I Made a Deer-Proof Fence for Free (Dead Hedging)

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3 ай бұрын

In which JB builds a fence from sticks. This was done in 2021.
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@jameter21 3 ай бұрын

I love the idea of putting "waste" to productive use. We used our waste old twigs to lay in the bottom of a raised garden bed... Hugelkultur. And, the physical workout sure beats a gym membership!

@ThePoliticalBulldog 3 ай бұрын

It's a relief to me that there are decent people like yourself out there just being goodly for the sake of being goodly.

@nates2526 3 ай бұрын

It would probably add a lot of stability to the wall of you were to tie the pairs of vertical posts together through the fence.

@natecus4926 3 ай бұрын

Great video, I love watching something that is normally regarded as a waste material turned into something useful. We have a similar brush pile in our neighborhood that I grab from to make biochar for our garden and chicken coop.

@equesdeventusoccasus 3 ай бұрын

You could add a climbing flowering vine to the project to make it a living fence. Just be sure it's not kudzu, otherwise it'll take over your entire property while your back is turned.

@GoodandBasic 3 ай бұрын

Genius idea. JB

@wobblysauce 3 ай бұрын

Vines are nice, but you need a cut boundary

@equesdeventusoccasus 3 ай бұрын

@@wobblysauce that's why I said don't plant kudzu. It grows at a rate of about a foot per day. Up or out it makes no difference to Kudzu. There are, however, numerous vines that prefer climbing up over spreading across the ground. Getting one of these would be best for fence management.

@natecus4926 3 ай бұрын

That’s a great idea, or a vining food plant like peas, pole beans, or cucumber would probably be able to use it as a trellis

@mongobongo91 2 ай бұрын

Working on doing the same. Outstanding work! Way to inspire!

@JO-zu3mz Ай бұрын

Love this! Discovered this last year and plant to make one this year

@dhawthorne1634 2 ай бұрын

The advantage of a live hedge being that they don't rot and collapse in 2-6 years.

@GoodandBasic 2 ай бұрын

Yup. They still need maintenance though with a process called pleaching. My initial idea was to use the dead hedge to buy time for a living hedge to grow. Then I moved. JB

@pineberry212 3 ай бұрын

Man, I wish I had a yard and access to that many sticks! I have been learning about southwest pottery from a channel called abdy wards ancient pottery. Id want to do a trench firing. And sonewhat related to that, I learned recently roughly what we know about how terra preta is made, charcoal, pottery sherds, bone. And i think they used the same trench pit to cook, fire terracotta, waste, and maybe did deoxygenated firings for things like iron based paints, which would require burying the fire. I thought you might be interested in trying that yourself. But otherwise, nice fence! You can also always recycle it for hugiculture gardening if it gets too worn down.

@sacriptex5870 3 ай бұрын

1:00 hahahaha

@ivan55599 3 ай бұрын

Dead useless sticks? Good for biochar or carchoal making.

@JSEvans-or5xe 3 ай бұрын

Hi JB, being that people are super litigious and fearful of everything, has anyone complained to you or brought up the possibility of it being a fire hazard?

@GoodandBasic 3 ай бұрын

I never got any complaints while I was living there. The fire hazard is not something I thought about at the time.