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Ken Hume
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Post Dead Hedging
on: February 13, 2013, 08:06
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The Orchard Barn project in Suffolk has recently sent us details of their use of "dead hedging" to create boundaries and I wonder if this is a practice employed in Oxfordshire and elsewhere in the country ?

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Sarah Partridge at Orchard Barn [ http://www.orchardbarn.org.uk ] thinks that this is a good way of using and tidying up brash.

What would be the benefits or draw-backs from using this technique ?

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Post Re: Dead Hedging
on: July 3, 2013, 22:51
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Dead Hedgeing is an excellent short term boundary if have seen it used by park rangers to force people to use paths instead of cutting corners. it has fantastic value to wildlife it does however only give protection for about two possibly three years. I would recommend that a native mixed species is planted on the south and west side of the dead hedge which should give you a boundary for years to come. If any one has cleared Holly understory from established woodland this makes excellent dead hedge and if you clear carefully you will find plants for you new hedge growing in the leaf litter.

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Post Re: Dead Hedging
on: March 21, 2022, 17:41
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A good way of clearing the clutter of conifer / beech branches littering the woodland floor is to build a dead hedge. This one was built by Suzi Williams in December 2019.
The dead hedge (not a Grand National jump !) stops people falling down a steep slope that forms the back of an old quarry.

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Fast forward to Mar 2022 and we find that Suzi Williams features in Living Woods magazine (pp12-14). This can be downloaded for free at :-

https://livingwoodsmagazine.co.uk/files/2022/03/LW62-Spring-2022FINAL.pdf

The hedge that Suzi made for OWG is still standing and occasionally we top this up with windfall larch branches.

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Suzi is now a fully fledged coppice worker.
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Post Re: Dead Hedging
on: June 9, 2025, 17:34
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A dead hedge really needs decent stakes to support and hold the hedge in place and so quartered (cleaved or sawn) DF / WRC / EL /SC / OK would be ideal.

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The dead hedge will likely be topped up year after year and so non durable hazel stakes would not be a good choice.
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