Hedghog Highways, fencer failed to make

I am sorry that he f***ed it up. Have you already paid him?

I have my own hedgehog nesting place.

That is exactly what the foxes have done around my way to get to the various gardens even though they can also jump from shed to shed roofs and use compost daleks as a step.

Personally I would bother lining them.

If it's the type with rebar inside, exposing it will start that rusting and eventually crumbling the concrete

Can they not be painted with something?

Might be easier to cut out of the timber panel and build a hedgehog size ramp up to the hole.

Richard

....... wouldn't bother lining

Foxes dug a hole under the fence twixt me an neighbour so that they could knock the peanut feeder stand over, but has also been seen jumping/scrambling over 6 foot panel fences.

Hedgehogs are quite good at climbing, as has been shown on TV programs about hedgehog highways so making a hole in the panel above the gravel board would do. Just add a housebrick each side as a stepping stone ifyou want to help.

Andy Burns laid this down on his screen :

A metal detector will confirm whether there is, or isn't.

I like that solution.

Cheers, T i m

Yes a bit beyond my expertise these days. Many of the things I found on line were in video form, soar t of as you can see here sort of videos, which I can't see that is.

How do you decide if an angle grinder man is going to do it right or end up with two half gravel boards, is there a certificate for angle grinder users, National certified angle grinding institute or some such? Brian

Yes I do not know that, but I thought that concrete only had strength in compression anyway, as some of the problems with a Bridge near Wales was rusting of the tensioned cabling inside concrete beams. Brian

Yes but the edges of the hole will crumble over time and the protection will drop off as folk will never remember to keep an eye on it. Depends where the bar is, Do you think a metal detector or cable finder might tell us where they are? Brian

Yes, but this is only a word of mouth agreement. His work is excellent otherwise according to the eyes who have looked at it. It will save me a lot over my declining years as the old fence needed posts and rails every year and was going to be far more expensive to do than a new fence.

Brian

Yes it's part of the Yuri Geller Institute of Advannced Spoonbending.

Yes I assume if they were used then you would not get a lot of weeds, but you might also get a lot of other animals widening them as well.

The foxes, I'd say will have no bother climbing over them, they are not huge, I don't live in stalag 13 with machine guns at each corner!

Brian

I'll have to think about that. The idea I think here is to re introduce the Hedgehog again since we have not seen one for over 2 years. Maybe somebody could teach them that rolling up into a ball on a busy suburban street is not a good way to avoid cars. Also people need to be very wary when using strimmers as some Hedgehogs have had legs amputated by them. Brian

You could make a little Ramp I suppose, out of wood, with sp9ikes to push it into the ground. Brian