Laying a large hedgerow to the style of Yorkshire. This style was and is still layed. It is layed for the crop rotation not to place stock in the first few years; arable only.
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End of Season Workshops
Video clips of the workshop hedge that was finished this April. Inspection of the hedge for nests by walking the length to layed How to put the binders on and finish.(Still Photo) The back of the hedge .
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Conservation Hedgeing
A short video of an idea put into action by the cattle farmer who was totally sick of having large gaps in his hedgerows He invited me to come and see it in action and see the results and regrowth. I know a lot of the hedgelaying poeple out ther will be very abusive about this […]
Read MoreHedgelaying Techniques
This Video is showing some Hedgelaying techniques with a chainsaw and hand tools.
Read MoreRe-growth of coppice
A short video ofprevious seasons’ re-growth
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Two videos that I took explaining how to increase the coppice without planting.
Read MoreNorton Workshop
The hedge was a quick and planted by the landowner, the planting was of a single row spaced about a foot apart. The students were very enthusiastic even with the frost. Only hand tools were used. The style of laying the hedge was in the southern style, for the trees were planted a little too far […]
Read MoreBasic Midland Binding
Above is a video of the Midland Style binding. It does not show the stake tops being cut, they are chamfered cut to mirror the pleach This method I found it to be an easier way to learn binding. When you have mastered this way you can and probably learn different methods. This way of binding […]
Read MoreMisson Pinfold Hedge
The hedge I have just finished, a large hawthorn last layed more than sixty years ago. The hedge is the boundary of a pinfold on sandy soil, for the village of Misson North Notts. There were some very interesting techniques in the laying of this hedge. First the trees were very dry and brittle and I […]
Read MoreTraining Workshops for hedgelaying
As a professional hedgelayer and comitted to keeping the craft alive, I hold training workshops. These workshops are for the beginner and are a basic learning of the craft from choice of wood to binding. There are differrent styles of hedgelaying depending where you live in the world, yes the world. Here in South Yorkshire the […]
Read MoreEnd Finish
These two video are what you can do when you are finishing a length of heder that ends at an entrance/exit of the field
Read MoreHedgerow Management
Pleaching or Plashing or Ligging! What are these terms. I will start with Plashing. Plashing is a term used for hedgelaying in and around the Notts area of the country. Pleaching is a term for the cut stem of the hedgerow tree that is being layed. Ligging is the term used in the North West of […]
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