Jerry and Jak set out to reinstate a waymark post that had been put into the river. The post had been recovered earlier this week and given some time to dry out.
The post had been in quite a shallow hole previously because of the large amount of stone below the surface. This time we were going to make sure that the hole was deep enough and we took some other measures to prevent vandalism.
The actual hole took a long time to dig because of the quantity of large and stubborn rock that had to be moved. The hole ended up being almost four times the size of the post!
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| Jerry in the hole |
"Deadmen" were added to the post. Normally these are something that we curse at when trying to get old posts out of the ground. They were added to posts to anchor them very tightly in the ground. In this instance a speedy technique was adopted.
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| "Deadmen" at bottom of post |
The hole was then filled in using donated 'postcrete' or 'postfix'.
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| Post-crete in |
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| Back filling |
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| Post in place to guide walkers along the path |
For this hole, the ground was thankfully much kinder and the job was quickly completed.
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| Signpost back in place |
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| Lovely views in this spot |
This work was funded by donations in kind and donations to CROWS. Many thanks all.
