This is a whack, bash and hack session where we’ll clear nettles and undergrowth back from the edge of the trail. We are meeting for around 06:15pm in the car park ready for some stereo strimmer action. If you have a strimmer, rake, snippers, loppers or cutters then bring them along too.
Evening whack, bash and hack session. Read More »
We cleared a load of nettles back last week and there’s a few more to do. Meeting at around 06:30pm in the car park. Stereo strimmer action. If you have a strimmer, rake, snippers, loppers or cutters then come along and help clear nettles. If we’ve already started then walk round the trail. We’ll be
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This was before we had any Land Rover enthusiasts to help us and before we started using the power barrow (Muck Truck). So we had to handball material using wheel barrows. As you can see from the photograph we were already looking for ways of making the job easier.The material was type 1 road building
Trail build report: 25th Oct – moving red gravel Read More »
We were joined on this build day by Kate and James. The diary is sketchy – it looks like we tweeked the trail on the north east corner, adding what we call the “roller coaster” corner. We then moved down the east side cutting the trail to the pond and round the section there. Most
Trail build report: 19th Oct – route cutting on East side Read More »
This was another early trail build day with just Phil and Tom present. We continued cutting out a route in the woods on the East side of the pitch. None of this was ever used – we went for a more direct line as a temporary measure and that was then adopted as the proper
Trail build report: 18th Oct – route cutting on East side Read More »
This was a trail build day with just Phil and Tom present. We carried on cutting out the new line on the North side of the pitch and also cut a load of new route on the East side. The North part was tweeked slightly on later build days: a section was moved further up
Trail build report: 12th Oct – route cutting on North and East side Read More »
This was a build evening for Phil and Tom. When we arrived then the basis of a route on the North side of the pitch had already been marked out by Steve Smith and his wife. They were responsible for the trail at that time, relinquishing this to Phil in early 2009. We quickly reached
Trail build report: 11th Oct – route cutting on North side Read More »
