Making A Rustic Dead Hedge - Full Episode
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2024
- I've started experimenting with a traditional woodland fencing technique that's over 1,000 years old. It could be described as a bushcraft fence, but I'm definitely using some power tools and non-bushcraft conveniences to get it done.
I get asked about the giant pencil-sharpener tool I use in this video... so here's a link to it: amzn.to/3AA7iSW - and you'll want to use it with a good slow-speed, high torque drill like this one: amzn.to/3oR2BBz I sue when I'm near an outlet, or the DeWalt cordless I use in the video: amzn.to/3LjSPiX - any beefy multi-speed drill should work... just don't try it with an impact driver!
Dead Hedge: A traditional hedge or fence/barrier made by
layering branches, saplings, and debris
gathered from pruning, clearing, coppicing,
and general woodland management practices.
Dead Hedges can provide excellent habitat for insects, and beetles, as well as shelter and feeding opportunities for small mammals and birds. And they generally provide a longer term sequestering of the carbon in the collected biomass compared to transporting, chipping, or burning.
Plus, they look kind of cool as a rustic, natural, and traditional woodland boundary.
Episode Chapters:
0:00 What is Lumbering Shenanigans?
0:52 Introduction
1:45 What is a Dead Hedge?
2:15 Gathering & Stacking Clippings
4:35 Gathering Whole Saplings
8:05 Lunch Break
10:59 Cutting and Sharpening Stakes
12:53 Shaping the Hedges
16:34 Why Dead Hedge?
19:24 Finished Hedge
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A little tip for your posts, if you shamfer the tops(the smacky cmacky end) slightly, it stops the post tops splitting so bad when you melt them with the knocking stick. Also, if possible, make yourself a Holly Beadle, rather than using a metal sledge hammer. Way more effective for knocking in and cheaper, lol. I love that you've had the balls to ditch the rat race and spread your wings. I wish you every success in your venture.
Thank you! Some very solid advice on both counts. And since I already have that staking tool, doing a little chamfer would have been super easy. Next time for sure! 👍
Hell yes! Love the idea of your channel most people posting stuff with your mindset don’t own a forest. I am in your boat where I have a forest and a similar mindset and have been looking for a channel like yours!
Yay! Go us! Forests make the best pets. What part of the world is yours in? And thank you, it’s not easy to stay enthusiastic about the TH-cam thing, so this means a lot. :)
I was going to ask the same thing. What an excellent tool.
I’ve found pictures of dead hedges on Pinterest and it’s been on my mind forever to make some. I have an abundant supply of common buckthorn that needs removing and it would be more useful as a fence rather than waiting for it to get dry enough to burn. I also have deer entering my orchard and nibbling on my fruit trees. I’m thinking of making a very wide one so they can’t jump it.
That’s a great idea. I always pile extra branches and logs on the outside of fences to dissuade deer from trying to jump even a 6-8ft fence. Plus it’s a great way to create habitat and sequester carbon. 👏
That’s a great suggestion for a garden or micro-farm setting, but I have a feeling my canopy is too dense for them to compete with the blackberries. And if they might thrive, I would be hesitant to introduce a potentially invasive self propagating species into such a wild setting. There are some horror stories of holly and bamboo invasions in the area and I don’t want to be that guy. 😏 So dead hedges are probably a safer option in my setting.
Fabulous! loved watched this video. Thank you
So glad! Thanks for watching! I hope you’ll subscribe for more like this when the wether warms up a bit. :)
Beautiful
Looking good
Thanks! 🙏 I’m excited for spring so I can continue with projects like this around the forest. I had a LOT of downed trees this winter, some really huge ones, so dealing with that aftermath will have to come first. Thanks for watching. :)
Thank you for the video! What is the name of the tool that goes on te end of your drill which makes the end of the limbs pointed?
Hi! Thanks for watching. Please consider following. :) That tool is a “staking tool” in the same family as the “tenon tool” I used to make the main gate for Lumbering Shenanigans. They’re both from a company called Lumberjack Tools. Throw a dot com after that and you’ll find it. You need a low speed, high torque drill for best results, but my beefiest DeWalt cordless does a good enough job.
Hi nice video. I am also cleaning my forest now. I will try your idea to build dead hedges . Maybe I ask which tool you use to sharp the log at about 12:24? Thanks.
Thank you! It’s called a “staking tool” from a company called Lumberjack Tools. www.lumberjacktools.com/collections/staking-tool-accessories Thanks for watching and good luck with the hedges! :)
What is the tool that you used to shape the ends of the fence post?
Good question! I put a link to it in the description.
Came here from a Gab post.
I’m not sure what that means, but thanks for watching! I hope you enjoyed it. :)
@@lumberingshenanigans Gab is like Twitter. Your video was posted in one of the groups.