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I did some hedgelaying in the Southern Counties style in 2008 with BTCV. the site was at Bewl Water and was to rejuvenate a really knackered old hedge. I really enjoyed it - all material sourced locally through coppicing etc and mainly hand tools used for everything. You really get a sense of achievement from producing something that has a real structural form yet remains 100% natural.

 

The big question though is did you use a godonker for getting the stakes in?

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Treeworld – yep Martin was the group leader, spent most of the time cooking up soss wages and black pudding. We did see some other hedge work but it looked pretty shoddy and nowhere near as good as ours.:001_tt2:

 

Seriously, we basically finished the last sections of a longer stretch that had been done before and was in place and still doing a sterling job.

 

Ledders – yep, you’ve got it a big wooden hammer made out of a y piece of something heavy – think it was Hawthorn. What they used to use in the old days to settle rural disputes.:001_smile:

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