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It's a lovely job to stand back and look at once it's done, gives great satisfaction, but is hard work at the time! There's lots of courses out there you could do if you still wanted to learn, or just offer to help a hedge layer, chances are they'd say yes.

@cantstandlazyskanks I used clips and behind the glass is a rubber gasket to stop it from rattling.

This is times new roman. Basically I like anything with a serif, it gives the chisel somewhere to start and finish. I'd say serif fonts were probably created with carvers in mind. Also lots of straight lines make it fast and easy, so look for those.

@@ericharris4834 you want to see the talking I cut out...

Thank you! I've done one young hedge (that I planted myself) and a few repairs. I'd like to carry on with this one, go further along it, but it might not happen this year.

Haha, no worries. That other big greenhouse by it was such a nightmare to put up because we only got it once it was down. Dad came and helped, along with his apprentice at the time and I swear we all broke down and cried at different points during that day! Lol! Greenhouses are not an easy foe! Good luck! Let me know how you get on.

Thanks, I'll look it up!

Yeah, having the ability to use the materials around us is so important. There's an old abandoned house near my mum and dads I want to do a video on in the spring. What's amazing about it is everything would have been sourced from the woods right by it. We need to do more of this really.

And me! I'd like to carry on down this hedge if I get the chance, but not sure I will.

Haha, a method my children know too well.

I've not made one, but have seen them in use. I think they work well in a woodland setting or similar, here they'd bee good near to where the brash is, but as that rotates each year it might mean a lot of walking with it. I'm hoping this will be good for wildlife, Ideally I want some hedges at all stages of the laying cycle, some laid, some a few years on, some needing to be cut, some ready to be laid, but it's going to be a while until I get there.

Thank you!

Thank you.

Thank you for your kind words. I may do a video having a walk around the footpaths here and all the hedges that are just disappearing, the one has nearly gone in the time we've been here (13 years) and the little bit that was left was drove over to make a new way through for a tractor (gateway 30 yards up from there anyway). Luckily there's a few area like this around here with hedges being laid though, normally on a grant. I've not applied for anything (don't want anyone inspecting what I do), but do it for my own enjoyment. It feels good to go back and look at it. Can't wait to get it planted up.

@ yes that would be an interesting video. Just watched the oak tree video, there’s a few years of firewood there! lol. I do a bit of wood carving so I can appreciate a good lump of wood.

@Phils-sticks-carving-bonsai I love a bit of woodcarving. I have a fair few videos on here about it! I may grow mushrooms with some of it as have so much firewood already!

@@englishhomestead I’ve only just found your channel today so I’ll go through and take a look at the rest of the vids.

My trouble is I have so much firewood ahead of me already, I worry if I cut this up now there will be nothing left by the time I want it (I have little undercover space), I may use some for mushrooms I think!

I've tried in the past but never had much success. Maybe I shouldntry again. I find prunus much prefers budding to grafting, and even then I think my technique needs work. I think trying with some quince would be fun on the hawthorn as my quince tree never produces enough to do anything with!

@englishhomestead another idea would be to contact some local fruit tree nursery if they have grown rootstock that did not take the grafts, i work at a nursery in Germany, we are always happy when someone takes some Apple seedling rootstock or st. Julien plums, pear seedlings, some we graft again at crown level but most of them end up as wood Chips.

@MrBrznak that's a good idea. I used to buy a few hundred a year and graft them myself as a hobby that covered it's costs, but I haven't done it lately. Maybe I should get some in anyway. I enjoy a bit of grafting, although I'm slowly running out of places to squeeze trees!

I have quiet a few now since this video was done! Two with bees in, but many more ready to go for a busy season!

@ mead!!

@@estebancorral5151 It will be on the cards! Last year it was more about keeping them alive! I got wax from old frames I bought, but no honey yet!

@@englishhomestead Good because I remembered that Friar Tuck was was an excellent mead maker and could hold his own against the assaults of Robin Hood.

Yeah, you could be right. I'd still strip the bark just to be sure though. I've not had any grow when I've done this in the past. Maybe I should do an experiment.

It's such an emotive subject, so my brother is a tree surgeon (or was, he no longer does that work) and he loved stihl, but many prefer husky saws, it will depend a lot on the type of work you're planning to do. Dad still has his old stihl Farm Boss from 40 years ago and my brother used to still take it on jobs. For me it's a perfect saw for hogging logs and doing this type of work. But I've not tried that many models, but it's never let me down.

Thank you! It was a nice job to look back on.

I did an odd hour here and there, to break it up, but probably not even a couple of full days, although I haven't cleared up yet, and I think that will be the most work! For the binders I used everything I could find, some willow, some hazel and even some cherry saplings that were growing in the coppice! Anything that would bend.

@@englishhomestead they way it would have been done years ago I'm sure.

@hollowfarmsmallholding yeah I'm fairly sure they would ahve used what they have. The guy who taught me was separating everything out kf his hedge as we went to use again, unfortunately this one just didn't have much that was usable so had to get it from elsewhere on the smallholding.

the hedge I laid a couple of years ago? I'll do a blog post on it. And maybe a short video, it's looking good though, it's come back strong.

I'm going to chip everything (although just broke my tractor on Thursday so there will be a delay) I had thought to move it over to the garden as paths, but this might work well as well. I've laid a few hedges now, but the last one was one I planted and it laid so easily compared to this.

Thank you!

@@MyTing775 yeah, with the correct species of tree.

@drefhill so I try to pick the moment when the most of them are ripe, but I've also found they ripen well off the bush. I pick them and leave them to soften, this way I get loads more than the birds without netting.

@hubby-tubadventures01 so this is a mix of different hybrid willows, that are used for firewood, I put in a mix as I wasn't sure what would grow well here. It turned out they've grow pretty much the same rate. One was called Q83 and the other Chinese. If you have a look at some of the sites selling it they give out their attributes. I'm going to add a patch of willow for weaving this year which will be another mix I think. What you put in will depend on your site and rime scale, hazel does make a great coppice as well and produces wood that is arguably more useful, but cut on a slower rotation (every 8 years), the willow loves the wet and that'd why I went with that here. Willow will only burn well in a good high efficiency stove as burns a bit too fast in an open fire. Poplar can be grown for firewood as well. Someone in a comments mentions that's what they do and their is a new hybrid that grows super fast.

@GigidyGigidy_EIRE and me. Sometimes I'm put off because I think everything has to be perfect. I did this hedge last week and I'm going to share it Friday. It's not perfect but it's so much better than it was!

I've just been looking at getting plugs for the logs, but hadn't thought about doing it in the wood chip. When you say a lens shaped pike, how do you mean and what sort of size? I may just do this!

Thank you. The most important thing is to finish with the same number of digits and limbs as I start with.

My safety regime is to stop chain sawing when my mind starts wandering. I always used to wear the helmet, the Kevlar chaps, the gloves... yet lately I've stopped doing so. It takes as long to put them on, sharpen the chain, fill up the machine than it does to do the actual chopping. Silly of me I know.

@VanderlyndenJengold I'm obsessed with making sure I don't hurt myself. I ran my thumb into the bandsaw before Christmas and the hassle it caused made me think no way would I have any slips like that again. With the chainsaw, the petrol one especially, it happens in an instant.

Ah thank you, I'm always really worried about posting anything with a chainsaw on here. I've had no formal training with them, but used to work with my brother a bit who is a tree surgeon and grew up on a farm where we used them loads. Hopefully not too many bad habits. I'm good at putting the chain break on, which I think is one of the main things and I never use one without ppe, even for just a little job.

It's 36v, so two 18v batteries. The editing probably makes it look more powerful than it is. The key is to not push it and it cuts really well

@ Great. Thank you.

@@radharcanna I have a video on my channel reviewing the saw somewhere.

I've looked at them! Maybe I should, I've been doing a lot of hedging lately (well bits) and it would be perfect for that as well I imagine.

Yeah, I think some will be destined for something like that. Be great to use some like that. A cleft gate and fence down here would be awesome.