Today should have been at Erddig but unfortunately they had to cancel at the last minute so a big thank you to Lyme Park for coming up with a workday for us. It is much appreciated.
We met ranger Jason in the main car park and as there were only four of us he said we could park in the volunteer car park by the stables. Phew! That saved a steep walk.
Our job was to remove deer fencing up in Lantern Wood, so Jason loaded up the Kabuto with our bags etc. and we met him up at the top.
Youth rangers had been working on the two sections in the week so it turns out that we didn't need to remove many staples or lift out many of the inner posts we mainly had to collect the posts and stack them. Then we pulled all the metal fencing down onto an even path and rolled it up. Easy bit done now we had to take out the straining posts.
Well to cut a long story short, after a lot of hard work, especially in the heat, we managed it, and I do mean hard work as they were tall posts that were in the ground by a good 3 feet.
After we had moved everything from both worksites and stacked in one spot ready for collection, we made our way down to an area behind the gardens where we started to remove tree guards. On the way down David and Victor decided that the way to get from one side of a wall to the other was via the dog hole rather than the stile!
It was a very hot day and a big thank you goes out to my colleagues and Jason for their hard work in these conditions, and also for their company.
Christine
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