Making Hazel Hurdles

Oh these are sales put these in right I'm using a former yeah this is cool like you could just stick right straight into the ground all right the same time I bought these got two lengths and these are the rods these are collected locally we cut two days ago since a nice and fresh you can cut September to March it's quite simply just like lay them on weaving them in what allows you can see split away the sales are wanting to one normal place aren't they it doesn't matter cause you go through and come up the layers he starts to strengthen itself start to put self back together again alright it will all come the reason they don't fall apart cuz they are tied in at the ends and the way you tie them in is the difficult way but effective bit what I'm gonna do put this one on leash it's cool I picked a long one here yep just trying to go the right way but I picked a long one deliberately this is the thin one you can deal with a quite thick stuff hazel is such a good wood to work with because it's fibrous now if any of you ever seen nettle string you can make string out things of that this has got fiber and if I just bend this here now it's gonna snap all right so I'm literally give you a support then I'm going to roll it in my hands quite hard work and you'll hear it going and you can see it rolling you see the actual wood rolling the fibers come apart and you can actually see that on these old ones looks like thick string or rope whose name she you're turning a piece of wood into a piece of rope effectively I can roll in roll a rope I can go around here all dear for I could just keep rolling around so made a nice tight edge and then I'm off again now by doing that that can't go anywhere so we do all at that end and then come up under the puts them at the tops and that's what locks in he'll stop it wandering worm dudes and pulling it just gently against the would give out right there we go here it go then and you can see it starting to roll it start to turn into rope there it is there is other words you can do this with but this is by far the best stuff sometimes it goes wrong sometimes it snaps let's hope with the disaster there and there I'm off again and now by virtue of the fact I've done that those bottoms will be tied in so now I'm going to chuck a little wood on top but before I do that just gonna do a little trick to help me along the way it's what I'm gonna do with this and for instance I can I'm gonna sneak Lee take him out now get him in I took him into the rap get my being Q hubba I've watched you weeks ago alright you know the wood is see the sails that's right so wanting to wander out they want to go over the place let's use the wood do the business for me so let's try a little cheeky rap didn't get aware of that can ever little bit out just hold it together tomorrow bits off later just to prove a point you can do it with thicker stuff you can do you can roll so for that thick end up with we're cheap dance right now I'm going to just flip up once again I'm going to put the thicker one at this end because I just think it wants to go that way me the will do the work for me don't fight it go with it you go looking good out of it on that and now you can use really bendy old clunky wood yeah you're looking at it thanks more hustle let me see that the truth is once you put it in its gonna end up bent anyway so work with the bend often that's a really good thing to do especially if you don't want the work to get thrown into one way or the other you put a bed back against it it just goes around and how he touches it but it will wrap itself in nice and tightly later one other look to see what ends on the other know about even maybe a bit low in the middle down you go right now real point well I think I'd like to do another rap well I'm gonna do is that cheat so I've got one here this now below the level so if I bring it back on top send him in its gonna make it last time here we go again nice skinny one easy to work with Hey there we go look lose him in there that's not gonna go anywhere now okay so I'm leaning against the bar this was a li that's no sloppy you leave them on the break keep going there I got it why I'm not gonna lock that in don't want to put something on top hello valet tonight you can rap you come there you can that recon there now got it so it's double wrap each end it shouldn't go anywhere Camelot foods try the fellow then I've got you Longmont and I can I squeak another little bit over its strength terms it doesn't need another app if I do it it will finish national this is a bit where it's not for me the positive is it's the last top form and you know what he's trying to go but nope not come the big each other just enough lovely then one this is the underside you're looking at you and there is so we'll top it off here trim any bits of mist oh sorry and then the real contract is Monica not Fred my firm in one piece yes you slap up there you can do that what you need is we're dance now there's one play moment that first one my snap so what I really I'm gonna might be off I'm gonna put another top one on just to give a tiny finish but one little cheat I love it under there and then this end will unwrap of you and then go in yes we will going like when again you think you can't do it like to 600 million they're pretty good I helped a little bit with the raps lady poster hang up what the five were regulars money Oh you

Channel: WoodlandsTV

Views: 145,677

Keywords: hurdle making, hazel hurdles, hazel, traditional crafts, woodlands crafts, craft demonstration, www.adliberate.co.uk, www.woodlands.co.uk, woodlandstv, www.wildaboutwood.org, www.theyorkshirearboretum.org, castle howard estate, www.yorkshirehurdles.com, fence making, craft

Id: ZZJU953eOG8

Length: 9min 8sec (548 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 01 2013