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 »
Whilst Phil was at work I did an easy job – I changed the trail line approaching the woodwork near the start so there wasn’t a sharp bend on the way in. This was near impossible to ride when damp. After Phil arrived then we straightened out some sharp corners in the sectino that we …
Trail build report: 24th Jan – flood, corner cutting & berm Read More »
A deluge of rain meant that some of the woodwork section had floated away. We spent the morning retrieving the missing sections. We tackled the source of the problem by removing overgrown trees from the banks of the river. (At a later date the council came along and cut a massive branch away downstream and …
Trail build report: 14th Dec 2008 – flood. Rock moving to Piper’s hill Read More »
