The worktask was to construct a section of chestnut cleft fencing
along one side of the track leading from the Wizard Inn to the Rangers
compound. The fencing in the entire area
around the Wizard carpark is being replaced with chestnut cleft fencing at a
cost of £6,000 – money denoted to the NT Alderley Edge by one very generous
donor!
Building the fence was straightforward. We dug four-feet deep holes at the marked spots (easy to do because the ground was loose and sandy), inserted the posts, fitted the crossbeams by sliding their tapered ends into the pre-cut mortices in the posts (with some welly from the mallet!) and then firmly tamped down the soil around the post.
At elevenses, Daniel produced a Christmas-tree-shaped (chocolate) cake. Not everyone could eat it, but those that did all enjoyed it.
It was a very satisfying workday – doing construction not destruction and in an area with lots of passersby who showed interest in what we were doing and gave us lots of compliments.
Daniel
(with thanks to Karin for the photos)
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