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

  • Post author:Rafe
  • Post published:February 23, 2014
  • Post category:Croft Diary
  • Post comments:1 Comment

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…

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

Trail build day (20 tonnes shifted & start, North, East sides fixed).

  • Post author:Rafe
  • Post published:March 10, 2013
  • Post category:Croft Diary
  • Post comments:1 Comment

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…

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Trail build report: Sat 5th Jan 2013 – east side drainage & triangle tweek

  • Post author:Rafe
  • Post published:January 5, 2013
  • Post category:Croft Diary
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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…

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Trail build report: Fri 4th Jan 2013 – east side drainage

  • Post author:Rafe
  • Post published:January 4, 2013
  • Post category:Croft Diary
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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…

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Trail build report: Sat 29th Dec 2012 – OCD work (start, mway, east side,triangle)

  • Post author:Rafe
  • Post published:December 29, 2012
  • Post category:Croft Diary
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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,…

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Trail build report: Sat 10th Dec, East side of pitch

  • Post author:Rafe
  • Post published:December 10, 2011
  • Post category:Croft Diary
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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…

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Build report: Sat 16th April 2011

  • Post author:Rafe
  • Post published:April 16, 2011
  • Post category:Croft Diary
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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…

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