The art of hedging

[unstuck]

Yeah, I remember being a kid on the Yorkshire dales, looking for eggs to collect in the old hedges.

As for your hedge, no local with a sidearm flail mower handy?

[328FTW]

I found my rally car can level a decent sized hedge faster than anything I've ever seen when I get out of shape. I should start a business.

[eliot-ness]

Yeah, I remember being a kid on the Yorkshire dales, looking for eggs to collect in the old hedges.

As for your hedge, no local with a sidearm flail mower handy?

Yea, I could get something like that but Macrocarpa trimmed close has the unfortunate tendency to die back if you cut through the foliage, and that's only about a couple of inches. Cut below that and you have a dead patch that takes a couple of years to grow over.
Bird nesting used to be the favorite occupation back in the late forties and early fifties, not much of that now. thanks to hedges being ripped out to make bigger fields, and insecticides killing off most of the insects that birds feed on, most of the bird life is now protected in a desperate effort to increase the bird population. If you want to see birds that used to be common you have to go to the sanctuaries.