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Green Rosie
Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 9122
Location: Calvados, France
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 Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 1:03 pm Post subject: We laid our hedge |
 
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We started with this on Friday morning:
and by Sat afternoon we had this:
and 12 people who helped us have now learnt the basics of hedgelaying |
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Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 23897
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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Looks great!  Is there much hedge laying done where you live? |
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Andy B
Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 3883
Location: Brum
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice, leaving it a bit late though, wasn't the sap rising? |
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Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
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Location: Patchshire
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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Looks grand!
A. |
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Northern_Lad
Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14194
Location: Somewhere
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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Just a little bit neater. Nice work. |
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Gosh, thats a lovely bit of hedging! Well done! Was it getting sappy? |
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kevin.vinke
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
Posts: 1304
Location: Niedersachsen, Germany
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Looks really good wish I had a hedge now lol |
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 23449
Location: mid-Wales
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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Tidy! |
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vegplot
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 18991
Location: On the circuit at Ty Croes
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent. Impressed. |
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Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 26503
Location: York
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice, want a job? |
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Green Rosie
Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 9122
Location: Calvados, France
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Rob R wrote: |
| Very nice, want a job? |
OH never turns down the offer of work .......
Thanks for all the positive replies - a few of the branches were just breaking bud but I think we were just in time.
Over the next few days we also have 1000 hedge plants to get in - anyone fancy a hedge planting break in Normandy?
As for hedgelaying round here - it's new to the French - they tend to butcher their hedges round here but they all seem impressed. Next year, when we lay the rest of it we hope to get french people here helping as well. Time to find out what hedgelaying/binder/pleach etc are in french |
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Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 26503
Location: York
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Green Rosie wrote: |
OH never turns down the offer of work .......
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It wasn't an offer, it was a challenge  We have about a mile of overgrown blackthorn & have given up on laying that stuff, slash & burn is by far the better policy.  The hawthorn laying is a bit more sucessful, but the stems are a bit further apart in places so it'll need a few years regrowth before it can be re-laid to make a job as good as yours  |
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pookie
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4913
Location: Mid-Wales
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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looks great!
My OH has just done his 1st laying of hedge too! He came home shredded!  |
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gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18208
Location: Scotland
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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Very impressive. |
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 23449
Location: mid-Wales
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 08 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| pookie wrote: |
looks great!
My OH has just done his 1st laying of hedge too! He came home shredded! |
Was that the one down the lane from you? We need pics... |
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