Hedgelaying... rates, costs, profit?

[csservices]

£7.00 - £12.00 per metre, usually average out at 20 yards a day big hedges are usually quicker especially if gappy as you can cover 2-3 yds laying one tree, biggest thing most people do with overstood hedges is to take too much out before they lay them, best to take out just enough to free it up and make it handleable and then gives you more choice of brush left to work in rather than ending up with a hedge which is mostly trunk

[Dorset Hedgelayer]

with out pictures hard to say. If you removed all the large stuff then only had 1 pleacher per 5m to lay it wouldnt have taken long. theres plenty of variables

[Woodworks]

with out pictures hard to say. If you removed all the large stuff then only had 1 pleacher per 5m to lay it wouldnt have taken long. theres plenty of variables

 

Large stuff removed and stacked for owner but multiple pleachers per meter on one side but a bit thin on other averaging about 1 every 2m. The time went in dealing with the big stuff and some largish dense hazel stools. Can probably get some picture as we have plenty more to do.

[hedgesparrow]

attplace your only in newport get yourself over to morten in the marsh this saturday the 15th hedgelaing comp. get some pointers on how a hedge is laid midland style not my norm but doing it. you may if you ask a cutter near to you who be willing to show you the basics for a day be worth it as hedgelaying is not as easy as it looks get the pleach wrong and it will snap as graham says if its old thorn as brittle so need care pleaching. there are many who say they know who no little and a few who know a lot more than a little.

so its cotswold conservation board waverton(cotswold stud) moreton in the marsh signed from A424 starts 9am be some good cutters working.

[teepeeat]

Pity I'm away at the moment else would have been round to Morten in the Marsh.

The NHLS web site is a bit short on local match info - none listed, so where else can we find this sort of info? Must be some sort of list of competitions, demonstrations etc - regional and national. Seems odd for the national society not to list them?? Or is eveybody out laying hedges

[hedgesparrow]

hi facebook hedgelaying and coppicing group those members who know of matches do put them up thats how i knew of the cotswold match from a member also the NHLS can only put on there pages what is sent to them if it is not sent in then can not put on page

just read my other post does not make sence should read there are those who think they know a lot but know little and there are those who do know a lot because they do

Edited November 10, 2014 by hedgesparrow

[Dorset Hedgelayer]

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