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UPPERTHWAITE HEDGELAYING SOCIETY · FILM

A bullock hedge, laid from start to finish.

Our winter film follows one stretch of hedge in the Midland style, from the first look along the line to the last binder. Use the chapters to go back to the cut you want to see again.
Filmed over three days in February on forty metres of overgrown hawthorn at the society’s practice ground.
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CHAPTERS

Seven stages, 26 minutes

  • 3 MIN

    Reading the hedge

    Which stems to keep, and which to cut out

  • 4 MIN

    Clearing the bottom

    Brash, bramble and dead wood out of the way

  • 6 MIN
    Featured:

    The pleaching cut

    Angle, depth and the hinge that keeps each stem alive

    Most replayed
  • 4 MIN

    Laying and binding in

    Bringing each pleacher down along the line

  • 3 MIN

    Driving the stakes

    Hazel stakes every 45cm, set on the brash side

  • 3 MIN

    Heathering the top

    Twisting long hazel binders along the stakes

  • 24:30 2 MIN

    Trimming and tidying

    What to leave for the birds, and what to burn