[Closed] anyone else think farmers should be banned from flailing hawthorn hedges?

Laying a hedge properly is a skill that shouldn't be lost.
If it's done right it'll last a long time and has way more benefit than just flailing it. Just because somethin isn't quick and easy doesn't make it a worse option.

You make hedge laying and hedge cutting sound like mutually exclusive options. They aren't. Laying is used to restore a hedge that is open and straggly, usually because it hasn't been cut regularly/properly in the first place. Once a hedge has been laid it will need annual trimming to maintain it. And unless you can find an army of peasants to cut them by hand this means using tractors and flail cutters.

im pretty sure there is no more hawthorn, blackthorn or even brambles round this way anymore.

those people still using that antiquated 'inside tube' system may disagree.

Hawthorn punctures was one of my main reasons for going tubeless.

Great idea! Lets get the world to revolve around cyclists! I love how it endears us to the general public.

jonah tonto - Member

you may need a solicitor once in your life, a doctor one a year, but you need a farmer three times a day.

I really like this, cheers!

Oh dear. Only on stw eh? Fat tosser in yellow lycra on 4k carbon toss machine argues the toss and tries to re educate the entire rural community
on the way things have been done forever.... just p1ss off back to the trail centre........

Does anybody know whether farmers can be compelled to flay hedges (or otherwise manage their height) on a regular basis? I'm particularly concerned about the affect of an overgrown hedge on important views.

...if stimpy has stalked me to here, this is the thread I was referring to earlier, and you'll clearly know what I'm talking about!

Oh dear. Only on stw eh? Fat tosser in yellow lycra on 4k carbon toss machine argues the toss and tries to re educate the entire rural community
on the way things have been done forever.... just p1ss off back to the trail centre........

That has made my day, thanks beanieripper 😀

look, I posted a stupid thread after feeling a bit pissed off and it was partly tounge in cheek anyway - so I got flaied a bit - OK, I deserved that,

BUT, I am not "fat", I don't wear "yellow lycra", I don't live or work in a city, I don't ride trailcentres except maybe once or twice a year at most, I do ride more than 10 times a year (actually about 3-4 times a week), I don't live in a cottage, I don't have a 4K bike, I don't have a carbon bike, I wasn't trying to teach anyone anything and I wasn't having a go at all farmers (as I said above)....

Oh dear. Only on stw eh? Fat tosser in yellow lycra on 4k carbon toss machine argues the toss and tries to re educate the entire rural community
on the way things have been done forever.... just p1ss off back to the trail centre........

I like the cut of your jib. 😆