it all, you've got dead/brown leaf trimmings in your shrubs a week later.
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u/Late-Significance521 17h ago
It is either a cypress chamaecyparis lawsonaniana or thuja occidentalis
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u/Shrexophone 17h ago
Honestly I think perfectly trimmed hedges are boring and overrated, I like a little bit of chaos in my life, which is why I don't shave my balls.
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u/ApproachingShore 17h ago
I recently trimmed my own hedges and it was basically this but less good.
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u/mark2203- 17h ago
What's the name of that hedge trimmer! I hate hedge trimming but that thing trims a bush like butter.
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u/CyanidePaws 16h ago
Imo this is a mix of satisfying (it's well done and cleanly executed) and not satisfying (imo bushes are prettier when they aren't trimmed)
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u/downwidopp 16h ago
13 year old me would call me today a douche for shouting “Look at that, that’s cleeeeean” while watching this video. What have I become?
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u/DehydratedButTired 16h ago
Honestly that scoop is the coolest part. I have to get in with my hands and clean up all the bushes myself. I gotta get a scoop.
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u/FearlessPressure3 16h ago
I have two of these hedges and I hate them with a passion. They were planted in almost every garden near me in the seventies and more sensible owners got rid of them decades ago. They grow up to a metre each year and have to be trimmed back constantly—you can’t cut back beyond green growth because it will die and never regrow from brown. To keep them this well-maintained I’d need to get them trimmed at least twice a year, probably more, but I can’t do them myself because they’re six metres high. It would cost me over a £1000 a year to maintain them like this which is a cost I can’t justify when I’ve also got to maintain an aging house. I pay to have them trimmed once a year, but it means that they’re looser (which I actually like more) but also means that they creep up in size and width slightly each year. The one in my front garden is about fifty years old now and I can see the various sizes at which it’s been maintained by different owners in the past—I’d estimate I’ve lost well over three feet of width in my driveway because of this incremental growth over the years.
This particular species is an absolute menace and IMO should never be used as a hedge. It’s an unnatural hybrid that doesn’t exist in the wild, it shades and acidifies nearby soil so nothing else will grow and it’s so dense birds can’t nest in it. It has no berries and no wildlife benefit whatsoever. If I could afford it, I’d have both the things ripped out, their stumps ground down and have them replaced with yew which grows more slowly and can tolerate hard pruning. But the latest estimate I got for that was over £10,000 which is so far beyond what I can afford it’s not worth even considering.
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u/stridersomen 15h ago
What a terrible view. You'd think the hedge would be grown to block that road and warehouse
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u/protoklite_13 15h ago
Show me the whole video or show me nothing. Seeing the unfinished parts in the background and foreground left me anxious and wanting more
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u/Schnibbity 23h ago
Damn, that is a quality bush trimmer