Bushcraft Skills: 1000 Year Old Traditional Technique Axe, Saw, Billhook
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Date: 2022-01-29
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Tim
my grandfather always laid the truck the other direction, towards the cut, that helped protect the stump He also said it was preferable to catch the saplings while they are small enough they could be bent over without needing to be cut, and staking the top end down in contact with the ground, ideally to bare earth. Some types of undergrowth (he mentioned hazel specifically) you can cut the finger-sized shoots, cut them after the first leaves have emerged. point the end, and drive it down into the ground as a vertical post much like you did, but because you harvest them after they've sprouted, they're more likely to re-root itself and become a living fencepost. some will die of course, but some will not; over the course of a few years, you can get your whole hedge staked by such fenceposts.
it was an annual thing for him to work his hedges. he would try to get out while the thin shoots were still very thin and whippy because you can re-weave those back in, to create an interwoven and much more solid portions once they've grown thicker and gained strength. An old hedge can be SO strongly re-woven, that it would take a great deal of effort to work thru it if you wanted to cut it. Adding wild grape vines, will naturally grow into the lattice, interweaving itself naturally.
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my grandfather always laid the truck the other direction, towards the cut, that helped protect the stump He also said it was preferable to catch the saplings while they are small enough they could be bent over without needing to be cut, and staking the top end down in contact with the ground, ideally to bare earth. Some types of undergrowth (he mentioned hazel specifically) you can cut the finger-sized shoots, cut them after the first leaves have emerged. point the end, and drive it down into the ground as a vertical post much like you did, but because you harvest them after they've sprouted, they're more likely to re-root itself and become a living fencepost. some will die of course, but some will not; over the course of a few years, you can get your whole hedge staked by such fenceposts.
it was an annual thing for him to work his hedges. he would try to get out while the thin shoots were still very thin and whippy because you can re-weave those back in, to create an interwoven and much more solid portions once they've grown thicker and gained strength. An old hedge can be SO strongly re-woven, that it would take a great deal of effort to work thru it if you wanted to cut it. Adding wild grape vines, will naturally grow into the lattice, interweaving itself naturally.
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Hensley s
That s pretty cool, the hedge rolls, they, the farmers, could keep livestock in the fields and the hedge roll would keep them in. I think the hedge rolls over in France were more established than the ones you all had there in Britain, the armies had to destroy a lot of them just to get through and keep moving. Anyhow, awesome stuff Mike. You were saying something about the BBC, well we get quite a few BBC programs here on Saturday s usually, starting with my favorite show and the longest running show in the world I think? That s Last of the summer wine, absolutely great old show, and then after that is Hyacinth and Keeping up appearances, then As time goes by, and then my second favorite show Open all hours and Still open all hours! But great shows all of them!
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That s pretty cool, the hedge rolls, they, the farmers, could keep livestock in the fields and the hedge roll would keep them in. I think the hedge rolls over in France were more established than the ones you all had there in Britain, the armies had to destroy a lot of them just to get through and keep moving. Anyhow, awesome stuff Mike. You were saying something about the BBC, well we get quite a few BBC programs here on Saturday s usually, starting with my favorite show and the longest running show in the world I think? That s Last of the summer wine, absolutely great old show, and then after that is Hyacinth and Keeping up appearances, then As time goes by, and then my second favorite show Open all hours and Still open all hours! But great shows all of them!
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Bonnie
Great vid! I remember my first attempt at hedge laying, Some success but mostly a learning exercise. I bet your farming neighbor will regain some very valuable land thanks to your hard work! Great to see the old man, but he is going to have to start fighting for more air time and less hard work! This woodland was a great purchase, content rich and just be careful the greenie meanies don't suck you into their socialist wet dream. Stick with tradition and tried and true endeavors.
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Great vid! I remember my first attempt at hedge laying, Some success but mostly a learning exercise. I bet your farming neighbor will regain some very valuable land thanks to your hard work! Great to see the old man, but he is going to have to start fighting for more air time and less hard work! This woodland was a great purchase, content rich and just be careful the greenie meanies don't suck you into their socialist wet dream. Stick with tradition and tried and true endeavors.
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Xero1of1
It looks great! The only comment I have is to remember to leave some openings in the hedge so a person can walk through. Maybe every 100' or so. I understand that you don't need to, but thinking of future use and people walking through, it'd be good to leave them some space so they don't make their own way through the hedge. Also, deer will often choose the easier path to take. so if they can just walk through a hedge rather than jump over it, that's what they'll do.
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It looks great! The only comment I have is to remember to leave some openings in the hedge so a person can walk through. Maybe every 100' or so. I understand that you don't need to, but thinking of future use and people walking through, it'd be good to leave them some space so they don't make their own way through the hedge. Also, deer will often choose the easier path to take. so if they can just walk through a hedge rather than jump over it, that's what they'll do.
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Othniel
Your love of and respect for the woodland is obvious and inspiring. Yet, the part I find most wonderful is that you get to have these great experiences of work and and creativity all with your Dad. My prayer for you is that you grow ever more grateful for such moments and that they inspire you in the hope of future such adventures with your son or daughter as you pass along a family love of nature.
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Your love of and respect for the woodland is obvious and inspiring. Yet, the part I find most wonderful is that you get to have these great experiences of work and and creativity all with your Dad. My prayer for you is that you grow ever more grateful for such moments and that they inspire you in the hope of future such adventures with your son or daughter as you pass along a family love of nature.
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Ed
Thanks for this video. My only frame of reference for hedgerows is various war references. I had mistakenly assumed that these were just groomed yet naturally occurring. This method of building illustrates why these would be so treacherous for advancing forces. I read once, for a new idea read an old book it's curious how tradition and and technological advancement tend to seesaw and recirculate.
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Thanks for this video. My only frame of reference for hedgerows is various war references. I had mistakenly assumed that these were just groomed yet naturally occurring. This method of building illustrates why these would be so treacherous for advancing forces. I read once, for a new idea read an old book it's curious how tradition and and technological advancement tend to seesaw and recirculate.
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C.
I enjoyed watching that.
Haven't seen it done locally for decades.
This autumn, one of my customers wanted their overgrown boundary hedge laying.
Like yourselves, to secure the garden, but more importantly to create a better wildlife habitat.
Looked it up online for tips and techniques etc, and set to with it.
Now awaiting the spring to see the results.
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I enjoyed watching that.
Haven't seen it done locally for decades.
This autumn, one of my customers wanted their overgrown boundary hedge laying.
Like yourselves, to secure the garden, but more importantly to create a better wildlife habitat.
Looked it up online for tips and techniques etc, and set to with it.
Now awaiting the spring to see the results.
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sara
Fantastic video guys, I haven't seen hedge laying like that since i was a teenager some 35 years ago. If you have any willow in your woodland cut some lengths and just push them in the ground where you have any gaps of growth in your hedge, it will take root in the spring and start filling the gaps and with new growth witch can be laid and platted in the same as hazel.
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Fantastic video guys, I haven't seen hedge laying like that since i was a teenager some 35 years ago. If you have any willow in your woodland cut some lengths and just push them in the ground where you have any gaps of growth in your hedge, it will take root in the spring and start filling the gaps and with new growth witch can be laid and platted in the same as hazel.
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Damien
Of all the hedges iv seen in my life il never look at a hedge the same again.
Here in Wales there's lots of beech trees (prob a hundred years or so old) that seem to have grown in peculiar ways but after watching ya vid i can tell they were hedge layed, but coz of lack of management they grew into very interesting and majestic shapes.
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Of all the hedges iv seen in my life il never look at a hedge the same again.
Here in Wales there's lots of beech trees (prob a hundred years or so old) that seem to have grown in peculiar ways but after watching ya vid i can tell they were hedge layed, but coz of lack of management they grew into very interesting and majestic shapes.
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Pup314
In New England we never built hedgerows. We didn't need them because of the glaciers we had tones and tons of rocks and boulders to place and use in free form stonewall. Stone walls without mortar. To this day whenkiling here you will find paritally dismantled walls of stine with rubble n either side caused by frost heaves over winter/
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In New England we never built hedgerows. We didn't need them because of the glaciers we had tones and tons of rocks and boulders to place and use in free form stonewall. Stone walls without mortar. To this day whenkiling here you will find paritally dismantled walls of stine with rubble n either side caused by frost heaves over winter/
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