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Squirrel when tree young?
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Lay it !
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Gate to go with hurdles, own oak and hazel. Put my new planer/thicknesser to good use
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Good question. I don't exactly know the answer and have never done accurate enough trials to work it out. Devon hedges on a bank often remove 80% of the top growth. I work on the theory of removing the top to the same % I have cut through the stem, so remove 75% of the top if I have cut 75% of the stem, particularly with big old stuff which is very brittle. My tip of the day, if cutting old big stuff leave until you have "mouse ears" , little leaflets, the sap is rising so the stem is less brittle.
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BHHA "skills of the Hills" tomorrow. Anyone going?
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We could eat most of the grain fed to chicken and pigs, just wouldn't be such a light loaf like unleavened bread
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Type of puff ball I think.
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Looks very similar in design to one I have but mine is a different brand, certainly does not have the green logo on it. For what it is worth mine has been fine on a Doosan 85, will not cut 300 but I do not know what pressure mine generates. Mine has a removable blade which is handy as can be used as a grab for scrap or pulling brash out of ditches etc. Structurally is fine, 250 mm cut in willow is about its limit.
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You need to make sure your pleachers cannot get blown out of the hedge, hence differentethods of securing them. Crooks in Devon ,different types of staking in different parts of the country. I use string round to make a bundle on stuff I do on the farm but remove string in a year. If you are not exposed to the wind you can do nothing.
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Looking good. Important to pleach low as your regrowth will come from the stump(which you have done) Use your axe or billhook to lever over the pleacher so it splits into the ground, not up the stem(Hakes tooth). It will still grow but has more to heal over so let's in more disease. Looks excellent for first attempt
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lovely weighted billhook I apprehended from my new neighbour. Wired brush on grinder and then fine flap disc. Don't want to do anymore until he gives it to me! Had to stop him using it as it was in an awful state. Does anyone recognise make?
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If I could grow chestnut I would use it!
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Double laying is the next level. Competition next! Depending on species and strength of regrowth most of your pleachers will be dead in 10 years. You are reliant on regrowth from the stowell for the long term hedge. If you have big plants lay down hill, filling gaps is the main aim. Pictures please, for you and us!
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⁸ 6 done 1 to do and a gate
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No, they're not that good😄
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New project, hazel hurdles to divide garden
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I have an axe head identical to your miners axe. How it got to us I have no idea, couldn't be father from the mines. Put a handle in it but found it a horrible thing to use, kept twisting if you did not hit dead square.
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Billhook
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Ours are giants, put couple thousand miles on them with few issues
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wife and I have gravel bikes, brilliant for touring, can add a little luggage and set out for a week. or use as a road bike. Only lycra I have is a Friesian cow coloured top!
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Is it not saying that the spade is suitable for "digging" as the other pictures in the group show different uses for the spade.
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You were on the bit looking over the valley with the great view. 👍
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A devon hedge is laid as 2 "combs", one on each side of the bank making the side of the bank more square, stopping sheep climbing onto the top. The bank is a major part of it being stock proof. ThThe hedge can be only 18in high. Th soil is "thrown up" into the gap covering parts of some of the "steepers" which will then root and regenerate the hedge. They claim their style to be the only truly regenerative one because of this. On the moors the gap on top of the hedge allows shepherds to walk on top of the bank to look for sheep in snowdrifts!
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I think that's much more than 15 years since it was last cut. Interested to know where in the country, the Devon boys would love to have a go at it as long as they had a digger to throw the bank up afterwards. You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear but at least you will rejuvenate it and have a great sense of achievement when you finish!
