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Hedging and Plashing

There are two categories, plashing and flail hedge cutting.  

Plashing is the most interesting.  

Competitors start with an overgrown hedge and turn it into a tidy, stock proof one.  They do it by cutting part way through the young tree trunks, laying the wood horizontally, weaving it around stakes and binding the tops with willow. Any dead wood should be removed.   

Marks are given for the stake work, the top binding, and the overall appearance.  Plenty of white bare wood from the partial cut is good.  Well supported young hedge trees will live even if only a strip of bark connects then to their roots.   

The early stages

The final result

No sheep will get through that.  

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