Hard work that coppicing. The natives here in the U. S. used to do it too with specific trees, training the resulting upward branches to be straight, and using them for digging sticks or arrows. Terri, you clearly prefer the hand sawing to using a chain saw? Chain saws are certainly very loud and disruptive to the silence...We too have to constantly reclaim the land from brambles, i.e. blackberry. Apparently Luther Burbank, a botanist (?) who lived in northern California, bred our native blackberry with a Himalayan variety, creating an invasive and extremely hard to control hybrid here. It has taken over certain areas of my own land, especially mixing with my climbing roses. Every late winter, early spring, my daughter and her partner come and help me remove invasive species of grass as well as the blackberries. We do get some nice berries late summer though, the reward. Give and take.
Hard work that coppicing. The natives here in the U. S. used to do it too with specific trees, training the resulting upward branches to be straight, and using them for digging sticks or arrows. Terri, you clearly prefer the hand sawing to using a chain saw? Chain saws are certainly very loud and disruptive to the silence...We too have to constantly reclaim the land from brambles, i.e. blackberry. Apparently Luther Burbank, a botanist (?) who lived in northern California, bred our native blackberry with a Himalayan variety, creating an invasive and extremely hard to control hybrid here. It has taken over certain areas of my own land, especially mixing with my climbing roses. Every late winter, early spring, my daughter and her partner come and help me remove invasive species of grass as well as the blackberries. We do get some nice berries late summer though, the reward. Give and take.