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 problem then a campaign was started to see if we could improve the numbers. The plan for the day was simple: shift 20 tonnes of […]
Trail build day (20 tonnes shifted & start, North, East sides fixed). Read More »
We made massive progress at the recent build days (trail patching Sat and Sun plus some drainage work 2 3). We want to meet up for a few hours and shift some material that’s ready to go in the triangle area…right where it says “stockpile” in the photo below. (This session is in place of the postponed
Bonus trail build session (half day). Read More »
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 »
We made massive progress at the December build weekend (Saturday). We want to meet up for a few hours and shift a load of material to fix a section of trail that’s sunk. We’ve got rocks and chippings nearby so the job should only take a few hours. We’ll be meeting in the car park
Bonus trail build session (half day). Read More »
We’d made good progress on the previous day – more than half the 20 tonne pile of material had been shifted. Our plans for this day were to patch up more trail on the north side of the pitch and to move material to the triangle area using Rafe and his Land Rover. Things started at
Trail build report: Sun 16th Dec 2012 – trail patching Piper’s and North side Read More »
The date of this event has been changed from the 9th to the 16th of Dec. This will be the last build weekend of 2012. We’ll be having a rest in early 2013 whilst we wait for tree felling work to be completed. So please make every effort to come along on one of the
Final trail build day 2012 (date changed) Read More »
After a week of frosty mornings then we expected to turn up to find the ground frozen solid. As luck would have it the weather turned warmer on Friday and we were promised a bit of rain. Saturday morning dawned with no rain in sight, so we were feeling lucky again. Our plans for the
Trail build report: Sat 15th Dec 2012 – trail patching South side Read More »
The date has been changed from the 8th to the 15th. This will be the last build weekend of 2012. We’ll be having a rest in early 2013 whilst we wait for tree felling work to be completed. So please make every effort to come along on one of the days and contribute. We’ll be
Penultimate trail build day 2012 (date changed) Read More »
