This Hedge Has Been Baptized!!! / Hedge Cutting Like You've Never Seen Before!!!

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4 жыл бұрын

Hedge cutting work gone crazy. The hedge has been through a baptism and the efforts of the hedge laying are starting to show. This is hedge cutting like most people have never seen before.
There are many benefits to laying a hedge ranging from practical, physical to environmental.
Cutting the hedging low to the base of the plants stimulates an abundance of growth to shoot from the base of the hedgerow and all along the laid stems and branches which in turn will boost and enhance the overall health of the hedgerow plants.
Laying the hedge will also allow allot more light into the base of the hedgerow and the surrounding area. This extra light brings obvious benefits.
Laying a hedgerow will also provide a substantial physical barrier not just in a natural way but in a very presentable and tidy way too.
Then there is the benefits to nature itself, laid hedgerows are very important habitat to a vast number of flora and fauna. Providing a source of food, shelter, breeding and nesting habitat.
hedgerows are also fantastic carbon sinks that remove toxins from the atmosphere and store carbon in the ground.
The work laying this hedge has been exhausting at times but also very satisfying. To look back on several hundred meters of baptized hedgerow after hours and hours of hard graft, sweat and blood is a great feeling. Not to mention the fact that I am just blessed to be working in such a nice environment.
These hedge laying videos are purely to document and share my personal experiences as a hedge layer on this job.
These hedge laying videos are in no way a guide or instruction to hedge laying or the tools, methods and techniques used in hedge laying.

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@HedgehogChopper 4 жыл бұрын

that hedge wasn't baptized, it was butchered, the pleaching is of the lowest order, there's no build to the hedge and the stuff you need for the build is laid out in the field, in fact Id go as far as saying a helicopter crash would have made a better job what you have done is not hedge laying, its bonfire building

@PeculiarFinds 4 жыл бұрын

Can't disagree with you. When you got more than a lifetimes worth of hedgerows to crash your helicopter into you got to experiment with a few different ways of crashing it hey 🤣. Crash site Nevertheless it still qualified for the rural management plan. As for the brash, on this farm its viewed better to chip it and reinvest the stored energy where possible than to burn it. So yeah, all that lot had to be chipped 😩 .

@stevenmcculloch375 4 жыл бұрын

@@PeculiarFinds if you laid it into the hedge it wouldn't need chipping.

@loonyranger 4 жыл бұрын

You obviously have no regard for the hedge or the craft at all. Why not just do it properly from the start rather than the complete pig's ear of a job you've done? No use to man nor beast but, hey, it qualified for the grant. Jesus is there no shame!

@HedgehogChopper 4 жыл бұрын

@@PeculiarFinds what do you call a lifetime worth? I employ a couple of lads and we did 17k one winter on the M6, M56, & M61, that was all chipped and i find one bonfire probably less polluting to the environment that a diesel engine working away for days

@farmersimonk 3 жыл бұрын

Well done. Getting the job done to a standard where you and the farmer are happy. Funny how the purists complain. Looks good to me. It's better than flailing it.

@loonyranger 4 жыл бұрын

What can you say. Hedgelaying of the lowest quality. Sorry but that is not hedgelaying.

@alexrogers4349 4 жыл бұрын

Some friendly advice this is not to criticize but to help you improve. Judging from this video the standard is far from professional. Not shure why you cut the pleachers In half don't do that please. You have just butchered this headge. Because you have the headge is far to low and you have nothing to create a build with. It should be around 3f 6 high. Looks like you need far more stakes wich should also be around 3f 6 or a little more. Practice your pleaching cuts and make shure they are right down low. This ensures there is now gaps under the pleachers and helps achieve an even build. It is more akin to splitting the stems down the grain rather than chopping or cutting them and simply pushing them over. However you need to ensure that you have severed through enough material to ensure that the split runs down the grain instead of up it. This only comes with practice. Get yourself a decent billhook to do this with. Cutting with a chainsaw or severing through the stem with a billhook must start at a shallow angle to the stem. Most importantly check out the National headgelaying association they are a great resource. Attend a training course by you're local association and if possible see if there is a local professional who can take you on for a couple of seasons to show you the ropes. When you have done this you can think about entering a competition. It is a great whay to test your skills against people who are also learning and a great way to pick up pointers from the judges and professionals. I am no expert but I have done a little work with professionals in Somerset. Unfortunately they dont do binders in Somerset so I can't help there. Hope this helps and please seek some training and advice. Happy headgelaying.

@PeculiarFinds 4 жыл бұрын

This is some appreciated and inspiring information, thanks. I certainly have a long way to go and a lot to learn. I have to say this is not normally how we do laying. I am realizing There is a lot left up to assumption due to a lack of information from just a few clips of video chucked together. Its a shame it cant be made out very well although at the very beginning of the video there is an example of some normal unbutchered hedging we did the previous year. All 4.5ft, pleached lovely, nice hazel stakes every meter with lovely binding just behind the metal gate. Due to a number of things this stretch ended up being somewhat experimental to say the least and not the usual practice. You can rest assured pleachers are not removed under usual conditions either 😆. Thanks for the positive input, Cheers Alex.

@surreyarborist 4 жыл бұрын

I am aching just watching this. Is it a quoted job or day rate?

@PeculiarFinds 4 жыл бұрын

😆It certainly conditioned the body a bit, that's for sure. Usually this kind of work is paid on quite a healthy day rate although in this case the circumstances are slightly different to the normal. ~There are three farms all owned by the same guy in the area that have several lifetimes worth of hedge laying to be done alone. ~Many acres of 20yr old woodland that needs thinning, coppicing and management, a lot that can be done any time of year. ~Plus I need to stay flexible for other work, life and commitments. Weather can also stop play and often does in the colder months. ~With the ultimate advantage that none of what I do has a detrimental effect on the daily running of the farms means that none of the work I do there is particularly time sensitive . So with all these factors taken to account we negotiated a fair and comfortable hourly rate done on and honesty basis. I love it, turn up when you want, do the hours you can/want, middle of nowhere, hardly ever see a soul. Stop when you want, No one to answer to, hand in the hours when I want paying. Really couldn't ask for more hey 🤗

@surreyarborist 4 жыл бұрын

@@PeculiarFinds that farmer top bloke then.

@PeculiarFinds 4 жыл бұрын

Proper proper genuine farming family with an affiliated understanding through and through. Not one of these post war engineers that bought land after the war to claim government subserdies , meanwhile destroing the ecology and environments with little to zero respect or understanding of actual farming and a hunger for easy money that we now suffer the effects, corruption and offspring of all too much today. 😉

@PeculiarFinds 4 жыл бұрын

Another week of hedge laying in the English countryside.

@louisabendall108 3 жыл бұрын

Malcolm Bendall what have you done impressive row of sticks but that int hedgelaying why have you cut all the brush off and what's the point of a row of stakes with a abloody great gap between the binders and your row of sticks and another thing man stop bloody moaning you've got somebody banging your stakes in and clearing your brash and some wuzzock is paying you for that mess your a lucky man man