What is a hazel hurdle?
Natural Fencing’s Hazel Hurdles They are robust and hard wearing and create an effective windbreak. Hazel hurdles create a truly natural setting for any garden from the country garden to urban space. We also manufacture oak framed hazel gates to compliment your hazel hurdles.
Can you bend hazel hurdles?
The star performer in making a hurdle is really the hazel itself – no other wood grows as straight and even with fibres that are so splittable and bendable. A fully formed hurdle makes a useful screen which can be used as a windbreak or creates an attractive visual barrier.
How do you coppice hazel?
Harvesting coppice
- clear all leaves and other debris from around the base of the stool.
- cut away any dead or dying stems.
- cut the most accessible stems first gradually working in to the centre of the stool.
- make sure all the poles are felled in the same direction.
Can you weave with hazel?
Serious wood weavers are attracted to species known for their usefulness and productivity. Common hazel, Corylus avellana, will mature into a multi-stemmed tree, 15 to 20 feet (5 to 6 m) tall when allowed to grow freely.
How do you prune an overgrown hazelnut tree?
Trim out center branches, and shorten low laterals. In the spring, remove suckers that are growing up through the canopy before they harden. Head back trees into 3- and 4-year old wood to stimulate new growth and maintain production in old, crowded trees (Figure 4).
How long do hazel hurdles last?
10 years
Hazel Wattle Hurdles can last up to 10 years! In addition to making the hurdle panels, we can also cut and supply the posts used to secure the panels to and fit these on your behalf.
What are hazel rods?
A hazel rod is supposed to protect against evil spirits, as well as being used as a wand and for water-divining. In some parts of England, hazelnuts were carried as charms and/or held to ward off rheumatism. In Ireland, hazel was known as the ‘Tree of Knowledge’, and in medieval times it was a symbol of fertility.
How do you attach hazel hurdles to posts?
Hurdles can either be screwed into posts or attached with garden wire. When using round stakes/posts, wire may be more appropriate. For sawn posts, you may prefer to butt them together and then fix with screws, in which case you may find a washer helps secure the hurdle.
What is wattle fencing?
Wattle is a lightweight construction material made by weaving thin branches (either whole, or more usually split) or slats between upright stakes to form a woven lattice. It has commonly been used to make fences and hurdles for enclosing ground or handling livestock.
How do you split a hazel rod for fishing?
Using a billhook you split the hazel rods along their whole length using the blade as a lever, wiggling it from side to side as it goes down the pole. These split rods are easier to bend around the ends and keep the screen from getting too heavy.
How to split a strip of Hazel?
Me putting a notch into a hazel rod before splitting a strip from it. (Photo by Ruth Pybus) David Brown bending a hazel sun shoot around his knee to encourage a thin ribbon of hazel to pop out of the rod. The strips are the outer growth ring of the wood.
How do you make a hurdle out of hazel rods?
There are several skilled operations in creating a hurdle. You start by selecting the hazel rods from hazel coppice and cut them at the base. Next, you take these branches to your working area and trim off the side twigs being careful to cut upwards to avoid creating tears in the bark.
How do you get a ribbon of Hazel out of wood?
David Brown bending a hazel sun shoot around his knee to encourage a thin ribbon of hazel to pop out of the rod. The strips are the outer growth ring of the wood. Once one strip is removed you can take a strip from the other side, and continue around the rod removing the entire layer.