Hurdle Making Demonstration by Alan of Natural England

Demonstration of starting to make a hurdle from scratch. Alan, a tutor from Natural England (formerly English Nature) shows how to make a hurdle on a free course held at a beautiful Nature Reserve in Kent.
It was a marvellous day with brilliant weather. A real treat for me. There was also a basketry course, held by Emma of Natural England, unfortunately I had not time to video this as well. Hope you enjoy watching this and maybe you can learn how to make one for your garden too. I was delighted to bring this home with me, and very proud of my first ever hurdle. Let's hope my cats don't use it as a scratching post!

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Education

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• Hurdles
• country crafts
• hobbies

[BeepBeepBoing]

Apart from all the comments regarding disabled entry etc etc ... this demo is a complete nonsense and not worth anyone attending. That is not a hurdle its a wattle, and wattles are not made that way, what the hell you supposed to do with it once its completed ? Its stuck in the ground, it should be made in a something like an old railway sleeper with a series of holes for the sails (uprights) to slot into, in a curve !!

[eccentricoldcow]

@BeepBeepBoing Well you seem to know more about it than I do, i merely attended what was called a hurdle making event, free to anyone. I enjoyed it and brought the "wattle" home and placed it against the trellis behind my hedgehog house where it helps keep the weather off the house.

[LoveBarrow]

@eccentricoldcow (continued) Following their total failure to keep thier promise to let the disabled back in I cut the wire fence along side one of their kissing gates in what I believe was within my rights to do (obstruction of footpath etc) only to be found guily of criminal damage in the magistrates court. 2 years later and I am now a criminal and still have no access to what was once a truly delightful ramble.

[eccentricoldcow]

@LoveBarrow I'm very sorry to hear that, and I sympathise completely. Surely there must be some way of getting this righted.

[NicenEasyuk]

@BeepBeepBoing I don't understand the difference between a railway sleeper and soft ground. You'll be able to take this hurdle out of the ground once you've wattled it surely?

[WalneyCol]

@eccentricoldcow Natural England and Barrow Borough Council are as thick as thieves.

[LoveBarrow]

@eccentricoldcow None that I'm capable of achieving. I don't have the £20,000 a court case could cost and I'm nowhere near well enough to spend another 12 months arguing with the local councillors who gave conditional conset to Natural England's dinal barrier then turned a blind eye when their conditions were never met.

[eccentricoldcow]

@WalneyCol Crazy and so unjust

[WalneyCol]

@eccentricoldcow They've excluded the disbled from Wlaney's northern reserve by erecting fences and kissing gates on what were once perfectly usable paths, and more revently (may 2008) by the contstruction of a boulder and earthworks barrier which they claim keeps 4wds and motrobikes out. They argree in writing in the summer of 2008 to undertake work to allow the disabled back in and the method they chose involves negotiating a 4m high embankment on loose sand which is totally impossible.

[eccentricoldcow]

@WalneyCol Is that right? I'm very surprised and annoyed about that. Do they say why they have excluded them? That's surely a right everyone has. Sorry to hear that news.