BTCV hedgelaying course

[Lyn Ed]

nice pics there ledders, what style laying is that, ive been looking for courses in south wales but havent found any, if anybody knows of any please let me know, but i think im running out of time now with the nesting season coming soon

[ledders666]

yeah i got mine in just in time, start of march is nesting i think. That is the midlands or standard style hedge

[rcarolina]

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?

[Treeworld]

I know that stretch of Bewl water, we did some just up from that about 6 years ago did you look at it, were you with Martin Atkins?

[ledders666]

 

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

 

If thats a big hammer, then yes.

[rcarolina]

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.

 

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.

[Danavan]

Work of art. Nice one. An art that needs to be re kindled:)

[arbwork]

Brilliant 1st effort well done, be careful when pricing to do hedge laying you need to cover the supply and transport of stakes and binders and also the chipping, burning or removal of arisings, we have charged a similar ammount, all the best for the future laying .