TODMORDEN: Portsmouth

 Portsmouth: More teetering!

Mick and Frank H continued with the work started on Friday above Windy Bank Wood,where a section of the Burnley Way coincides with the footpath (Todmorden 055) that leads up towards Brown Birks.

The task was:

1. Unload the car then . . . a long carry of tools and materials!

2. Construct revetment and widen the path at a particularly precipitous point.

Today's work was funded by a donation from the 'Todmorden Wind Farm Fund' accessed through the 'Community Foundation for Calderdale'. Many thanks.

Also many thanks to the residents of Monkroyd House for permission to park there . . .  otherwise the walk-in would have been much further!

The details

1. Start of session

Mick and Frank managed to get all the tools and stobs to the worksite in a single carry. Mmm! Heroic! 

Here's a picture of the area needing revetment:

The idea was to add another length of revetment to go just to the left of the large stone (top centre of the picture) and then to cut back the left-hand banking to create a widened, graded path that would be a safer distance from the precipitous edge.

2. Progress:

2a. Aerial view of revetment (foreground
obscured by the shadows of tree branches!).

2b. Reverse view of the revetment
 . . . and of Mick having lunch.

The task went smoothly and showers that threatened petered out almost as soon as we had donned waterproofs - it was one of those 'on and off' sort of days. Fortunately, in contrast to Friday, making the stob holes to anchor the revetment rail was much easier . . . . or perhaps Frank was being more vigorous with the heavy iron bar! . . .  and there was an abundant supply of rubble, fine spoil and turf for grading the path and landscaping the edges.!

A passing dog walker thanked us for our work commenting how much easier the path had become, and, if body language is anything to go by, the friendly, happy, enthusiastic dog was in total agreement! Thank you!

We have more work to do in this area. A confusing junction lower down the path needs a marker post and the stile near Monkroyd House needs new legs for the steps. Those could be Friday's tasks.