Cut the hedge

The hedge that runs across the back of the house is about 40m. It used to be kept in shape by the cows that lived here before us. I've always cut it back every spring. When we planted the fruit trees we measured the planting holes from the hedge. It was last year that I realised that something was up. The NW boundary had grown and got hacked back a good way. Now it was the turn of this hedge. Removed around 1m in the NW corner and around 1.8m in the NE corner. More cut and scratches than I care to mention.