Earthline delivered 20 tonnes of type 1 limestone to the car park today. This is going to be shifted on the upcoming trail build day (our trail build days are always listed on the events page). It’s going to be used to finish of the triangle entrance and for resurfacing jobs (west side of pitch, […]
Trail build report: 1st March 2012 – 20 tonnes delivered Read More »
It snowed on the previous day and then thawed out on Sunday morning. This was good in terms being able to dig the ground, but not good in terms of water levels. We had planned on resurfacing the back straight using material that we’d already moved. In the ideal world then new trail should be
Trail build report: Sun 5th Feb Final triangle surfacing Read More »
Six month’s of trail building compressed in a video. This was during a time when a lot of trail was surfaced with limestone chippings in order to make it all weather. Direct link
Trail build video 2010-2011 Read More »
After a mild January the temperatures had dropped below zero and a cold weekend with the possibility of snow was forecast. I arrived at 9am to meet Brandon hire who were delivering the compactor and found a keen volunteer already there waiting to go. After I collected the tools then we started loading rubble sacks
Trail build report: Sat 4th Feb – Resurfacing + 21 tonnes moved Read More »
Earthline delivered another 20 tonnes of limestone at the trail today. This will be used to finish the triangle section on the upcoming build days (see our events calendar for build days). I’ll add up how much we got through last year soon. I think it’s over 100 tonnes. Trail build update page.
Trail build report: Limestone delivery Read More »
Newly surfaced trail from the previous day. We’d made great progress on the previous day. The tasks for this day were to finish off a few patches in the triangle, spread the limestone dust onto the surface and to make more progress with the exit section. Kristian, John Proudman, Gary Lee, Karl and Cameron spent
Trail build report: Sun 15th Jan 2012, Triangle surfacing + exit Read More »
The temperature gauge in my car was showing minus 4.5 degrees C as I drove round Cirencester at 8:15am on Saturday morning. It was cold and it was dry. Cold and dry doesn’t feel as cold without dry. There was a frost but the ground wasn’t frozen. Streaming sunlight had fixed that. Brandon Hire dropped
Trail build report: Sat 14th Jan 2012, Triangle surfacing Read More »
A quick review of what we got up to last year: 15th Oct 2010: 60 tonnes delivered Dec 2010 trail build plans. 28th Dec 2010: new line before triangle. Sat 8th Jan 2011: motorway 2 berms and surfacing. Sun 9th Jan: largest turnout (16 people!) motorway 2 surfacing. Sat 22nd / Sun 23rd Jan: Surfacing
Trail build history 2011 Read More »
After finishing off the East side on the previous day we decided to fix the section of trail on the South side of the pitch. This had originally been built in December 2008 and modified in September 2009. It had turned really muddy this year – a combination of the original surfaced line being too
Trail build report: Sun 11th Dec, South side of pitch 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 »
