Mount Skip: Hebden Bridge Golf Club
On an idyllic, blue-skied sunny day, Nick, Steve and Frank H carried out repair work on a stile where footpath Hebden Royd 024 leaves the golf course boundary just above the club house (see map)
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| 1. Location: The blue 'pin' marks the worksite. |
The session was mainly spent on stile-step replacement and some repair/stabilisation of a short, ditch-crossing boardwalk. Today's work was funded by general donations to CROWS. Many thanks.
The detail:
i). The boardwalk.
Here is a picture taken about a month ago.
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| 2. Damaged cross-tread. |
This short boardwalk, which crosses a shallow ditch to reach a boundary stile, is still serviceable but will need replacing in the near future. For the moment, however, replacing a broken cross-tread and stabilising the whole structure was judged to be sufficient.
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| 3. A cross-tread replaced . . . but can you spot it? |
ii). The stile.
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| 4. Stile step-legs before work begins |
Of the four original step legs only one (the taller leg in the picture) was not affected by decay. Unusually, the step-legs have been installed so they touch one another which can create problems when fitting the treadboards and also makes foot placement awkward.
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| 5. Start of work. |
Top treadboard removed and remnants of step-leg being dug out. The surviving tall step-leg was sound and very firmly embedded. We left it in place and 'worked around' its slight misalignment
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| 6. Progress! |
New taller step-leg and top treadboard replaced. Short step-leg in place and cross-braced to taller leg.
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| 7. End of session: time for a stress test! Will it take a load? Never in doubt! |
Two-step stile repaired. Stone step-ups have been built to aid transition from boardwalk to stile. The boardwalk has been stabilised and approach areas tidied.
This is perhaps not the neatest stile CROWS has built but it is safe, secure and functional . . . and gives easy access to the moor when those pesky wayward golf balls have to be retrieved!
