Green waste removal/ disposal cork

pegdrums

Hey.

I've read a few old threads here and none seem to help.

I'm planning on clearing a decent size garden. It's extremely overgrown. For exams the neighbours tell me there's a swing in the garden. I havent seen it due to the growth. 15 years of neglect they reckon. There's a green house to apparently.

Point is how will I dispose of all of this?

Trees,brambles, and vines of some sort. Lots of vines.

A mulcher and a skip would work but that's big bucks. For example I cleared just the side passage and that filled a one tonne skip bag!

Do the council do a collection for a fee or are there companies that collect green waste?


Many thanks for any advice or help you can give me.

Rows Grower

pegdrums wrote: »

Hey.

I've read a few old threads here and none seem to help.

I'm planning on clearing a decent size garden. It's extremely overgrown. For exams the neighbours tell me there's a swing in the garden. I havent seen it due to the growth. 15 years of neglect they reckon. There's a green house to apparently.

Point is how will I dispose of all of this?

Trees,brambles, and vines of some sort. Lots of vines.

A mulcher and a skip would work but that's big bucks. For example I cleared just the side passage and that filled a one tonne skip bag!

Do the council do a collection for a fee or are there companies that collect green waste?


Many thanks for any advice or help you can give me.

Buy a goat and close the gate.

Lumen

What size is "decent"?

magicbastarder

pegdrums wrote: »

A mulcher and a skip would work but that's big bucks. For example I cleared just the side passage and that filled a one tonne skip bag!

you'd be amazed at how little space all the vegetation would take up once properly mulched. and you can hire a shredder; but the issue could be access, if it's a back garden.

looksee

Agree about the mulching, but if you just cut back the top growth and stack it all in a heap it will quickly reduce by at least 50% in volume.

Lumen

I try and keep all organic material on site as a matter of policy. The only exception is Cordyline leaves which are unshreddable and uncompostable so get taken to a green waste centre once a year.

If you're talking proper large quantities of overgrowth, e.g. over 100sqm, you're best off getting in professionals with heavy machinery and a big towed shredder. Vines and brambles are hellish to deal with using hand tools.

An even better idea is to get a quote for full landscaping to grass, since that's also difficult to do DIY.

Get a fixed price quote and let them get on with it.

But maybe hold fire chopping any trees down until you can see....the wood for the trees.

I adopted a piecemeal approach to a similar clearance exercise and it ended up consuming vast quantities of time, money and blood. I still have the scars.

pegdrums

Rows Grower wrote: »

Buy a goat and close the gate.

I might rent one.

Anyone else have any ideas?

pegdrums

Lumen wrote: »

What size is "decent"?

Roughly 50 sq metres

pegdrums

magicbastarder wrote: »

you'd be amazed at how little space all the vegetation would take up once properly mulched. and you can hire a shredder; but the issue could be access, if it's a back garden.

It is indeed a back garden. I was thinkibg if mulching and then disposing of it in stages but that could take an age.

Any good rental places in cork for a mulcher?
Any idea of a price?

Lumen

pegdrums wrote: »

Roughly 50 sq metres

Ah right, That's small enough to clear DIY if you have the patience, but it depends what you're dealing with. It took me a whole weekend earlier this year to clear about 10sqm of particularly viney hedge.

If you're using hand tools I'd suggest slash hook, secateurs, a quality pruning saw and a mattock.

When you have it piled up, rent a diesel chipper, mulch it all and pile it up in the darkest corner for use later.

magicbastarder

do you mean 50 metres square, or 50 square metres?
if it's 50 square metres, the overgrowth must be extremely impressive to have lost a swing set and greenhouse in it!

pegdrums

magicbastarder wrote: »

do you mean 50 metres square, or 50 square metres?
if it's 50 square metres, the overgrowth must be extremely impressive to have lost a swing set and greenhouse in it!

I'll have to claim ignorance as to the difference there sorry.

Lumen

pegdrums wrote: »

I'll have to claim ignorance as to the difference there sorry.

50 square metres would by 10mx5m, 7mx7m, etc.

50 metres square is 50m x 50m.

macraignil

Lumen wrote: »

Ah right, That's small enough to clear DIY if you have the patience, but it depends what you're dealing with. It took me a whole weekend earlier this year to clear about 10sqm of particularly viney hedge.

If you're using hand tools I'd suggest slash hook, secateurs, a quality pruning saw and a mattock.

When you have it piled up, rent a diesel chipper, mulch it all and pile it up in the darkest corner for use later.

I'd include a heavy duty secateurs called a loppers for cutting larger stems, a good clippers for cutting away lighter growth, a garden fork for moving and digging and a very solid pair of boots in the list of tools to use. If the overgrowth is cut up and stacked away from the house it can rot down over time itself if you have the patience.

pegdrums

Lumen wrote: »

50 square metres would by 10mx5m, 7mx7m, etc.

50 metres square is 50m x 50m.

Cheers. Yea it's about 50 square metres.


I have tools to do the work with it's purely disposal.

I'm reluctant to.leave it in a pile and let it rot. Ideally I'd like to have it gone. Just not in a 300 euro skip is all.

I'll get a photo up tomorrow

greenmandave

depending on where you are in Cork
Bandon, Bantry, Rafeen, Kinsale road, Carrigtwohill All take green waste,

maybe borrow a trailer !!

pegdrums

greenmandave wrote: »

depending on where you are in Cork
Bandon, Bantry, Rafeen, Kinsale road, Carrigtwohill All take green waste,

maybe borrow a trailer !!

I would but no towbar on the Micra.

Thanks again to all for the advice. Looks like were gonna nust go with a skip. We've a few odds and ends need chucking too. Healys do a good size one for 230 quid. I'm just worried the whole thing will drag on forever otherwise.

pegdrums

If it's of interest to anyone the garden is cleared.
Main tools were macchettis, rakes and shears and a few willing mates to help.

7 cubic yard skip took everything plus the skip bag full of cuttings from the side passage done previously. 280 quid from mulcahys skip hire. They were great to deal with. Highly recommended.

One photo is from back in November

pegdrums

If it's of interest to anyone the garden is cleared.
Main tools were macchettis, rakes and shears and a few willing mates to help.

7 cubic yard skip took everything plus the skip bag full of cuttings from the side passage done previously. 280 quid from mulcahys skip hire. They were great to deal with. Highly recommended

pegdrums

If it's of interest to anyone the garden is cleared.
Main tools were macchettis, rakes and shears and a few willing mates to help.

7 cubic yard skip took everything plus the skip bag full of cuttings from the side passage done previously. 280 quid from mulcahys skip hire. They were great to deal with. Highly recommended

Can't seem to upload pics.....4mb limit it says

Rows Grower

Wasn't Japanese Knotweed was it?

New Home

I really, really, REALLY hope it was Russian Vine, or something even less invasive...

pegdrums

So do I! I'm trying to find an old pic of the vines in flower but quite sure it wasn't knotweed

pegdrums

pegdrums wrote: »

So do I! I'm trying to find an old pic of the vines in flower but quite sure it wasn't knotweed

Any tips on uploading photos? Can't get it to work

New Home

If you have them saved somewhere, you can add them as attachments, but you have to click on "Go advanced". You should then see a paper clip icon. Click on that, select your file, then scroll to the right of the pop-up box and click on "upload". The file should appear as a link just under that, before the list of uploadable files. Select that link and copy it, then close the box. On thread, then, if you want to embed the image, click on the picture icon, remove the extra http:// and paste your link. Click on "Post" (or whatever) underneath the text box, and and there you have it, it should work.