Today six volunteers felled ash trees in the Orchard plantation and built dead hedges along the edge of the brook. We worked at the orchard end of the reserve well away from a team of BTCV guys working in the Pump Track area.
January 28, 2010
January 21, 2010
Green Gym 21 January 2010
Today 8 volunteers worked on trees along the footpath between Savages Wood and the School playing fields. Once again much of the work was surgical removing rotten or cankered branches. Most of the work was concentrated upon two trees an Ash and a Willow. This gave two locations for dead hedges and a mini hedge building competition began. We were very pleased to have Jenny Darwin and Udan out with us today.
This is an ongoing task which we will return to in future times. For now we switch our attention to the Orchard plantation where we begin felling next week. We understand BTCV have already started work in this plantation, hopefully on the Pump Track.
January 14, 2010
Green Gym 14 January 2010
Today’s GG went ahead after all dispite some earlier chickening out bythe Project Leader. Four volunteers set out to coppice along the path from the LC car park. It is fair to say we did little coppicing and rather more tree surgery as several of the smaller trees/shrubs along the edge of Savages Wood are suffering from being under the hornbeams and had rotting sections which we removed.
Back again next week to carry on.
January 7, 2010
Green Gym 7 January 2010
A massive turnout of volunteer (sic) spent today’s session at the tool store. In view of the prevailing temperature I decided not to attempt to sharpen any edged tools but I did manage to:
* Clean and oil (vegetable and linseed as appropriate) all tools
* Do an inventory of all TBNCG/GG stock. (List to be circulated as appropriate later)
* Tidy up the shelves
* And sweep the floor
A couple of minor changes:
* All maintenance gear (tools ,rags, candles etc.) is now in the large green container on a lower shelf of the r/h unit.
* I have put 2/3 days supply of storm kettle fuel (shavings, teasel and cow parsley stalks, small and medium twigs and some paper (not a lot ‘cos it is all a bit damp) in an old bucket covered with a plastic bag so now it is in a waterproof container. I think it will be the responsibility of whoever is tasked with fetching tools etc. to make sure this bucket is replenished and materials collected each week and brought back to the store to dry.