Safe from harm

 

Remy stays safe.

Still waiting for our trees to arrive, so we spent the morning moving 2100 large wooden stakes to our first planting site. And refilling our log store.

Based at the nursery were myself, Adrian, Dianne, Remy and Ben.

At the Marsden site were Geoff, Jess, Lee, Tanya, Michael, Jo, Cath, Peter and Steve. Philip and Stephen were also there but working separately to mark out the fields.

Driving between these two teams were Dave, Richard, and Jon and Tessie.

Duncan and Matthew arrived when the fun was all over!

HSE Covid19 risk assessment for outdoor work done. And followed.

Lots of stakes

https://youtu.be/PKtTmZnVhhI

Work, work, work

Another fractured morning, but very productive..

Stephen, Philip, Hap and Dave were at Throstle. They used the winch for felling a group of 4 ash that had been growing too close to the road. Plus felled two more ash and a leaning larch.

Geoff, Peter, Remy, Cath, Tanya, Ben, and Michael were at the nursery splitting, sawing and stacking wood. And also loading the van with planting materials for our first site.

The van was manned by Duncan and Matthew, wearing masks, who shuttled between the nursery and the planting site at Marsden.

Myself and John, plus later Adrian, Duncan and Matthew unloaded the van at Marsden, and moved all the materials down to some old stables for storage. 2100 deer guards, 100 stakes for pine, 725 stakes for short guards, 250 shrub guards, and 500 Hare guards.

As we were finishing at Marsden, and John and I were walking down the hill, the promised rain arrived in earnest.

https://youtu.be/EhLPQi1a_iM

Chain (of fools)

 

Back to Throstle this morning for another session of woodland management. We were: myself, Philip, Stephen, John, Dave and Hap.

Philip's new chain broke, but he managed to chew his way through some trees with an old one.

We thought we might finish today, but looks like another session necessary to remove some dead ash.

Lots of logs now at nursery for cross cutting, splitting, stacking, drying and selling.

https://youtu.be/o0s5CP2kXsc

Isolation (not the song you think)

This morning was a three-fer.

I assigned myself to the nursery, on the principle that Dave would need help unloading and stacking logs. Sadly this message didn't get through to the chainsaw boys, who spent the morning felling larch and leaving it where it lay. So hardly any logs arrived, and the ones that did were felled on Thursday.

Stephen, Philip, Dave, Hap, Adrian and John were at Throstle Green. 

Geoff, Cath, Tanya, Sophie and Jess were at Scammonden deguarding.

https://youtu.be/N8lOLNfnCBg