Progress so far We’ve been busy surfacing sections of trail as described in our development plans from August 2010. The map below shows the areas that have been covered so far. Yellow sections are unsurfaced or need resurfacing. Red sections are existing surfaced areas. Black sections are parts that have been recently surfaced. The table […]
Trail build progress and plans Dec 2010 Read More »
It was another cold day with snow and ice on the ground. The sun was shining though. After Chris dropped the power barrow off then Phil and myself used the last of our remote gravel pile to do a small modification to the trail. This was on the straight section just before the start of
Trail build report: Sun 5th Dec 2010 Read More »
There was still snow and ice on the ground when we started at 9:30am. It did feel a bit warmer though and it wasn’t raining. Chris dropped the power barrow off and I (Tom) was on my own for a few hours. I decided to move some rubble on the top of Piper’s hill but
Trail build report: Sat 4th Dec 2010 Read More »
Saturday 20th Nov We spent the morning moving logs into the triangle. As you can see in the photos, they’re surfaced and they’ve got MBSwindon engraved into the side of them. Present were Rafe, Phil, Tom and Mr Anon. Then we dumped two loads of rubble onto Piper’s hill. There are still some sections here
Trail build report: Sat 20th & Sun 21st Nov 2010 Read More »
Kat, Phil and Tom spent the morning raking leaves off the trail. Jez joined us for a while too. This job is done every autumn….photo from 2009.
Trail raking session Read More »
Saturday 30th October 2010 I picked up the power barrow and whacker plate from Brandon Hire Swindon on Saturday morning. They didn’t believe that the barrow would fit in my Mk3 Golf Estate. It does, as I showed them. However, the whacker plate and planks were too much, so they delivered them in their van.
Trail build report: Sat 30th & Sun 31st October 2010 Read More »
We had 60 tonnes of chipped limestone and 10 tonnes of mud delivered to the trail (20 to triangle, 20 to Piper’s hill and 20 to car park). Our supplier Earthline used their 10 tonne truck to drop the material inside the site very close to where we planned to use it. This will save
Build report: Fri 15th Aug 2010 Read More »
We had a community payback team booked for the day. It rained all day Friday and a lot of Saturday, with more forecast for Sunday, so we weren’t sure who would turn up. There was a MBSwindon ride taking place, so we weren’t expecting a big turnout of volunteers either. As it happened, we had
Trail build report: Sun 3rd Oct 2010 Read More »
Friday 17th September Another 20 tonnes of crushed limestone was delivered at 3pm. I then had a few hours spare before the weekly evening ride round the trail (see events page for details of next ride). I decided to make further progress on my litter sweep. I filled 5 sacks in about 2 hours. Most
Trail build report: Fri 17th – Sun 19th September 2010 Read More »
This was a bit of a low key build day; we had a big push coming up the next weekend (Sat 18th Sept 2010 & Sun 19th Sept). Phil and Mr Anon fixed some of the sign posts in place. We’ve had a long term problem of a few sign posts being pulled out of
Build report: Sunday 12th Sept 2010 Read More »
