Saturday 30th January

The goal of our first working party was to get all our kit ready for the work. The club owns 4 vehicles to do most of it's track work with all earth moving done by hired in contractors.


Above : Colin P, Alan C and Peter Burton.

We all went over the farm and collected from the barn that we rent (hence why we like to build our own barn - another story for another day) the two main tractors. In the photo above, you can see the guys with our Ford tractor, attaching some weights. We brought these weights at a farm sale (green mean John Deere I think) and Brian E built us a weight frame (dark green) to mount them on and after some searching by Brian Bearman we attached it. We've thus finally got around to adding the weights, but low and behold the bar to secure them on doesn't quiet fit, so we've roped them together for now!

We use this lovely 1970's era tractor to pull a trailer around full of fencing and tools. The poor thing had it's door stolen a few years back when it used to be stored outside (hence we rent a barn), but it's still great and many a person has learned to drive in it!


Above : Our Case tractor.

The other job was to attach our post driver, and give it some TLC. The barn we store it in has a low roof, so we have to lay the boom over which involves some hairy trickery! We also broke the door last year (no names, but for once not me!), and that is off at the moment having it's hinge welded and new glass put in. The post driver makes putting in stakes so much easier than the old skool manual method!

See you there!