Has anyone any experience of hazel hurdles? Looks like a low
maintenance, classic fence material - if a bit expensive initially.

How long do they last?

Philip

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Has anyone any experience of hazel hurdles? Looks like a low
maintenance, classic fence material - if a bit expensive initially.

Make your own!

How long do they last?

Hundreds of years. They're found in archaeological sites.

Mary

Philip

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Has anyone any experience of hazel hurdles? Looks like a low
maintenance, classic fence material - if a bit expensive initially.

Make your own!
How long do they last?

Hundreds of years. They're found in archaeological sites.

Yup be sure to bury yours under a huge midden if you want it to last.

Simply having it doing a useful job is not enough.

It will disintegrate in 20 years outside.

Originally used for ultra cheap portable fencing. Till the proper hedge
grew or the sheep needed penning somewhere else.


Now infested with a romantic quality and a price to rip off suburbanites.


Mary
Philip

On 10 Dec 2006 02:04:49 -0800, wrote:

Has anyone any experience of hazel hurdles? Looks like a low
maintenance, classic fence material - if a bit expensive initially.

They were early mans DIY fencing. Cheap and easily made disposable
fence. A friend used to make them and showed me how. A very satisfying
if hard on the hands experience.


Now an expensive but useful item for the garden.

How long do they last?

Depends what you use them for. Decoration is a non-stressed state,
many years. As a working fence, about as long as a £6 6'x 4' panel
from B&Q.

They really just make an interesting and different "traditional" look
decoration for the garden.

Philip

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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

[about hazel hurdles]

Yup be sure to bury yours under a huge midden if you want it to
last.

Simply having it doing a useful job is not enough.

It will disintegrate in 20 years outside.

I built a woven hazel fence. About 3 years for it
to dry out and become brittle. 5 years for it to
begin to break up. I left a number of thick hazel
branches in a pile, to go through the woodburner at
some time. They went to a punk and disintegrated
before I could get back to them.

--
Tony Williams.

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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:10:35 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
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Yup be sure to bury yours under a huge midden if you want it to last.

Simply having it doing a useful job is not enough.

It will disintegrate in 20 years outside.

No it won't.

Daughter's farm had some already there when they bought it twenty years ago,
it's still going strong. This in wet and windy Wales.

Mary