Hazel and Chestnut

[digga]

i really enjoy and find it very rewarding with coppicing to be able to take it full circle from cutting the tree down then making the fence materials and finally put it up in a fence or just using the hazle binders in a hedge laying job

[mattplace]

Nice work digga! I love that cleft fencing 3rd pic down!

[Pat Ferrett]

Your a bit of a dab hand at that mate . Is it a full time thing of does it just act as a fill in ?

[digga]

jammydodger u should have fun with your coppicing and let your imagination come up with a few intresting things

[the crafty weasel]

Some of the stuff I do from coppiced materials- Because the coppice I'm working with is neglected, the stuff I make are usually one offs. hopefully I can make some more standard products once the coppice is better maintained.

 

 

 

 

[APC]

Some pucka produce there! I'm liking the hedgelaying a lot!

[digga]

some nice stuff there crafty i should take more pics of some of the stuff i do.

jammy i started of coppicing when i was still at school was taught a lot of old school stuff from guys who had been in it all there lifes true crafts men started learning how to make all the stuff then help out an old guy i knew who did fencing i try make all my own chestnut materials 90 percent of my work is coppicing fencing and hedgelaying

[Cracker]

Really nice work Digga! I do a few SC hurdles for "second home owner" types down here in Devon:001_cool: I just wish there was more SC growing round these parts.

 

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[John Russell]

I just wish there was more SC growing round these parts.

 

So do I! Not much hope though on the wet, heavy clay of central Devon. Still, at least we can dig ponds without having to put liners in them. Can't have it both ways!

 

Very nice work, BTW!

 

Best wishes,

 

John Russell

[Cracker]

So do I! Not much hope though on the wet, heavy clay of central Devon. Still, at least we can dig ponds without having to put liners in them. Can't have it both ways!

 

Very nice work, BTW!

 

Best wishes,

 

John Russell

 

Yep! It's great for building with.

 

 

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Thing is, SC does grow fine on clay for small diameter. There's a few mature trees in the woods next to ours, we collect the nuts. I'm seriously considering planting a load on our land, it's such a resource as round poles.