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Agricultural Craft and history
Registrace 6. 04. 2021
This channel shows some of the projects we have worked on over the years that will help maintain rural history, crafts and knowledge.
The Art of Fire
This is a video we produced with Chris Salisbury from Wildwise in South Devon to introduce viewers to the different methods of making a fire in the wild.
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Ridge and Furrow
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This is a video explaining the Ridge and Furrow field system that I shot way back in 2020.
Bert Manton's story
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Bert Manton is a man with a mission; to keep country crafts alive. We have been lucky enough to video him on several occasions - this is his story.
Trug Making
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In this video Bert Manton shows us how to make a traditional garden trug.
Making a Dorset Hurdle
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Over the years Breeze and Freeze have been lucky enough to work with some real characters in the agri-rural sector. We think it is important to preserve some ancient skills and maintain the memory of some remarkable characters we have met along the way. Here Bert Manton from Woodford Halse in Northamptonshire shows us how to create a traditional Dorset hurdle. Bert has written a book about his ...
THATS NOT FUCKING SWEET CHESTNUT THATS FUCKING ASH!!! FUCK!!!
These would be great for sides on the Geo domes for a Green house! Make TEN at ten feet and then you need 35 A sticks at ten feet to make the long triangle and then 35 B 9 feet ones short triagles for the other part of the 2 V then you have a Geo dome green house just need to cut the plastice for top and one to go around !
amazing!
Outstanding
I’m watching in awe! I have hazels growing on my 15-acre land in the NC mountains, where I plan to learn and incorporate the old, nearly lost , practical crafts. Is there any reason why we shouldn’t make the hurdles a bit taller?
You can make them as tall as you like.
Fantastic and so informative and unflash
Such good common sense, lovely work, thank you for sharing
Beautiful work
That was super cool!
very nice! and a new word in my vocabulary: cock-eyed😁
Proper hurdle making. My Dorset farming father, born in 1927 was in awe of these amazing skills. Thank you so much. I was teary watching this. You are ensuring these skills are not lost.
what species of hazel ? asking from Missouri, USA as there are a variety available
Excellent video
How long will these hurdles last?
Nimble folk used to show their skill by jumping over these until it became an Olympic running sport.
Where he from?
I absolutely love your videos, you’re an excellent instructor, I could watch you all day. Wish I could come visit + study for a few weeks ☺️
Wow. Hilarious, instructive and soothing. Thank you Chris Salisbury.
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much for demonstrating this.
Its great to see the old skills and trades are not dieing out.
This is why I love CZcams this visual library of human tool creation.... bloody brilliant!
I look forward to making my first hurdle.
Nice to hear a Northamptonshire accent on CZcams, albeit faint.
I absolutely loved watching this, thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing this time honored technique. Great job, Sir. I'm looking forward to trying my hand at this soon.
Great teaching video! Thank you!
An excellent video
Very enjoyable and well made video. I dabble in black ash basketry and love to see how other cultures fashion containers. My hope is the craft of basketry will have a major revival. Truly renewable containers are sorely needed. Plastics are ruining the world. I'm imagining which north american woods I'd make a trug from. I'm in northern NY and white oak is pretty scarce and pricey. Tons of ash but the ash borers have finally arrived and ash is under threat. I'm trying to fill my pond with logs before it's all gone.
Superb craftsmanship. Thank you for uploading
Wonderful video
Excellent work, needs himself a big pair of levered loppers for the trimming up, the fiskars ones work a treat, will save him hours with the amount he makes
Face it toward the field, as they hold many rodents. A farmer reduced his gophers by the thousands!
Hi Bert just finished watching your film it was wonderful thanks Moggy Mark Sumner in Solihull.
Are you able to advise where we can buy the willow and chestnut poles from Bert?
Chestnut grows abundantly in Sussex, Hampshire and parts of Dorset. Historically, it was coppiced but that is dying out. It can be bought via the Internet. Willow grows in abundance everywhere, and willow poles are harvested about every 10 or 12 years. I'm just about to drop a line of willows I pollarded 10 years ago.
Beautiful workmanship, there is a lot to be said for pride in your work. This was a most thorough tutorial in the art I have seen, Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Awesome thanks
Well done.
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Would love to see more on tools you use...if you can reproduce then please do...were heading to a world where tools like this will be invaluable
Unreal, we Europeans are very smart.
I would love several of them. They would be perfect for keeping knitting and sewing and weaving items like wools, cottons needles etc. in one place and easy to just pick to and move about.
I've not heard of a hurdle until just now and I'm 67. You've got me hooked in the first 3 minutes! Simply brilliant. Thank you
In a world beset with all manner of existential threats and political dissidents, it’s refreshing to harken back to a simpler time...
All that and we haven't really seen how they were. Did they take it for granted that everyone know? Did they mean to say that each ridge was a unit, possibly with different farmers? What I have been able to research on my own is that they weren't made accidentally by ploughing, but rather thrown up on purpose for drainage and deeper soil.
Yes. Originally, to fairly distribute good and bad land, each ridge was farmed by a different person, each person would have at least one ridge in a good field and one in a poor field. Also, the singular term "land" referred to the unit of the ridge, and not to the entire area or field of ridges. All the lands were either in crop together or in fallow (resting, grazed by animals) together because there were no fences. They didn't describe ownership of the animals, I imagine that must have been shared fairly too.
So co-operative
Hmm, the "splitting image"... I wonder if this means the "spitting image" is of different etymology or just another bastardized misnomer.
SOOOOO....A New England Wattle Fence?
Thank you, for that! Very interesting and infornative! I'd love to give it a go sometime, but I'll need to find some hazel first. Would willow work?
Just watched this ,,, what a master to behold..I’m more educated each day to pass on and practice
Thank you So Much. Ive enjoyed the sharing of historic methods. Is there a piece list available per panal? Or just weave till done?
Watching from NYC.. so very fascinating! But the lovely smile at the end was the best part. 😊