Pollarding Living Fence Posts

[@kylemays1085]

It's best to coppice and pollard in late winter or early spring. I get great regrowth on oaks when cut late February in the Eastern Panhandle of WV.

[@lindseyloo6619]

I love your channel❤ i learn so much from you. Thank you!!

[@GriffenNaif]

Awesome, Please revist this tree and look at health of maple and other trees you worked with.

[@gregb2144]

Oh, the tree here was also a corner post,took out two fences! Fun of farm life$$$$

[@PeterSedesse]

I lived in central america for many years. There was this incredible tree that grew very tall and straight, and you could cut it down, then cut it into 6ft lengths, bury it two feet and use it as posts. But the crazy part is that barely a month or two after putting in the posts, it was sprouting already. After 6 months, it was tall enough that you could cut off another 6 foot post.

[@zachb.637]

Very few pines coppice well or even survive a pollarding. Shortleaf pine can stump sprout but is not nearly as prolific as hardwoods. I think you can consider the low stub of the maple a coppice too. Pollarding generally consists of inter-nodal cuts on scaffolding branches and not on the main stem. Cool idea for the fence! Glad to see you saving those hickory trees.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Apparently Taxus, a conifer which is toxic all the way through except the fleshy cone (seed toxic, cone itself edible), will coppice fine.

[@micky8912]

I never knew what this was called. Good use of what you have.

[@jodysappington7008]

enjoyed listening to you today...

[@gregb2144]

I had noticed the board attached to the tree in previous video. As ,you pointed out the old fence that the tree grew around. Have a few that grew around the tree here. Well when a storm bring the tree down so goes the fence! Have one right now that took fence out. With that board attached the fence damage may not be as severe? Thanks for info!

[@3CreekFarms]

Enjoyed learning today...

[@alanvaleandthelazyfarmer1930]

And you could fasten the board with wooden dowels instead of nails. If they are not completely round, they will grip better.

[@GriffenNaif]

Great idea, I've been thinking of using composite nails... like for CNC machine. Would want a cordless composite nail gun, though. Can you do this on your channel. Would love to see specifics.

[@morgansword]

I already know that your not going to believe me but on those popular trees, I have cut a few off and then drilled a couple three holes near the sap and down into the meat where cut off. I put willow limbs in those that would fit those holes drilled. Out of the three, at least one or more always grew back from the sprouts. Funny thing was willow gets fairly big where we made out transplant and eventualy it would collapse the smaller stump that didn't get a lot bigger around. I would be bored with something to do and tried lots of stuff that shouldn't work

[@124bucket]

saw nothing about the flashlight?

[@jbaker4900]

@ 04:55

[@124bucket]

@@jbaker4900 did i miss how to enter? says see dicription for details

[@RealHankShill]

Use nails. 20 years from now that screw wont come out but a nail would.

[@johnhereg5246]

OMG 1st!!

[@RedToolHouse]

Gold Star for John!

[@pmessinger]

@@RedToolHouse A tip for "Firsties": Don't spend too long celebrating! Click that first like and finish your comment or you could lose your standing to someone else. If I'd known there was a chance at a Gold Star involved, I'd have a few by now.

[@JohnSmith-tv5ep]

@@pmessinger I'd settle for a 'check mark' in red pencil ! LOL .... in fact, never got a gold star in parochial school! The nuns were too tough!!!LOL

[@lee-eb2cn]

I don't understand why putting a 3 ft fence up is valuable.

[@RedToolHouse]

Pigs don't jump. Technically, it is a 1 foot fence with 5ft posts. All that is needed for pigs.

[@jbbrown7907]

New word for me. Not a new technique.