MYTHOLMROYD: In the depot

 Mount Shed tasks:

Today was a morning session for Linda H, Ken, Catherine and Frank H to carry out several in-house tasks prior to the CROWS business meetings in the afternoon.

The morning started with a CALVAG timber delivery of rails, posts and poles that will eventually become revetments, risers, cross-treads, kickboards, stobs, marker posts and stile uprights. CALVAG were slightly early but so was Frank who managed to shift and store most of the items before further help arrived!

Here's how the day went starting with Ken on the power saw:

1. "Ken! Watch the saw blade! You are using 
your last set of fingers!"

Some of the sawing tasks were shared around to increase our supply of:

Stile side-posts (with shaped tops)

Stile step legs

Standard stobs

Long stobs

Short marker posts (with shaped tops)

Boardwalk cross-treads . . .

. . . the last item, about 45 in number, were all pre-drilled by Linda. (Pre-drilling in a dry workshop is easier and less time-consuming than doing so on a wet worksite - provided of course you know exactly where the holes should be!)

2. "There's the list! It states exactly what
should be in the tool bags! Mmm!" 

As well as drilling cross-treads, Linda checked that all the tool bags contained a standard amount of kit. 

Overall, no tools were missing but migration of items is a popular (and very mysterious) activity!

3. Mmm! "Since when have old nails, broken
marker disks and bits of barbed wire been
standard items of the 'general kits!"

The CROWS' marker kits contain a set of standard items for waymarking and minor pruning work.

As Catherine found out, sometimes volunteers get creative as to what should be in the kits! 

Two extra pruning saws, a lump hammer, three trowels, old nails, a broken marker disk and some barbed wire is the current record!

It was a fruitful morning and 3+ hours saw all the above done but in addition . . . :

. . . an azad was repaired; the azad tubs were emptied of muddy water, swilled out and re-filled; all azads were colour-coded according to size; loppers and shears were cleaned and oiled; all bars were marked with a yellow band to indicate standard depth of pilot holes; the power saw was cleaned; the sawdust extractor bag was changed and minor items for a job on Friday bagged up as were the boardwalk timbers for a job next Wed. 

The final task was to sweep out the whole depot . . . steps included!

Good work, guys . . . top condition all round . . . long may it last!