That intro with the music, rain, and images of leaves with rain dripping of them literally filled my body with endorphins. I love England. I wish everybody else did too.
Have done this with willow, they're nearly impossible to kill, and they make a great hedge. Super flexible, easy to weave back into itself, and extremely durable as a fence. Thanks for showing us your efforts to keep on ancient technique alive. Cheers. 👋🇨🇦
Must be so rewarding to see the progress and to connect with your heritage. Doing a task that someone was doing 1000 years ago is an incredible experience.
I, as a student on prehistoric archaology, fully agree. I knapp stones like our ancestors did until about 3000 years ago, and have created some prehistoric weapons like throwing spears and tested them, although nowhere being as fit and trained as an athlete or professional. I created pottery in various neolithic to iron age traditions and tried cooking actual meals (stews with lentils, beans, seasonal wild herbs and such) or brew makeshift beer from yeast, wheat and herbs in them. I tried making beads and other decorations from antler and bone, but failed so far since I wasn't satisfied with the outcome. next year, I hopefully will carry out my most ambitious project so far: a neolithic flint sicle from scratch, created with authentic tools and materials I will have to gather and assemble myself, while documenting everything for a report during the creation process. it will take loads of research and thought process, and I hope my tool will be able to carry out some subsequent practical use experiments (i.e. sicle shining development, blunting development, harvest quantity, etc.). this summer I have helped out fixing some deteriorating wooden house structures that were built 18 years ago based on research data from neolithic sites in central europe (Schletz, lower austria). we exchanged rotten pillars and renewed the overall structural integrity of the building, plus renewing the mud thatched walls. we used modern tools on that, though, due to time issues. fascinating stuff indeed, let me tell you that.
@@TAOutdoors hey man idk if you know about the UA-cam scam bots from telegram. But you might need to address everyone so they don't fall for the scam. Anything from telegram is a scam
I've been waiting for this update, I learned something. Thank you for posting it and please continue to update us on this project. Thanks again ! ~ 12 Block Tokie ~ Detroit, Michigan USA
As an American, I've only seen really old hedges on a trip to France but I've always been interested in how they are made. This is fascinating to me. Thanks!
This is great. Watching it for years, cultivating it. Truly amazing stuff. I've heard of this practice. Even huts being made from weaving living trees together. Thank you TA.👊
Beautiful! Almost a year with the woodland, amazing. An anniversary montage will be a treat, looking forward to it. It's a joy to see your passion bearing such fruit. Thanks for spreading your joy of nature, Mike! ❣
I've seen gardening shows notch standing trees like this - to encourage growth in one particular branch, you can place a notch above it. You can also place a notch below a branch to slow the growth. It's neat to see it applied in this way. Thanks for sharing the update, I can't wait to see it next year!
You are gifted teacher, great videographer, enchanting musical score adaptor and just a plain nice guy.. The channel has evolved and is now one of my favorites. Add to that your dad and its a winner. I watched The Outsider for the same reasons I do you. Sadly the loss of his dad this last summer was very painful.for him and all of us. Keep your dad healthy !!!!!!!! I am saying this as a 71 year dad of 3 adult children.
Wow!! I can’t believe it’s been 7-8 months already!! Loving the fact that you lets us join you on your amazing journey and also that I’ve learned a lot from you! Thank you so much!! Spending a few hours with TA Outdoors is defo on my bucket list!!
Fifty years ago, one could still see some of this in Germany but, it was so old that I didn't think it was man made. Personally, I would love to have written instructions (a book?) on your efforts. Thank you for teaching us of ancient methods.
It wasn't until I owned land of my own and watched it change that I really appreciated what nature is capable of. I love beech trees too: Even in the coldest months of winter they keep their leaves and they tremble in the wind all winter long. It's a lovely reminder of what was and what will be come spring.
Just loved seeing this followup! Those hedges are coming along well -- it will be nice to see them adorned with snow and ice this winter, and coming up green in the spring, too!
The best thing I love about your channel over other bush crafting channels is that your educational to a a point where my kids love sitting down and watching your channel and learning and then going outside and trying. You actually show and teach. Thankyou for getting my kids outside. Please keep your channel family friendly and educational.
I love the woodland series and learning how woodland were manage for varied uses. This is not something we think much about now.but if a family needed to rely on it they would need to understand how it works
I knew just by the thumbnail what we was doing today honestly you are one of the best people to watch on UA-cam you don't need to talk just you the woods and your skills is absolutely great keep going
You have become what my dad was. A volunteer park warden. Many small 1/2 acre pieces of land set aside for nature preserve where I grew up. My mom and dad worked hard to support and protect the natural areas around where they had an orchard. 🇨🇦
Trees are magical in what they do to heal and keep growing. I have an 80 ft soft maple tree in my back yard. It is estimated at 115 years old. The house next door had a fire that destroyed a porch and part of the house. The flames shot up the entire height of the tree and the bushes next to it. I was so afraid it was killed. Within 2 weeks there were new leaves growing over the entire tree. The lilac bushes that bloomed in April bloomed again and grew hundreds of new leaves, Thank you for the link to the fire cooking gear.
Well worth the wait. This is the education I've always wanted. So glad you're willing to share your woodland with us! In just another month or two I'll have my own woods and your videos help so much to push me in the right direction on my own adventures. Thanks so much for all you give Mike!
I love that you experimented. Some ancient wisdom is hogwash and some is actually ... wisdom! We are all wiser, now. Well done for putting the work in. I already have that fire anchor, with hook and mini grill. Quality kit, for those who are unsure.
Thank you for giving me (us) something to watch that is aspirational, as opposed to what we see happening everyday in this world of ours which is so depressing. I really like that you and your Dad do so much together. Keep it up.
it's amazing what you and your dad have done with the woodland in under a year I hope this is something you can leave to your kids and then there kids and on and on
You are a great steward to your land. Owning some acreage myself with my family it's amazing to see how much you can do on your own or just with your pops help
Excellent that you are practicing the ART of hedge laying and videoing the progress, I was lucky enough as a child to live in an area where there was still plenty of laid hedges around fields or dry stone walls, the farmers had resisted the urge to rip out natural hedges in the process of enlarging fields.
I am somewhat of a new sub, but I have watched a good number of days back to back content of yours. It is so inspiring and intriguing, but the best part has been the woodland life. Love to see more of this respect and love for the land and animals. Love from SA.
It is amazing. Make you wonder who first thought about this technique. That “What if…” moment that made them think to partially cut and bend over a tree…. Thanks for sharing the progress.
Thanks for the progress report. Great feeling to see your own work succeed. Love the woodland being brought up between Chopwell woods , and the Burnwoods which was a private woodland.
Now that is what I call a Great Video. The Old Ways have power, knowing that power gives you power. Fuel, building materials, arrow shafts, boundary setting, food... the list goes on and on. I love the progress; and the awareness of where there was less. Now all that is needed; is patience, and some pruning, guiding... you know, just that TAOutdoorsiness. You are on the right path. True woodsmanship Sir! Well Done indeed. m out
Great update. Really interesting to see progress over the summer. One thing you don’t mention is that 4 months of that time were in drought conditions, that can only have held back growth, making the progress all the more impressive. Keep up the great work!
Hi Mike, looking great!! I really love you’re looking after the environment whilst on your journey, it’s fantastic! Can I just say, if you trim your hedge back down to the height of the binders next autumn, that will really help thicken your hedge up! Take care, Spencer.
THANK YOU for reviving and expanding peoples' interest in hedge-laying. Forest management is poorly understood in even the suburban areas of the United States.
I love your serene, quiet intros. Good lead-in to the vibe of your channel. Maybe start a Patreon campaign for a Trail Cam time-lapse? I'd even watch a streaming webcam! 🙂
That's cool stuff. When i was in Costa Rica I noticed that most of the fencing was thick and living, much like what you did. It was very effective, sturdy, and long term.
I'm so glad to have found this update! Looks wonderful. Winter is just ending where I am in Canada, and hedgelaying is rarely practiced here, so I'm going to experiment with a short length of hedge where the fence is falling apart here!
I love it♡♡♡ caring for a woodland is such a beautiful thing, it's preservation of heritage, the way to make sure your children and your children's children might get a a chance to live, love and learn of the high one get from nature. -a bud about to bloom in the history of man. xD♡♡♡
20 years ago I used to do the same exact thing but with weed just bend it every other day until it's on the ground it keeps growing long and you get a 6 or 7 foot long by 2 and a half feet tall plant seems to be a lot more flowers and and so many more tops it's unbelievable.
Bravo!!! Most interesting and informative video, never seen anything like it! Thanks 🙏
FANTASTIC
Loved seeing the progress of a procedure, used by our elders, and showing we don't necessarily need to try and improve by using manmade materials!
That intro with the music, rain, and images of leaves with rain dripping of them literally filled my body with endorphins. I love England. I wish everybody else did too.
Have done this with willow, they're nearly impossible to kill, and they make a great hedge. Super flexible, easy to weave back into itself, and extremely durable as a fence. Thanks for showing us your efforts to keep on ancient technique alive.
Cheers. 👋🇨🇦
Wonderful to see these ancient traditions continuing. Lovely work.
Must be so rewarding to see the progress and to connect with your heritage. Doing a task that someone was doing 1000 years ago is an incredible experience.
It really is! Something very therapeutic about it.
I, as a student on prehistoric archaology, fully agree. I knapp stones like our ancestors did until about 3000 years ago, and have created some prehistoric weapons like throwing spears and tested them, although nowhere being as fit and trained as an athlete or professional. I created pottery in various neolithic to iron age traditions and tried cooking actual meals (stews with lentils, beans, seasonal wild herbs and such) or brew makeshift beer from yeast, wheat and herbs in them.
I tried making beads and other decorations from antler and bone, but failed so far since I wasn't satisfied with the outcome.
next year, I hopefully will carry out my most ambitious project so far: a neolithic flint sicle from scratch, created with authentic tools and materials I will have to gather and assemble myself, while documenting everything for a report during the creation process. it will take loads of research and thought process, and I hope my tool will be able to carry out some subsequent practical use experiments (i.e. sicle shining development, blunting development, harvest quantity, etc.).
this summer I have helped out fixing some deteriorating wooden house structures that were built 18 years ago based on research data from neolithic sites in central europe (Schletz, lower austria). we exchanged rotten pillars and renewed the overall structural integrity of the building, plus renewing the mud thatched walls. we used modern tools on that, though, due to time issues.
fascinating stuff indeed, let me tell you that.
It's humbling too.
What they did without our tools and transportations.
@@TAOutdoors hey man idk if you know about the UA-cam scam bots from telegram. But you might need to address everyone so they don't fall for the scam. Anything from telegram is a scam
I think this every time I eat. Incredible.
I've been waiting for this update, I learned something. Thank you for posting it and please continue to update us on this project. Thanks again ! ~ 12 Block Tokie ~ Detroit, Michigan USA
Thanks for the vid, Mike! Treasure these moments with your dad, and that little dog, great memories. Godspeed on your journey!
~Steve.
As an American, I've only seen really old hedges on a trip to France but I've always been interested in how they are made. This is fascinating to me. Thanks!
This is great. Watching it for years, cultivating it. Truly amazing stuff. I've heard of this practice. Even huts being made from weaving living trees together. Thank you TA.👊
Brilliant - reminds me of this:
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen ...
I'm glad there are still people who want to keep the old ways of doing things alive. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Beautiful! Almost a year with the woodland, amazing. An anniversary montage will be a treat, looking forward to it. It's a joy to see your passion bearing such fruit. Thanks for spreading your joy of nature, Mike! ❣
I've seen gardening shows notch standing trees like this - to encourage growth in one particular branch, you can place a notch above it. You can also place a notch below a branch to slow the growth. It's neat to see it applied in this way. Thanks for sharing the update, I can't wait to see it next year!
You are gifted teacher, great videographer, enchanting musical score adaptor and just a plain nice guy.. The channel has evolved and is now one of my favorites. Add to that your dad and its a winner. I watched The Outsider for the same reasons I do you. Sadly the loss of his dad this last summer was very painful.for him and all of us. Keep your dad healthy !!!!!!!! I am saying this as a 71 year dad of 3 adult children.
Mike you are doing an awesome job, from bushcrafter to nature conservationist!
I can not think of one video that you have put out that was not great, thanks for the time you put into bringing great content to your viewers.
Many thanks!
Well said
This is a good man and so is his Dad 💪🏻👍👋
Beauty's everywhere 😍
Wow!! I can’t believe it’s been 7-8 months already!! Loving the fact that you lets us join you on your amazing journey and also that I’ve learned a lot from you! Thank you so much!! Spending a few hours with TA Outdoors is defo on my bucket list!!
Very well! I love how you do and document (and show us) this ancient technique!
This looks both brutal and caring at the same time. This is bushcrafting on another level. Love it!
Fifty years ago, one could still see some of this in Germany but, it was so old that I didn't think it was man made. Personally, I would love to have written instructions (a book?) on your efforts. Thank you for teaching us of ancient methods.
Cool. Enjoy your videos, from Denver Colorado USA
It is lovely to see the results of your labours. This channel has matured very well. I am enjoying your woodland life.
I love the fence u made with them. It so cute
It wasn't until I owned land of my own and watched it change that I really appreciated what nature is capable of. I love beech trees too: Even in the coldest months of winter they keep their leaves and they tremble in the wind all winter long. It's a lovely reminder of what was and what will be come spring.
Very satisfying to see the growth of hedge. 🤗❤👍thanks for sharing
Very hopeful mate
Just loved seeing this followup! Those hedges are coming along well -- it will be nice to see them adorned with snow and ice this winter, and coming up green in the spring, too!
Love your channel! Your so blessed to still have your father ya'll work so well together!
Thank you , Mike .
🐺
MIKE! Bravo, it looks bright and is filling out well! Your grandchildren will bless you for this!
Mike, You are quite the conservator of your land. Blessings to you, your father and family. Thanks!
The best thing I love about your channel over other bush crafting channels is that your educational to a a point where my kids love sitting down and watching your channel and learning and then going outside and trying. You actually show and teach. Thankyou for getting my kids outside. Please keep your channel family friendly and educational.
I love the woodland series and learning how woodland were manage for varied uses. This is not something we think much about now.but if a family needed to rely on it they would need to understand how it works
I knew just by the thumbnail what we was doing today honestly you are one of the best people to watch on UA-cam you don't need to talk just you the woods and your skills is absolutely great keep going
Thank you for the update. I had never seen a hedge put down and was fascinated that you did one. Keep up the good work.
Neat hedge. I enjoyed your video.
Great to see you posting sir! Bless you and the fam
Good job...You seem very relaxed & chilled there indeed.
Wonderfully shot, wonderfully educational, an absolutely lovely video, thank you.
I love your hedge. It’s organic and beautiful 🐝🤗❤️
Incredible growth especially considering the dry weather
You have become what my dad was. A volunteer park warden. Many small 1/2 acre pieces of land set aside for nature preserve where I grew up. My mom and dad worked hard to support and protect the natural areas around where they had an orchard. 🇨🇦
I’ve been waiting for this video…. I’m doing the very same technique at my country park where I work! 🙌
How's your project going? I hope you're having success! 😀
This is an outstanding video in an outstanding series. Thanks for taking us along for your wonderful journey.
I love these episodes, with more a focus on nature and history. It really helps me feel reconnected and reinvigorated. Cheers!
Trees are magical in what they do to heal and keep growing. I have an 80 ft soft maple tree in my back yard. It is estimated at 115 years old. The house next door had a fire that destroyed a porch and part of the house. The flames shot up the entire height of the tree and the bushes next to it. I was so afraid it was killed. Within 2 weeks there were new leaves growing over the entire tree. The lilac bushes that bloomed in April bloomed again and grew hundreds of new leaves, Thank you for the link to the fire cooking gear.
This video is FASCINATING 👍😆
Thank you...
Well worth the wait. This is the education I've always wanted. So glad you're willing to share your woodland with us! In just another month or two I'll have my own woods and your videos help so much to push me in the right direction on my own adventures. Thanks so much for all you give Mike!
I love that you experimented. Some ancient wisdom is hogwash and some is actually ... wisdom! We are all wiser, now. Well done for putting the work in.
I already have that fire anchor, with hook and mini grill. Quality kit, for those who are unsure.
Amazing! I always used to spot these in the wild as it were as a child, the process fascinated me. You are building for now and for the future.
Thank you for the video!🤩👍♥.
Thank you for giving me (us) something to watch that is aspirational, as opposed to what we see happening everyday in this world of ours which is so depressing. I really like that you and your Dad do so much together. Keep it up.
Thank you so much for taking me with you. Love watching the progress....I can almost smell the air.
Thanks Lana
it's amazing what you and your dad have done with the woodland in under a year I hope this is something you can leave to your kids and then there kids and on and on
The oak trees! So beautiful. King Charles has made his own living hedges, too. Such a functional art form.
loving watching you care for and enjoy your new woodland bud, hope to see the TA Outdoors' 'I bought my own woodland...10 years on' video some day
I really appreciate being able to see the progress. Love the wildlife!
Excellent job
Absolutely beautiful work! That sort of work is rare here in the US, but I love seeing it in photos and videos from your side of the pond.
This was a nice surprise. I was also recently wondering how the hedge was coming along. Looks good with great promise for the future.
Glad to have covered it!
The hedgelaying videos have been my favourite of this series
You are a great steward to your land. Owning some acreage myself with my family it's amazing to see how much you can do on your own or just with your pops help
Thank you 👍🏻
I am proud of the work that you have done this Summer. Can’t wait to see how this looks next year.
Thanks for the update Mike
It is peaceful and back to nature love your attitude to learning and passing it on to us big thanks .
Fantastic....I love this method of living hedge management 😍 thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for sharing, very interesting to see how living hedge is growing. Take care.
Great video! Get prepping guys, tough times ahead 👍 🙏
Cheers 👍🏻
Great hedgerow coming along.👍🏼😊
Wow!! 8 months already? Time is flying by. Love your content, from Houston, Tx.
Great to see, Mike. Just think, another month and you could've given us a baby!
Excellent that you are practicing the ART of hedge laying and videoing the progress, I was lucky enough as a child to live in an area where there was still plenty of laid hedges around fields or dry stone walls, the farmers had resisted the urge to rip out natural hedges in the process of enlarging fields.
They were wise to leave them. Hedges prevent erosion from the wind and the rain.
Wonderful progress
From my experience in the woods, first year you don't see that much growth in the vegetation but after two or three years it gets very satisfying.
Nice 👌 your dad and you have done a fantastic job 👌enough said 👍
I am somewhat of a new sub, but I have watched a good number of days back to back content of yours. It is so inspiring and intriguing, but the best part has been the woodland life. Love to see more of this respect and love for the land and animals. Love from SA.
Thanks, welcome to the channel!
It is amazing. Make you wonder who first thought about this technique. That “What if…” moment that made them think to partially cut and bend over a tree…. Thanks for sharing the progress.
The resilience of trees is quite phenomenal, as you said the tree has gone into "survival mode". Great info & channel, ty for sharing ur knowhow
It was good to see how well it's going! Thanks for the update.
In the early years whip some of the longer new growth back into the structure it willencourage new growth and make the final hedge bushier
Thanks for the progress report. Great feeling to see your own work succeed. Love the woodland being brought up between Chopwell woods , and the Burnwoods which was a private woodland.
Great to see how things are progressing!! Great job!!
Outstanding. Thanks for sharing
Now that is what I call a Great Video. The Old Ways have power, knowing that power gives you power. Fuel, building materials, arrow shafts, boundary setting, food... the list goes on and on. I love the progress; and the awareness of where there was less. Now all that is needed; is patience, and some pruning, guiding... you know, just that TAOutdoorsiness. You are on the right path. True woodsmanship Sir! Well Done indeed. m out
This was a fantastic watch. I truly enjoyed watching and learning from this, good sir!
Soaking up your knowledge and experience.
Great update. Really interesting to see progress over the summer. One thing you don’t mention is that 4 months of that time were in drought conditions, that can only have held back growth, making the progress all the more impressive. Keep up the great work!
Hi Mike, looking great!! I really love you’re looking after the environment whilst on your journey, it’s fantastic! Can I just say, if you trim your hedge back down to the height of the binders next autumn, that will really help thicken your hedge up! Take care, Spencer.
Looking great!!! That is some beautiful land. Cheers!!! Looking forward to the next one.
THANK YOU for reviving and expanding peoples' interest in hedge-laying. Forest management is poorly understood in even the suburban areas of the United States.
Hey , That's turning out very nice ! Nice job !! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🪓🔪👍👍
I love your serene, quiet intros. Good lead-in to the vibe of your channel. Maybe start a Patreon campaign for a Trail Cam time-lapse? I'd even watch a streaming webcam! 🙂
Wonderful results, I too have been waiting to see this. Now waiting to see the Fall color changes in your forest. 👍
That's cool stuff. When i was in Costa Rica I noticed that most of the fencing was thick and living, much like what you did. It was very effective, sturdy, and long term.
I love the woodland life series, thx!
I'm so glad to have found this update! Looks wonderful. Winter is just ending where I am in Canada, and hedgelaying is rarely practiced here, so I'm going to experiment with a short length of hedge where the fence is falling apart here!
I love it♡♡♡ caring for a woodland is such a beautiful thing, it's preservation of heritage, the way to make sure your children and your children's children might get a a chance to live, love and learn of the high one get from nature.
-a bud about to bloom in the history of man. xD♡♡♡
20 years ago I used to do the same exact thing but with weed just bend it every other day until it's on the ground it keeps growing long and you get a 6 or 7 foot long by 2 and a half feet tall plant seems to be a lot more flowers and and so many more tops it's unbelievable.