Same old. Same old.
The NCVs could have been excused for deciding to opt out of this week's task as, once again, it involved removing holly. This time the halo coppicing of trees in Harewell Wood. However - in true NCV style a group of 15 gritted their teeth and sallied forth to do the deed.
Here's a few pics to show you how they got on:
Here's the deep dark wood
at the start of the day.
Andrew cautiously approaches the trees
on the far side of the stream to make a start.
Happy that there were no nasties waiting
to jump out at him, he started work.
Paul got busy sharpening and hammering
in some habitat pile stakes here...
...as did Dave L. and Ken over here.
Then it was a case of dragging
the cut brash to the habitat piles.
HEAVE!!
Soon there were two brash
piles under construction.
Some of the holly trees were quite thick.
But Dave A. and Osian were not put off.
Their 2 man approach soon
won through...
...and the thick stem went crashing
to the woodland floor.
Part of the stem was used as an edging
to the first brash pile to be closed down.
Other logs were lifted on to the top of
the piles to help compress the holly.
Coffee time and lunch time were
taken in a rather nice woodland clearing...
...where wood owner Helen had
set up a refreshment area.
Thanks Helen!!
Work continued on both sides of the wood.
Here the NCVs cleared up some heaps
of branches and added them to an already
established dead hedge.
By close of play, as you can see,
the wood was much clearer
and far lighter.
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