Beautiful weather tempted eight NCVs, three heritage skills students and their two tutors out for yet another day of battling with the rhododendrons of Fishpond Wood.
Anita reported that:
"Ed, Tom and Carl (students) worked like Trojans, cutting back at the top of the bank near the ice house, with a band of brash pile builders struggling to keep up with them. Paul was busy with the chain saw down at the pond, with Graham and Terry pulling huge branches out of the water. Graham was close to going in on occasions, but not quite! Some really neat brash piles were built. There is a bit more tidying up to do next week, but the pond is looking good."
Here are some more photos to log the progress made....
The rhodies at the top of the bank loomed large....
.....but that didn't deter the team.
No need for a chain saw with us on the job!
Slowly but surely the woodland floor was revealed.
Meanwhile, down at the pond....
Paul checked out where his chain saw would be needed.
Some stems are just too thick for an NCV's bow saw.
Phil and Julia heaped up the cut stems to the side of the path.
Was Terry being health and safety conscious
or just taking time out to do a bit of angling?
Graham, the bold, balanced on the make-shift bridge
in order to reach those tantalisingly close rhodies.
Osian took time out to demonstrate the splits.
The real shape of the lake is now visible. The weeks of hard work are paying off.
Quick - get the digger in to remove the silt, before the rhodies start to grow back!!
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