Time for some painting?
After a week off work, due to the Easter holiday, the NCVs made their way up to West Lane, high above Pateley Bridge. Tubes were rumoured to be involved. However - just in case you expected to see the NCVs sitting with their art materials in front of them, painting the view 'en plein air', you are about to be disappointed. The tubes referred to were not oil paints. Here there were two neighbouring woodland areas in need of tree tube removal for the benefit of the trees. Once removed they would then be collected up and taken off for recycling. At least the gang would certainly create an improved view by the end of the day.
Let's take a look and see how things went....
The first plantation was reached by
walking a long distance downhill...
...then a good way uphill....
...by way of an awkward fence.
Once there tubes were split...
...and coaxed off their trees.
They were then transported uphill
to the awaiting trailer.
Hang on Osian -
Ros is coming to help.
And then she wished she hadn't!
As area one was done by coffeetime
the vols moved on to plantation no. 2.
It was split and collect; split
and collect until lunchtime.
Sometimes collection required team work.
Phew! That's better.
This is challenging terrain
to work on.
Even better were the tasty
biscuits provided by landowner
Chris. Thanks Chris.
Much appreciated.
Work continued after lunch
and, gradually, tubes went from up here...
...to down here.
Liz practised her dog walking skills.
And, whilst she wasn't looking,
Helena had a swinging time.
By home time no fewer than 5 dumpy bags had been filled with tubes - all to be turned into pelleted plastic to be reused to make new tubes.
The gang are planning to return next week to finish off the rest of the trees.
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