Croft Diary

Trail build report: last of the pothole filling season (Piper’s, north side, mway1&2, triangle)

On the Friday afternoon I rode the trail and the noted the location of any remaining potholes. After two years of pot hole filling I knew that our helpers were really looking forwards to a nice change and spending the day filling holes. Jez was particularly excited about this and kept texting me to ask

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Trail build report: triangle woodwork opened, triangle + alley pothole filling

This was a low key trail build day.  On the February build day we’d shifted 20 tonnes in record time and ended up with stock piles of material in strategic locations round the trail. The plan for the day was to finish and open the wood section in the triangle.  This had been almost finished

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Trail build report: 30 people, 20 tonnes (start, exit, mway1, east side)

See the complete Croft trail build diary. After low key build days in December (triangle surfacing) and January (triangle woodwork) we had a big day planned. Twenty tonnes of build materials had been delivered on Thursday morning: half a tonne of gabion (rocks) and 19.5 tonnes of type 1 limestone. Our target was to shift all of this

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