High on a hill worked a group of vollies,
Lay - Eee - Odle - Lay - Eee - Odle - Lay - Eee - Ooo
Lay - Eee - Odle - Lay - Eee - Odle - Lay - Eee - Ooo
This week it was back to the hillside, high above Pateley Bridge, to continue with the job of removing the encroaching birch from Nought Moor, the SSSI moorland near Two Stoops.
Regular readers will recall previous visits. Lots of lopping, sawing, dragging and dead hedging was involved - and so it was again - as you can see below:
This time the focus was half way up the hill
and over towards the road.
Here the birch was very thick.
However - Ken soon made inroads
on the job and worked his way back across
to the footpath.
Amy started dragging (not an
easy job in thigh high heather).
Liz and Tim were cutting and dragging.
Once the brash started to accumulate,
Andy got busy dead hedging...
...as did Ros....
...and Brenda and Friedy.
It was full sunshine all day, which
was pleasant for breaks, but very cold
to sit for too long!
Adrian, Ken, and Amy got so far away
towards the footpath....
...that they ended up having to create
a second dead hedge over there.
By 2pm a stop was called as all the cut
birch had been processed.
Of course there is still more to remove
but an impressive view was opened up.
Latest News from the Wallers : 26-11-2025
Are we lucky with the weather or what? After last week's wimp out due to snow, all seven of us were back at Timble Grange to finish off for this year. We arrived to find stones frozen to the ground but still added two or three courses and toppers to complete a 40 yard stretch of wall, 30 yards of which was a dismantle and rebuild; all in six weeks.
The final cheek end section will have to wait until late spring next year when the ground has dried out. There were lovely winter views across to Menwith Hill and the new Blubberhouses bypass construction and beyond.
Frosty morning (about 1 degree), view towards Menwith Hill.
Chilly work begins - stones frozen to the ground
Barry and Rod had installed
the final topper by lunchtime.
They congratulated themselves
on a job well done while
Dave tidied up the site
Just after lunch and nearly time to go
piles of very muddy stones
were all that was left behind.
Six weeks work
Back to Markenfield next week to complete the project that we started on 19 October 2011, fourteen years ago!
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