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 …
Trail build report: 30 people, 20 tonnes (start, exit, mway1, east side) Read More »
We had to shoehorn this build day into our busy calendar of events. Originally we only had 3 people down to attend! Ignoring the claims that mothering Sunday was the problem then a campaign was started to see if we could improve the numbers. The plan for the day was simple: shift 20 tonnes of …
Trail build day (20 tonnes shifted & start, North, East sides fixed). Read More »
This was a follow on from our initial drainage work and the nocturnal digging session the previous evening. At 1:30pm we had Phil Mayger, Jerome Crametz and myself (Tom) ready to dig a canal. We found Chris Hopkinson wandering around the trail and he joined us. We linked the ditch that I’d dug the previous evening with …
Trail build report: Sat 5th Jan 2013 – east side drainage & triangle tweek Read More »
We’d made a start on draining a large puddle on the OCD (obsessive compulsive drainage) session a week earlier. This was a 2 hour digging session on my own where I drained the remaining water out of the last remaining puddle. I started at 4pm and it was dark by 5pm so I used my …
Trail build report: Fri 4th Jan 2013 – east side drainage Read More »
This was a bonus build session on the Saturday after Christmas. When I arrived at the special festive late start time of 11am then I found Phil Mayger, Phil Allum, Jez, Gary Palmer and Shaun Carolin standing in the rain raring to go. After the heavy rain then we found plenty of OCD (obsessive compulsive …
Trail build report: Sat 29th Dec 2012 – OCD work (start, mway, east side,triangle) Read More »
On the previous build day we’d surfaced about half of the trail section on the East side of the pitch (build report). Our plans for the day were to surface the remaining 120m. We’d had 20 tonnes of type 1 limestone chippings delivered on Friday morning. Things began at 9am when I arrived and Brandon …
Trail build report: Sat 10th Dec, East side of pitch Read More »
This was a Saturday afternoon meet. A group consisting of Pete, Tom, Simon, Mike and Anne moved bricks and rubble from the car park to locations near the East side of the pitch. These are going to be used in the future to surfrace the only remaining stretch of unsurfaced trail. This project will take …
