Bride Stones Revisited.
Kasher and Frank H returned to consolidate the temporary work done a couple of weeks ago on an open access stile. The day was cloudy with a gusting breeze and occasional drizzle . . . ideal incentives to keep working!
Start of session.
The original stile had a very narrow gap (less than 400 mm!) and one suspect side-post. How suspect?
This suspect . . .
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| 1. Probe with 200 mm shank pushed easily into suspect post |
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| 2. Opposite side of same post! |
The plan was to replace the side-post but make the stile gap wider so it would become an easy 'swing leg over' stile rather than the tricky 'lift leg through' version.
Work in progress:
Inspection time!
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| 3. Work in progress i): New post in place (to right). Rotten post (in centre) yet to be removed. |
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| 4. Work in progress ii) view from opposite side : Old post now removed so new stile has wider gap |
Inspection time!
Here comes quality control . . . with considered comments!
"Mmm! Pretty neat. We see what you have done:
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| 5. "Just checking on you guys and the standard of your work. Don't panic, we're really friendly." |
*New side-post positioned so as to match the remaining original post.
*Old, decayed post removed.
*Stock fence and barbed wire next to new post adjusted, re-fixed and re-tensioned.
*Barbed wire adjacent to posts, de-barbed.
*Diagonal braces added to the side-posts because very rocky ground limits the depth to which the new post could be embedded
*Short central post put in place to improve rigidity and stability of the whole structure.
*Cross-rails in place."
End of the session:
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| 6. A stable, easy to negotiate stile, but it might need another cross-rail to solve a minor problem created by a quirk of the original fencing pattern! |
Today's work was funded by donations to CROWS. Many thanks.
