You need to calm down

Back to Throstle Green Farm for another (short) morning of felling and logging. We were: Stephen, myself, Dave and John. Still work to do on Saturday.

At one point an ex-colleague of ours hurled homophobic abuse at as as he cycled past. And not in a friendly way (which wouldn't be possible anyway, it being homophobic and all). We were somewhat surprised, but we gave a genuinely polite reply, as he sped off.

Taylor said it best:

https://youtu.be/Dkk9gvTmCXY

Pull dub

 

Ah, look, Geoff has a little doggie friend.

Another morning of two halves.

Myself, Philip, Stephen, Hap, Adrian, John and Dave were at Throstle Green Farm to fell some trees growing too close to the roadside. Philip and Stephen had their chainsaws and everyone had full PPE. We had to buy a winch and some cable in order to fell a couple of these safely.

Meanwhile, at Scammonden, Geoff (birthday boy), Jess, Lee ,Sophie, Steve, Jon and Tess were carrying on the reclamation work.

One of the expertly felled tall larch.

Some gentle electronica this week.

https://youtu.be/ayjladnljoE

505

 

Continued work at the same spot at Scammonden as last week then down to the bottom of the hill in a Hap-inspired coda to finish off removing guards from the hawthorn we started on a couple of weeks ago. Weather bright but decidely cold in the brisk northerly, though it warmed up a bit as time wore on, and it was a thoroughly enyoyable morning. Still more guard removal and remedial work to do on the oak and rowan at the top. We were Lee, Jess, Adrian, Hap and Geoff.

https://youtu.be/MrmPDUvKyLs

Songs a bit random, 5 people, 505 by Arctic monkeys. Hey, I'm not getting any prompts from participants while I am away, so there it is.

Cold irons bound

 

This week we were removing guards, mainly from some Scot's pine, from a spot below Sledge Gate, to the east of last week's Scammonden session that stretches east all the way across to the track leading down from road. We also did some remedial work on a stand of oak (and rowan) immediately below the pine. These oak trees have suffered a bit in the prominent but exposed position, and relatively poor soil, and are quite small for their age compared to those sheltered by the Italian alder of last week. They are growing steadily, if very slowly, but some have fallen over and the stakes (and guards) needed replacing for quite a few: a bit of young tree tlc basically. More to do at this site next time. Weather was fine, chilly at first but warming up later.

 

We were: Geoff, Cath, Hap, Dave, Ben, Steve, and arriving later, Dianne, Adam, Susan and Susan's sister (?)

Apropos of nowt, a bit of Bob.

https://youtu.be/9hO-83CIVKM