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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Rowly Hill on December 8, 2011 at 17:32

On site until 3pm and it was windy but dry up until then and good progess was being made.

Heavens opened and that curtailed the activities for today.

Pressure washing tomorrow so the weather won't bother me - hopefully the wind will be behind me though!

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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Dan Frazer Gardening on December 8, 2011 at 17:38

Winds up here are tornado force, scary stuff. Top of Cairngorm summit recorded 165mph earlier...that's almost the highest wind ever recorded in the UK (173). Nasty weather front swirling like a massive tornado with the most compacted pressure system right over central scotland. Just wonder what the carnage will be like tomorrow.

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Permalink Reply by Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt on December 8, 2011 at 17:43

When my boy Graham stepped round the corner from the pressure washer he returned to a smashed slate on the ground exactly where he was standing 2 mins before!  Job done, all home safe.  Re-sanding the next dry day.  He got home to his own fence down, just missed neighbours car!

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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by andy@ Doughty Garden Maintenance on December 8, 2011 at 17:57

Very windy here today, rain held off until I'd nearly finished thankfully. Still managed to prune one large apple tree and take some big branches off another. Was abit hairy being up the trees with wind like that even though they wasn't particularly high! Kept the chainsaw helmet on all day just incase.
When I'd finished there I drove to my manor house job to check on the trees there. The sideways rain started and soaked me in seconds!
Quite exilerating being out in bad weather I think!

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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Claire Brown on December 8, 2011 at 18:31

Had the builders where I was working today make several comments to me about "aren't you getting wet" etc, so as i'd managed to weed all the borders needed, I did give up 1/2 hr early. - Now got to brave the dark and winds to drive to a WI group to give a talk on Winter colour in the garden. - May have a fairly empty hall to talk to.

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Permalink Reply by Philip Blair on December 8, 2011 at 18:35

It was wet here in Northern Ireland up to 9am but mostly dry after that. Very windy but i spent the day at hedges anyway, day 2 of a 3 day job. Hopefully get it finished tomorrow.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Bates on December 8, 2011 at 19:23

Have been working, cutting fire wood, cleaning low level gutters, working with the wind to aid in leaf gathering!!, bit of hedge cutting and boarder tidying. I actually managed to cut a customers lawn today without making any mess, can't believe its still growing.

I'll work in most conditions unless it's non stop rain or snow, pretty much writes everything off in my book.

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Permalink Reply by Mark on December 8, 2011 at 19:24

Luckily working inside today as a customer is fitting air sourced heat pumps to a workshop and I was laying all the plastic pipe for the radiators.

Cheers

Mark

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Permalink Reply by jamie stevenson on December 8, 2011 at 22:01

We have been planting 35 large privit for a hedge first thing that took us up to lunch after that on our nextsintenance job we were cutting back annual shrubs on a large property we look after basically we got soaked today and blown around

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Permalink Reply by ken stewart on December 9, 2011 at 20:42

cut 7 lawns today and got another 5 calls for grasscuts next week latest ive ever cut lawns.

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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Gardens4u.co.uk on December 9, 2011 at 22:46

i did one last week -   latest ever in 10 yrs !   i never cut grass before in december in my whole life -

ken stewart said:

cut 7 lawns today and got another 5 calls for grasscuts next week latest ive ever cut lawns.

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