Awesome! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

Depending on exposure to the wind and if they are secured well these hurdles can last up to ten years! So the work will be worth it

I was about to go outside and chase the kids out of my garden before I realised it was in the video.

Sorry but that's not how to make a good quality wattle hurdle. Where are the spur rods? and why isn't he using any split rods in the middle of the hurdle? he's taught himself and isn't patient enough, therefore producing an inferior product. He needs to relearn his craft off someone who knows how to do it properly.There are plenty of much better hurdle makers in Hampshire, Dorset and Sussex who continue a proper craft tradition you could've filmed for this video.

This is not hurdle making.

really informative and one of the better videos on making hurdles. thanks.

There is no weave at the bottom of the hurdle?

I don't have access to much Hazel where i live in the SE U.S., but I experimented making some of these years ago using ligustrum 'rods' (Privet). The wood twists well, but it takes some hand strength. This guy makes it look easy. I fashioned a compost bin and test hurdle, but they didn't last long. By the end of the second season they had pretty much degraded beyond use. Though that was a confluence of climate and not particularly ideally suited wood.

Ligustrum wood suffices, yet is still pretty shit for this application. Ligustrum seems to have all the bad qualities of willow and few of the good ones. Unlike hazel or willow which likes to grow long and straight, ligustrum will 'almost' do that but it seems that the shoots never get longer than a few feet before its terminal bud dies off and a lateral takes over and veers off in its own direction. I've don't think i've ever seen a rod stretch longer than 6 feet without a lateral junction. Usable, just not ideal for that scale.

They're also not native to the U.S. so i'm not interested in propagating them, which makes them useless as stakewood unless they're debarked because they have highly energetic adventitious rooting. Just like willow.

Hurdles and wattle fences are fascinate me. These fences have existed for thousands of years. Hurdles and wattle fences must be one of the first architectural features crafted by human beings that are not only functional, but beautiful. I want to build my own wattle fence and put pots of flowers in front of it.

I loved this. Do you know of other similar woods to use? I live in Texas, USA.