We finally got our back hedges done. This happened about 2 weeks ago. Thanks to Damien for the ladders and doing one side and Tery would did the other side. I dragged the branches to the back and made a huge pile. It was about twice as big as the photo (that was already halfway into the burning portion of this job). The pile was as high as the lattice on the back fence and all the way to the compost bins. One weekend we spent trimming and the next weekend was for burning. Tery made a huge fire and we burned those branches for 6 hours, after we were done the pile of ashes was ginormous. We checked it today, one week later, and in the middle of it were red hot burning coals. Crazy.