The day started with a CALVAG delivery. An enthusiastic team of unloaders and stackers moved a significant quantity of timber into the depot's storage racks.
Several work teams then departed to work on tasks in the Luddenden Valley (see separate post) leaving Ken and Frank H to cut a large supply of risers, stobs, stile treadboards, and stile step legs etc before cleaning up the saw and sweeping out the depot.
They then departed for a part day of work on a pedestrian gate (accessing footpath Todmorden 015) at Keelham Farm which is down a track off Eastwood Road (see map).
This work is a continuation of the task started a couple of weeks ago and is being funded by individual donations to CROWS. Many thanks.
The detail
1. The situation was as follows:
The original access to the path was through an old stone 'squeeze' gap. The much larger gap between stockfence and drystone wall now has a cumbersome, heavy pallet doing service as a primitive gate/barrier.
2. A couple of weeks ago (see blog for 17th Feb) Kasher and David worked in very wet conditions to dig holes for new gate posts and managed to install the hinge-post. Despite what the photographs suggested it is exactly vertical. Well done guys!
3. Today, Ken and Frank H 'hung' the pedestrian gate that they made in the depot, constructed side-rails to run from the hinge-post to one of the original stone posts and tidied up a short section of the adjacent but ramshackled drystone wall.
This photo shows the new gate in the fully open position with side rails linking the hinge-post to the stonework of the old gap stile.
Next session will see the installation of the closure-post, a gate-spring, a closure loop and some short side-rails to link the post to nearby fencing. The field should then be safely enclosed with access through the gate . . . and no enormously heavy pallet to shift!
