It was the last day of the season that Hare Hill was open to the public and Halloween activities had been organised for any children who visited so Jack, the NT Ranger, explained that he couldn't work with us today as he was needed to supervise the children's activities.
Before he did, Jack walked us for about 20mins to the hedge we were going to be working on, explaining that Hare Hill were able to receive funding provided the hedge was laid by the end of the year. They had already had erected a fence along the side of the hedge which made life interesting as it meant that we had to climb the fence over to get to the other side of the hedge, before we could even start!
Once over, we split into separate workgroups. Matt showed a few of the group how to hedge lay whilst the majority of people walked along the length of the hedge clearing any tree's that were in the way and tidying up the top and sides of the hedge ready for laying. Tim started removing the old barbed wire that was on the far side of the hedge but it was quite a task as I hadn't brought any wirecutters when I'd collected the tools:-(
It was a lovely day, great camaraderie and we got plenty done as, once the length of the hedge had been tidied, others in the group turned their hands at laying some of the hedge.
By the end of the day, although we were pleased we'd managed to get quite a long length done, the hedge was quite old and it hadn't really been tidied previously, so we all decided that it wasn't the tidiest hedge laying that we'd been involved with, but we'd made a good start on it.
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