Billhooks & Hedgelaying

Another sequence from BBC's Edwardian Farm (episode 3). Alex Langland learns to lay, or pleach, a chain of hedgerow. As a unit of measurement, a chain is 66 feet, 22 yards, 100 links, 4 rods, 1/10 furlongs, 1/80 statute miles. Billhook design varies between different regions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billhook BBC Farm series: Tales from the Green Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSpqpwJ__Ek&list=PLrYzzr8yja6FUA6S_xLEwRkc6ygmij5xQ Tudor Monastery Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ERDYjsHBg&list=PLrYzzr8yja6FUg-3jbfHILhh6JFtnj7uq Victorian Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5T2TU-Na_c&list=PLrYzzr8yja6F2f4_hxuK2T3pF8XgD82Zw Edwardian Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcBl4_2FJX4&list=PLrYzzr8yja6E-5y2gUvJNlI3eBobkbFs5 Wartime Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou91pLDvDs&list=PLrYzzr8yja6FjTvB4yJp41J6-ebSJJ37Z