Gentlemen, I salute you! A wonderful job and providing a hedge that is attractive, stockproof, and one that will benefit wildlife.

That hedge looked fantastic, and the boys themselves are doing a fantastic job regarding conservation, good on em.

Pretty smart to grow the materials you need for a fence, windbreak, corral right where you need it, and make a living fence out it of it.

Beautiful video, makes me home sick. I’m a Suffolk boi living in NSW Australia, used to love a bit of hedge laying. Miss all the old world stuff!

Somerset God’s county. A few years ago we used to attend agricultural shows selling walking sticks,shepherds crooks, thum sticks. We met some lovely people and had a good natter.

Amazing. Great lesson with historical knowledge thrown in. Working with nature to provide artistic structure alongside the road. Thank you, Rob, for another entertaining video.

I would love to see this in the US. Even hedges for your garden would benefit wildlife and be beautiful.

Very well presented with good content, thanks for the video.

I like the way nature does this on its own. It doesn't make mistakes.

What a craft. I found this so interesting Rob. Thank you.

Wow! Really BEAUTIFUL Rob, thanks very much! Love the artiness and filters. My husband has had a go at making a very small fence with some hazel we have chopped down from our tree. Your video makes me want to try harder to make mine better - thanks for the inspiration and excellent content.

This is so much better than barbed wire!

Rob is a really good documentary film maker. This is actually one of the few documentaries I've watched in the last few years that did not annoy the hell out of me with hyperbole and background music. This one is well made, informative and upbeat. It is also a fine example of the lost art of neutral reporting.

very interesting video, thanks Rob

Very nicely done Rob!!

Production value of this episode is very very high 🌱❤️great video

Stunning and inspiring. Underground streaming looks like flowing crystal... (I'm surprised as all music coming in this video too

Very comfy and English video! Thank you Rob

OMG, how coulld I miss this one? Im happy I found it

Lovely little video, I love the series landrover!

This is one of the most fascinating things I’ve seen on KZfaq in a while!

Really wonderfully well done!

This is brilliant Rob. Spotted some locations from the famous Tourney epic as well as from the other local film Hot Fuzz. Will share with the EH Environment Group - this is bang on topic for them!

Hedgerows in WW2 Normandy, were so intense that not even tanks could drive through them............

Very interesting. Thankyou. 🙂👍🐦

Brilliant vid 👍🏻

Another lovely and inspirational video - heard the cuckoo in the background 👍

It's been a while since I've heard birds chirping in the beautiful countryside. I really need to leave the city more often (but not now, of course!). Thank you for the peaceful video. Not only did it make me look forward to summer in these bleak times, but it also taught me about something I had always wondered about. I never knew there were so many different styles of hedging!

Love the hesdges

Awesome!

Excellent to see and learn more about the art of hedgelaying. If only they werent over or undermanaged so badly.

😳 wow! Just wow!

At least you have a hedge to work with

Sir, I salute you very informative and interesting short clip, I think I will subscribe

I'd go for a hedge that's about 3m wide or so and dig the soil up on either side to form a soil bank raised up, like the Devon Style of Hedge, then from that grow the relevant hedge tree-shrub saplings eg Hawthorne (varieties), crab tree, wild cherry, holly etc and intersperce with hardwoods eg Ash, Oak, Beech, Sycamore and if they'll grow Chestnut. You'd want Copses and Coppices alongside fields too to be honest and hedges connecting up. All fields with wire fences alone and these thin living hedges is not good enough though the living hedge is x100 better than the wire or no hedge. Yes it would take up a fair bit more land but you'd create more robust wildlife belts and the raised earth acts as a superior barrier for live-stock. You'd still need to do a bit of Somerset hedge-laying style to thicken it up with the shrub trees but then you'd leave the hardwoods to grow as large and thick as possible over coming centuries: Nothing better than a hedge with a corridor inside it for wildlife (large and small), a raised bank both micro-niches and barrier to live stock and then thick with mature trees, bordering on a small forest corridor in the coming centuries. Note the abundance: Wildflowers and herbs along with berries and nuts apart from all the wildlife and game. Bear in mind the wider thicker hedge itself returns the loss of land in investment for centuries to come for both wildlife and foraging and visual aesthetics - back after the WWII the small fields had a lot more hedges (see German Aerial Photographs) due to smaller working farms so more biodiversity and more sustainable for the people working the land eg seasonal food eg hedges! Great video and I hope you welcome the above ideas and information above. You know what's nuts, is large commercial farms for food production for an economic system that is split from the local area and the local people - and the lack of hedges and small fields and loss of inefficiency in production - because that's where Nature and Sustainability fits in. If there were natural stone or rock available I'd be inclined to add a bit of that and mix it into the hedge also, part barrier and part additiona feature in the hedge that wildlife takes over eg slugs and snails which in turn feed glowworms and so on... Also thrushes would eat the slugs and snails also and then you get all that birdsong at dawn chorus and dusk evensong apart from nesting sites or hair corners...

I love the Noggin The Nog style commentry

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now It's just a spring clean for the May queen Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run There's still time to change the road you're on

A couple of years ago, wolves were reintroduced in the Netherlands and they are now killing farm animals rather than wildlife so now I need to find a good way to protect my animals and that’s why I thought a hedgerow surrounding the field could be a good way to keep predators out and the cows in. Only problem is we don’t really have a hedgerow tradition in this country. So if the hedgerow is, say 15 years old and I neglected it during most of that time and the trees and bushes have grown really tall and wild, how do I fill the gaps and what kind of maintenance is needed every year, or will the cows do the maintenance? I am looking forward to dome answers, thanks in advance!

Down on the levels there is a hedge row made of Fuchsia bushes, often wonder if it is still there

Where can you buy the tools you need bellhook ect thank you

To England, to the English, we love you, never perish

What is "flaying" ? Is that using power tools?

10,000 miles? Hard to believe.

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12:17 Glastonbury Tor?

I guess you can't use chainsaws for this type of work. No automating for this work?

i just saw a 1942 video on this topic

Hey thats cheating with those chain saws schould all be done with hand tools bill hook i think and ax

Ya had me until the hardhats came out...

Wtf are you wearing hard hats for? You’re not working on trees, not working at heights, nothing aerial going on……

What a load of bollocks. PS, the land rover is a modern one masquerading as an old one to avoid paying road tax.