Hedgelaying pics

[csservices]

Yep was a good 8-10ft wide when I started as you can see in the pics lot of brash out of that length

[digga]

thorn can get brittle when it gets big making it more challenging allways a good feeling when you have taken some of the top weight out off it lay it over and get it to stay on the pleach some good work shown in the hedgelaying threads

[csservices]

This is some of the one i did on site at Mansfield this week 3 short runs in the same hedge, with willow binders, the unlaid bits are coming out as its where driveways fall on the development.

[hedgesparrow]

got the photos of the hazel hedge on phone but will not sync to pc but some good cutters doing some good hedges. not your virgin hedge but real old hedge. and as digga said got to be careful with old thorn as brittle. chain saw and sharp side axe to finish. but got to get it untangled from the other stems first.

nice to see different styles from around the country.not much time left and that be it untill september. enjoy laying hedges. and have to say doing them in winter in some ways is better if it was a summer job be a hot job to do. still got a demo hedge in may at sparsholt to lay. see if i get someone come along and ask to buy the hedge so they can plant it in garden:blushing:

[csservices]

Last one of the season, should have been another one to do but the snows put paid to that, this was a second lay hedge on roadside, nice and young makes a change

[sandspider]

Todays little job

with a very light dusting of snow, I was tucked right down in the valley away from the direct winds thankfully

 

Nice work. Possibly a stupid question, but why lay the hedge so low? Why not lay it to say 3 foot high, so it's still high enough to work as a hedge?

I guess it's because the bottom was so gappy that you needed to lay it low so it thickens up right from the base, rather than giving a nice thick hedge from 3 foot up but gappy at the bottom stilll...?

[hedgesparrow]

its dorset style and it is laid majority of the time on a bank dorset will say but maybe a drop other side were road is. the style i lay south of england we lay 4ft most of time as on flat ground. and tie in with stakes every 18inches then bind the top to keep it firm see your from somerset down your way lay flatish on bank cross bettween dorset and devon style. the more east you come and it get flatter then south of england takes over. to kent and up to just south of oxford then midland upwards with different styles either side.

there are 16 main styles with aprox 30 sub styles based on the main ones.

trust this helps and ccs service is i believe is derby style different again. bit of a treck but nationals is worth going to to see all the main styles being laid in bucks

Edited September 19, 2013 by hedgesparrow

[hedgesparrow]

pics of hedge i laid south of england 30ft hazel with barb and stock fencing grown in.and was cold when laying 700mtrs on top of a hill with snow flurries never been so cold laying a hedge

[sandspider]

its dorset style and it is laid majority of the time on a bank dorset will say but maybe a drop other side were road is. the style i lay south of england we lay 4ft most of time as on flat ground. and tie in with stakes every 18inches then bind the top to keep it firm see your from somerset down your way lay flatish on bank cross bettween dorset and devon style. the more east you come and it get flatter then south of england takes over. to kent and up to just south of oxford then midland upwards with different styles either side.

there are 16 main styles with aprox 30 sub styles based on the main ones.

trust this helps and ccs service is i believe is derby style different again. bit of a treck but nationals is worth going to to see all the main styles being laid in bucks

 

Got ya on the diff styles, thanks.

 

Still wondering though - in this case, when not laying on top of a bank (which would provide at least part of a stock boundary) is there a reason to lay it so low still? Besides trying to encourage growth at the very base? Just sticking to the Dorset style...?

[hedgesparrow]

can not say south of england we lay ours low and build up as we go along as needs to be stock proof as most styles need to be. in comps for our style will get docked points if we have any gaps as such which a lamb can get through