some hedges i have laid

[Martyn Amos]

some very nice work on here guys....:thumbup::thumbup:

[hedgesparrow]

cracking job some big old stems in there and with the road. but looks a nice job.

looks like there are some good cutters on this site i am still a novice so learning a lot still and its good to see the photo,s.

happy for anyone to pick the bones out of my hedges. the big old one was my first proper hedge i laid on my own. and was in at the deep end. wish i had some more expiarance before i tackled that job. what i know now would have done it different and made my job easy.

keep showing your hedges nice to see

Edited January 1, 2013 by hedgesparrow

[Martyn Amos]

cracking job some big old stems in there and with the road. but looks a nice job.

looks like there are some good cutters on this site i am still a novice so learning a lot still and its good to see the photo,s.

happy for anyone to pick the bones out of my hedges. the big old one was my first proper hedge i laid on my own. and was in at the deep end. wish i had some more expiarance before i tackled that job. what i know now would have done it different and made my job easy.

keep showing your hedges nice to see

 

we all have to start some where,when i was up brecon for 6 months,i had never done any hedge laying before,i was just clearing out at 1st for the boys to come behind to do the laying,after a few weeks watching and taking mental notes i was laying my own sections and did enjoy it:thumbup:

like i said in the thread previous,it was only basis work (for doormice)

[digga]

im still learning but hey you never stop would still class myself as a novice that job took longer to do than 200metres on another job and it was only 60 metres some of it had gone up 3 metres above 2 phone cables and had to section bits down with a polesaw and some of the stuff i had to cut out had to be roped over away from the road not forgetting some of the bank you could hardly stand up on no 2 hedges are the same

[hedgesparrow]

did you do it on your own. trying to stand on that bank and try and lower them trees. is a job no wonder it took a long time.not like virgin hedge. it sometimes is better to work on difficult hedges you hen appreciate the good hedges which you do not see many of. by the time you get asked to lay like yours more trees than a hedge still good fun

[dexta]

Digga .That's a cracking good job, would love to see more of that around here.more specific for stock proof fencing I guess

[hedgesparrow]

laid hedges have a number of advantages over one left and flailed.

its is good for keeping stock in and saves the need for normal fencing.

its is good for wildlife, songbirds can get in to hedge to nest and be safe from predators also there is the fruits from the hedge at autumn time. game birds can find cover in the bottom of hedge for the same reason to nest.

its stops wind scour on fields so will save the top soil being blown off with ditching any run off will go in ditch helps the hedge with nutrients. and can then be dug out to put back on fields. hedges are good for the envioronment like the rain forest but on a smaller scale.

but a laid hedge is not just for agriculture it looks nice even in garden enviorment and does the above job. so hedges are so important to save and maintain, and not left to become old and gnarled from years of the flail. and then die due to rot and infection so are the grubbed out maybe not to be replaced

[digga]

did you do it on your own. trying to stand on that bank and try and lower them trees. is a job no wonder it took a long time.not like virgin hedge. it sometimes is better to work on difficult hedges you hen appreciate the good hedges which you do not see many of. by the time you get asked to lay like yours more trees than a hedge still good fun

 

yes some of it was very awkward on the bank not small stuff to lay but all done by myself even the stuff that had to be cut out and pulled over away from the road with a rope just used truck in field as anchor point fiddle block set up on tow hitch conect it to the rope up in the tree with prussik loop and i can pull it over from the stump after making the cut

[muttley9050]

Beautiful work people,lovely to see.