Due to a last minute change of worksite (we were supposed to be at Chirk) we had a bumper turnout of volunteers for Alderley Edge on Sunday 15th September. 12 people came out on what became a very bad weather day and due to the torrential rain we ended up finishing just after lunchtime. The ranger was at Bosley Cloud with another group and they gave up earlier than we did! MNTV'ers are hardened to the weather!!
We met in the NT car park next to the Wizard Tea Room and Jenny guided us to the ranger compound to collect our tools which was a short walk from the car park..... we should have given up at the compound.... it had seating and shelter! After collecting the tools we made our way to a hawthorn hedge which at the side of a footpath crossing a field. This was the first task... cutting back the hedge and putting the cuttings back into the hedge.
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| Hedge trimming (before trim) |
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| Hedge (after trim) |
After tea break the rest of the group made our way over to the second task of the day which was clearing grass/vegetation from a path. At this point the group split into two and another group attended to a fence that needed removing.
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| Removing old fence |
After removing a number of fence panels and posts the final fence post proved very difficult to remove and with a group effort it was eventually taken out.
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| Removing last fence post... trying to! |
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| Five people to remove a post! |
Around lunchtime the rain had really started to come down heavily and everyone was tired and getting cold so we went back to the ranger compound for lunch, we were joined by the ranger and we all decided to call it a day.
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