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Bundles of hazel rods
Anyone know where I can get them in Essex/Suffolk/Norfolk?
I want to make my own hurdles around my vegetable garden's beds and there aren't enough in the hedge :( |
Victoria Clare muttered:
Magwitch wrote in news:BD80F1FC.F29A% main: Anyone know where I can get them in Essex/Suffolk/Norfolk? I want to make my own hurdles around my vegetable garden's beds and there aren't enough in the hedge :( Drat - if only you were closer! You could have as many of mine as you wanted! Couldn't be further away! Drat back ;) If no joy here, you might try wandering round the local area looking for overgrown hedges, then knock on the door and offer to take some of the hedge away. If it were me, I'd leap at the chance! Trouble is most of the few hedges around here have only been put in the last few years as the farmers now get a grant or something (it's mainly arable and so hedges are superfluous when you are manoeuvring huge agri-machines around). The other hedges belong to 'nice' suburban houses and don't have untidy hazel in them :( Victoria |
Anna Kettle muttered:
Anyone know where I can get them in Essex/Suffolk/Norfolk? Bradfield Woods, just east of Bury St Edmunds. One pound + VAT per stick (c20-25mm diameter) they come in bundles of 10. Peter Fordham is the man to talk to and his number is 01284 810379 but I don't have much success contacting him that way I just turn up at 8.30am when he arrives for work Anna ~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repairs / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc |____| www.kettlenet.co.uk 01359 230642 Anna, you are a star! Thanks. BTW I checked out your website last year and am highly impressed, when we win the lottery your pargeting on our 4-year-old thatched cottage will be high on my wish list. I'm just 9 miles from Bury. However, his price makes the ready-made jobs from Atlantic Country Superstore (! the name :) - but they stock masses of good stuff) in Bungay @ £17 for a 6' x 3' hurdle sound more reasonable, when the labour (and damaged hands) are taken into account. |
Franz Heymann muttered:
"Anna Kettle" wrote in message ... Anyone know where I can get them in Essex/Suffolk/Norfolk? Bradfield Woods, just east of Bury St Edmunds. One pound + VAT per stick (c20-25mm diameter) they come in bundles of 10. Peter Fordham is the man to talk to and his number is 01284 810379 but I don't have much success contacting him that way I just turn up at 8.30am when he arrives for work At that rate it will cost a few thousand pounds to rig up the shelter {:-(( Franz I want a coppice! In West Sussex, where I used to live, there was about 6 miles of coppiced woodland at the bottom of the garden. They made split chestnut fencing. This Mr. Fordham would be a multimillionaire down there just fencing in a 4 acre garden. He might of course be charging that for the cream of the crop - perfectly straight etc, the hurdle ones might be cheaper. |
Magwitch wrote:
Anyone know where I can get them in Essex/Suffolk/Norfolk? I want to make my own hurdles around my vegetable garden's beds and there aren't enough in the hedge :( Go for a walk! I get all the hazel sticks I need this way, with a pocket pruning saw. -- Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator. |
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Anyone know where I can get them in Essex/Suffolk/Norfolk?
Bradfield Woods, just east of Bury St Edmunds. One pound + VAT per stick (c20-25mm diameter) they come in bundles of 10. Peter Fordham is the man to talk to and his number is 01284 810379 but I don't have much success contacting him that way I just turn up at 8.30am when he arrives for work Anna ~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repairs / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc |____| www.kettlenet.co.uk 01359 230642 |
Bradfield Woods, just east of Bury St Edmunds. One pound + VAT per
stick (c20-25mm diameter) they come in bundles of 10. Peter Fordham is the man to talk to and his number is 01284 810379 but I don't have much success contacting him that way I just turn up at 8.30am when he arrives for work I should have said that they are about 8 foot long and meant for wattling. They probably do hazel in different diameters and lengths for other uses Anna ~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repairs / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc |____| www.kettlenet.co.uk 01359 230642 |
Seems a bit on the pricey side.
I was chatting to me local forester just the other day, and he tells me he gets 30p a stick from coppicing. Assuming that's the going 'trade price', a quid plus vat is a hefty markup. Yes I think it is expensive and if I tried I could get them cheaper but it is just down the road from me. Of course if the OP is coming from Blakeney or Braintree then it might not stack up :-) Anna ~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repairs / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc |____| www.kettlenet.co.uk 01359 230642 |
"Anna Kettle" wrote in message ... Anyone know where I can get them in Essex/Suffolk/Norfolk? Bradfield Woods, just east of Bury St Edmunds. One pound + VAT per stick (c20-25mm diameter) they come in bundles of 10. Peter Fordham is the man to talk to and his number is 01284 810379 but I don't have much success contacting him that way I just turn up at 8.30am when he arrives for work At that rate it will cost a few thousand pounds to rig up the shelter {:-(( Franz |
I want a coppice! In West Sussex, where I used to live, there was about 6
miles of coppiced woodland at the bottom of the garden. They made split chestnut fencing. This Mr. Fordham would be a multimillionaire down there just fencing in a 4 acre garden. He might of course be charging that for the cream of the crop - perfectly straight etc, the hurdle ones might be cheaper. Its Suffolk County Council who are making the millions! Peter Fordham is just am employee. Oh and I've thought of another source of coppice products. A nice lad, Neil Seggar, who is a self employed woodsman, which I would think is much more financially precarious than working for the council. So perhaps you should take your trade there. He's in Woolpit 01359 240523 Anna ~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repairs / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc |____| www.kettlenet.co.uk 01359 230642 |
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