Once more up at Netherwood. We were: myself, Geoff, Matthew, Paul, Peter, Tanya, Kayleigh, Dave, Shell, Stephen, and Jess. Hacking our way through the brambles and removing old plastic tree guards.
Saturday, 4 September 2021
Saturday, 28 August 2021
Safety dance
Really only one song title suitable for this week.
A new knife safety regime began today. We are doing more work with knives, cutting and removing plastic tree guards for re-use. However this has seemed to result in two quite bad accidents with those knives this year, trips to casualty in both cases.
So we trialled two types of new knife today. Safety parcel cutters, with a fixed but entirely enclosed blade, picture below, and a much more expensive and more complex knife with an auto self retract blade.
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| Other brands are available, but these were big and sturdy. |
I also gave people level 3 cut protection gloves, which were probably overkill for using the parcel cutters, but should be used with other bladed tools we have, such as saws, billhooks, sickles etc.
We were at Netherwood, and we were; myself, Geoff, Steve, Sarah, Dave, Michael and Paul.
https://youtu.be/0QDKLglEP5Y
Saturday, 14 August 2021
Falling and laughing
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| Steve points and laughs at a fallen tree. He's a fun gi. |
Today Geoff led the charge at Scammonden SC6 for yet more guard removal. He was joined by Steve, Cath, Kayleigh, Jess, Shelley and Dave.
Philip and I were doing a bit of light woodland management at Tanya's. More trees falling, and more laughing.
Our tree order goes in on Monday morning. 5910 new trees and shrubs for the valley.
Saturday, 31 July 2021
Program for light
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| Jess , Sophie and Michael with slashers. |
This week was the final week or our program for light for the Wessenden trees. Knocking back the shady bracken. We were: myself, Philip, Dave, Hap, Stephen, Kayleigh, Jess, Sophie, Michael, Paul and Julia.
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