  ACWA Working Party
On 20-Jul-2011 a Working Party replaced one stile on Millennium
Way (MW), and installed one new k/g on Walk 1/MW, on the Broad
Lane to Back Lane MW leg.
Trying to work out how to dig holes in a
concrete rubble road : 20-Jul-2011
July Achievements
The days task sounded as if it would be a simple
installation of two metal k/g. BUT one of them was at the
entrance to the farm track leaving Broad Lane, which involved
fitting in with the farmer's plan to install a f/g, and SMBC actions
to clear away dumped rubbish and flush out the culvert going under
Broad Lane. We spent some time clearing undergrowth and
branches in preparation, and then in helping the SMBC team clear the
rubbish, then more waiting for the farmer to come with the new
f/g.
Digging out the old slam post for the f/g proved hard work,
solved in the end by digging a new hole just in front of the old
one. Digging the holes for the new k/g was also a challenge,
because the whole entrance area was well compacted concrete
rubble! By 3:00pm however we cracked it, and we believe it was
a job well done!
The second k/g had it's own difficulties, but that was finished
an hour or so earlier. For more photos, including both sites
as finished visit
SkyDrive.
Plans
Either in August or September we expect to return to the same
area to replace the two stiles on Walk 1, and maybe install a new
sleeper bridge &/or dig out the ditch.
The next full session planned is:
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Wednesday 17th August 2011 at 9:30 am
to about 1:00 pm |
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Location: |
On Walk 1 between Broad Lane and
Back Lane |
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Park at: |
On verge of Broad Lane or
point 7 - then walk to meeting
point |
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Meet at: |
Meeting Point where Walk 1 leaves Broad
Lane (GR 263 797 Point 5 on
map) |
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Task(s): |
Replace stiles at site 3 and site 6
with k/g. At site 3, we wll probably also add
sleeper bridge crossing the muddy shallow ditch &/or dig
the ditch deeper from there to the deep ditch
towrds Broad Lane.
see Map
for Details |
The expected remaining 2011 dates are:
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Wednesday 17-Aug-2011
Wednesday 21-Sep-2011 |
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Wednesday 19-Oct-2011
Wednesday 16-Nov-2011 |
Why not volunteer to join us whenever you can?
Please contact Bob Carey on 024 7645
5251 for further
information.
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