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’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 »
This was a bonus trail build day. The aim was to finish off various jobs ready for our open day on the 1st April 2012. We’d made great progress on the previous weekend. As normal, Brandon Hire delivered a compactor on Saturday morning. For a change Phil was there to meet them. Meanwhile I (Tom) …
Trail build report: Sat 10th March – various resurfacing jobs & signs Read More »
Saturday 19th Feb 2011 After a week of heavy rain and with many key members away on the Saturday the viability of the weekend had been questioned. In the end Phil booked the power barrow and compactor from Brandon hire and decided that the section had to be finished by the end of the weekend. …
Trail build report: Sat 19th & Sun 20th Feb 2011 Read More »
Saturday 29th Jan I spent the day smashing up a concrete path in Marlborough as a source of rubble for the trail. Friday 4th I spent the afternoon and evening moving rubble from the house in Marlborough down to the trail. Chris brought us some concrete slabs on Friday night. Saturday 5th The day began …
Phil and myself (Tom) added a short link at the start of the trail so that the start was visible from the car park. See the complete build diary. Future events are on the events calendar.
