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Hedge Laying, Coppice Products & Garden Maintenance

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What I Offer

Hedge Laying

The best and most traditional way to rejuvinate hedges and to keep them growing strong.

Coppice Products

Products for crafts or garden projects, all sourced from sustainable land management.

Garden Maintenance

Keeping gardens neat and tidy, or managing gardens for the benefit of wildlife.

Why Use Our Services?

As a craftsman and conservationist, I can provide extra services or advice, and I’m always looking for ways to improve what I do.

My methods are always in keeping with my ethics; minimise pollution and pesticides, and to help nature where I can.

I take pride in my work, using crafts and traditional methods to conserve nature, produce sustainable British grown products, and to preserve traditional crafts.

Email: mercianwoodsman@outlook.com
Call: 07899987506

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Nothing about work for once! Recently had some time out including a trip up to the dales. I took more photos than were probably necessary of the falls at Ingleton on a very nice walk. Hedgelaying isn't just hedgelaying! On this particular hedge just over the border into Shropshire @theraredairy the overstood hedge is providing firewood for the farm, and they've kindly given me permission to take some wood for making clothes pegs, and I might find the odd walking stick in here. This hedge is really going through a transformation from overstood stools of hazel and tangles of dog rose and holly, into a revitalised boundary. It'll will go on to provide amazing cover for small mammals and birds, of which I've spotted blue tits, and a robin who just keeps hanging around. I don't usually post two photos of the same hedge, but this section was a bit of a beast to get built tight, unfortunately the amount of material on this length will make it difficult to get a good thick build all the way along. On this part though, I had to add a little pin to hold the larger pleacher in which finished it nicely. On to a really nice stretch of hedge for the next week or so. This was in need of getting back into rotation as it was becoming more like a row of trees than a hedge. I'm also trying out my old @husqvarnauk carpenter's axe, to just pop the pleachers over. I'm also getting on nicely with the @stihl msa 200 battery saw, but I'll post about that another time.