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Hedge layingCame across a hedge laying competition yesterday, stopped and had a nosey, turned out one of the chaps was local and is now going to give me a few pointers one weekend on how to lay a hedge
Some people had traveled over 150 miles to attend, and I doubt any of them were younger than 45, wonder if it gets to the stage where no one is doing it in the future? |
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| bernie-woman |
Re: Hedge laying
I do hope not  - we do a lot of hedge laying around the nature reserve that I am involved in - it is something I want to have a go at myself properly - I keep meaning to go on a course
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| cab |
Did hedge laying with the BTCV; can't claim that I ever became good at it, but its something that isn't hard to learn, and with some practice I'm sure that anyone can do it. I don't think its a craft that'll be lost, and if anything theres more interest in it now than there has been for years. | ||
| tahir |
WEe've got an article on it somewhere | ||
| judith |
Re: Hedge laying
Last year we had some fencing put in by some chaps who do hedge-laying in the winter and fencing the rest of the year. One of them celebrated his 73rd birthday while he was working here! |
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| judith |
As if by magic... |
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| mochyn |
The old chap had an afternoon's hedging with our neighbour two weekend ago, working on part of one of our hedges. the neighbour is only (!) 37 and has won awards for his hedging. He travels quite a bit to enter competitions. As well as running his farm he does lots of hedging and fencing with his brother. They've asked the old chap if he wants to work with them occasionally. If only there was enough money in it for him to take them up on it!
The old chap really enjoyed it and found it satisfying. he bought himself a second hand refurbished Bilwg last weekend! (Takes quite a bit to get his hand into the same pocket as the money...) |