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  1. organic guy
    Graham I have a friend who wants some lessons and I am worried I might tell them the wrong thing! If you were teaching a novice what would be say 5 rules which would apply to all styles? Guy
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    How much of a sin is it to allow/cause the pleacher to split into the ground rather than bend over without splitting?
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    Our second lockdown hedge, most of the thorn is dead, was very thin at some point as full of rails, but now mainly blackthorn. Mrs OG is my gopher and keeps me up to the grind stone! Will post some finished pictures but can,t see it due to the pile of waste.
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    The delight we get when we do this hedge,this little chap turns up everytime.
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    a picture of the wife and my "lockdown hedge". Only posted it after hearing you guys talking about loving the regeneration of an old overgrown hedge. This is one we let grow up for CSS expecting to get grant money to relay. We was stitched up but it still needs doing. Not been done in at least 50 years, love finding old pleachers buried under the trash at the bottom. Will be a style unknown to you experts, "North Wilts modified", big bale string to hold in place, pleachers laid "so a lamb cannot get underneath" as told by me Dad. The main thing is "regeneration" of the old plants, all planted in about 1860.
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    I wear top half of an old thick cotton boiler suit and welders arm protectors. Do a brilliant job of stopping all the scratches and pricks!
  7. organic guy
    The said hedge is 15 miles away in the Cotswold water parks, so overlying gravel.
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    Gimlet Many thanks for your comprehensive reply. I will pass on to the neighbours and see if I can get them to leave it alone. What is your mix of species in your area, I think of Dorset as been lighter soils than here in the Thames valley, but I suspect the livestock areas are as much clay as we are.
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    gents, really nice to see all the activity on here, partly makes up for there being no competitions this year. I had promised myself I was going to do the local ploughing match after prevaricating for 5 years so really fed up. What is beech like to lay/ My MIL neighbour has planted a beech hedge and my wife has offered me to lay it? How young would you dare attempt it? TIA Guy
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    Sulphur polypore I guess? are they worth eating?
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    No, not allowed by her in doors to stop on the bike for long enough. Got to take my exercise but at least I'm allowed to take it places I enjoy! It's not actually an avenue but a grove in an open part of the park near Cumberland House. Did not stop long enough to read all the plaques under the trees but certainly some interesting shaped oaks and leaves.
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    having searched the internet for details of this avenue went to Windsor Park today on my bike and stumbled across this. Mystery solved, another trip planned for the autumn to go guerilla acorn hunting! Came across this oak hit by lightning recently. The park was awesome.
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    We have engineered boards in our kitchen, been down 7 years. I think we were given the choice of 3 grades. Chose the middle grade few knots, 2 or 3 boards have knots which should have been filled but not a single board filled as in your picture. afraid I do not know the brand. OG
  14. organic guy
    Rabbit or Hare?
  15. organic guy
    Smart job! Is that all hand cut? I have been asked to teach someone and whilst I know all the principles I am worried that I will miss something essential. Can anyone give me a top 5 list of essential rules? TIA OG
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    Eastrop Farm

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    Clean wood chip and chipped leaf. No logs please.
  17. organic guy
    My first competitive attempt at the Cotswold AONB competition
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    VI Thanks for this brilliant topic. I have read it all and enjoyed it and learnt loads. i am an organic farmer with a passion for trees and hedges, hedgelaying being a hobby. I gave my wife 600 acorns for Christmas a few years ago, 7 different types which I have planted in a field corner. My retirement plan is to buy some neglected woodland and to build a shepherds hut to stay in while my wife swims in the sea! If anyone knows of 10 acres of woodland for sale within half an hour of the Devon or Dorset coast let me know please.
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    ripeur 2s are brilliant, keep out blackthorns when hedgelaying!
  20. organic guy
    Getting rather annoyed, so I went and searched for a likely book and luckily found the right one first time! Peter Fiennes "Oak and Ash and Thorn". Grove of oaks planted on 19th June 1937 to commemorate coronation of George 6th by Commonwealth representatives. Contains Quercus coccinea, Q.acutissima, Q.palustris, Ilex,sessilflora,macrocarpa,libani,robur,hispanica,macranthera. Now all I need to know is where in Windsor park? Can't find it on any maps or google.
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    I cannot believe that no-one on here knows where this is, I am beginning to think I dreamed about it!
  22. organic guy
    I believe it was planted after WW1, different species of oak for each country, I thought in Windsor park or surround but cannot find anything on google. I read it in a book, I can,t even find the book now!
  23. organic guy
    I,ve stalked on here for a while but this is my first post. I am an organic dairy, beef and arable farmer with a passion for trees and wood. recently bought a chainsaw mill and have replaced a 12in oak beam on shed. Also have two sons who make furniture as hobby. I planted a oak wood two years ago with 7 species of oak and have some spaces which I would like to fill with different species. I read of an oak avenue which I believe was planted to commemerate? the commonwealth soldiers of WW1 and wanted to visit but cannot find out where it is.Can anyone help? TIA Guy

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