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| I'm down there in the fog, apparently. |
Dave and I planted all Saturday's leftover plants (nearly 200 of them). It was foggy where we were, but only yards p the lane it was sunny, as per pic.
Totals planted so far 450 Hawthorn, 150 blackthorn, 15 each of Hazel, Dog Rose, Crab apple and Field Maple.
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| My feet, and a load of plants, resting. |
Today we were up above Slaithwaite, beginning some hedge planting.
We were; myself, Jess, Tanya, Stephen K., Stephen M., Steve, Hap, Dave, Geoff, Philip, Michael, Heidi, and Matthew. Plus the owner and two colleagues.
We planted approx. 300 Hawthorn, 100 Blackthorn, 10 Hazel, 10 Crab Apple, 10 Field Maple and 10 Dog Rose.
From now til Christmas it'll be Christmas tunes!
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| Kayleigh and Tanya |
This morning we were in the woods alongside Marsden golf course this morning. Stephen, Dave, Philip, Kayleigh and Tanya were practising with the chainsaws and winch, thinning some small nurse species larch, and felling some leaning and falling over trees. I was across the other side of the clough moving some tree stakes to where they will be needed when we replant some of the wildfire areas.
All the woodland management team were appropriately dressed, to the max.
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| Dave applying tension. |
Afterwards there was the pre-season meeting, and we were joined by Richard, Cath, John, Hap and Jess.
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| Jess sees through us. |
A day of a few parts. Geoff, Stephen, Dave, Hap, Kayleigh, Jess, Tanya and Peter were at the nursery cross cutting and splitting logs.
I met up with Philip and Duncan to go visit a prospective new site.
Then I went up to Scammonden to do a soil depth survey for a planned planting area (required by our patrons, so that they can safely rule out the presence of deep peat).
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| Peter and Geoff admire their own work. |
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