This was the completion of a job started in July this year following a request from Calderdale Long Distance Walkers who also funded the work- a big thank you to them. It was hoped to be a relatively simple job for a Friday but as Jerry, Graham and Angus were to discover, this was not the case!
Location of today's work site shown along the blue arrow.
Things started off simply enough - a bit of stimming, some cutting back, minor pruning of low/fallen branches and the installation of a markerpost to show the best direction across the adjacent access land.
The first section to be strimmed back.
If you look carefully at the above image you will see two strands of barbed wire which sag downwards from the strainer post into the grass. What Jerry discovered, over a stretch of about 50 m, was that they led to several buried posts and three lengths of barbed wire tangled into the grass! When the previous fence had been replaced, the old one had just been left lying on the ground to become partly overgrown.
This posed a significant risk to 2 and 4 legged walkers, not only as a trip hazard but also, of more concern, as a potential source of puncture wounds to feet and paws. We set about exposing the wire and carefully removed it from the buried posts (which we also extracted) and rolled it up. Despite it being high-tensile and extremely "springy", the removal was completed without injury . . . other than a torn waterproof.
Three rolls of wire now removed and taken off site.
No such drama on the second section, so job done!
Air-bnb anyone?
