I was really pleased with how this hedge turned out, I've even had a few compliments from people who have seen it from the road!
Doing a hedge is pretty easy once you get going, easy as in it's fairly easy to keep moving forward with it. But it is hard graft - some of the hardest I've done. Chainsaw helmet, chainsaw trousers, heating your whole body up. Thick gloves and long sleeves, fighting big branches of the hedge, unhooking each upright from each other, pulling them down, welding an axe and chainsaw all day. It feels great. I've been doing it again today and my whole body aches, but I know I'll sleep well tonight!
I've got about another 13m to do tomorrow (today by the time you read this) and I'm excited to get it done! No grant money, no one paying me, but it seems the right thing to do to steward the land in this way.
Anyone else still got some hedge laying to do this year?
Reminds me of my childhood in Somerset, they laid hedges this way all the time.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be coming back more with the grants available now.
DeleteIt looks good, it's stockproof, it's natural and it's going to be a living wall and a natural habitat for insects and wildlife.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave, yep and nothing bought in, so only my labour has gone into it.
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