RISHWORTH - Heys Lane
Ian S and Paul continued work on repairing a stile at the bottom end of Heys Lane, where the footpath leads off in the direction of Ringstone Edge Reservoir. A previous work party had cleared overgrown stone steps leading up to the stile and replaced a rotted stile leg. Our job today was to finish off the stile repair.
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| Ian removing the stile cross pieces. |
On investigation both stile posts were rotten at the base and the majority of the cross rails had seen better days so it was a case of dismantling the stile structure to install new posts and to see what we could re-use.
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| Cross rails taken off and one new post installed. |
We had brought along one new post as we thought the second post was reusable, however this was not the case. Fortunately, we had also brought with us a finger post to replace a previous one that had rotted. With a bit of ingenuity, we used the finger post as the second post!
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| Here we are positioning the new cross rails! |
Fixing the two new stile posts into place we then moved on to nailing on three new cross rails to a repositioned fence post.
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| New cross rails installed and finger post upright in position. |
The site was tidied up and side gaps filled in to prevent livestock escaping. The finished article:
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| Job complete! |
Work funded by Ripponden Council and individual donations.
