Mowing the hedge

This looks like a tricky and quite tedious job: mechanical hedge-trimming.  There are many miles of hedge in this part of Dorset, mostly hazel, I think, but with plenty of mixed native plants as well.  The hazel shoots up in the warmer months and it seems to be important to keep it trimmed.

Not that the mower attachment is very friendly towards the growth, tending as it does to thrash the stems of rather than cutting them.  This chap cuts our hedge, or has done in the past, but now we're giving it a rest for a few years to allow the new plants to grow to replace the fruit bushes that were a major part of the hedge.

But most importantly . . . I had the camera set to a fixed ISO (160) rather than automatically selected (up to 12,800) which resulted in a very slow shutter speed (1/14th), yet the image is acceptably sharp.  I must have steadier hands than I thought . . .