Highlighting the Flora
Wombat Moor flora signs installed.
Sunday 30 April 2017
What a delightful day to be on Wombat Moor. The task was to install signs describing the
various plants growing there and we worked in two teams of two, one putting in
the poles and the other placing the sign on.
This worked a treat and we got reasonably quick at it after the first
few. The section of track involved is beside the boardwalk to the woodland
mosaic.
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| Greg, Trevor and Adrian at Wombat Moor |
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| Flora sign on the moor |
The initial work on arriving at Mount Field was to predrill both
the signs at the workshop and the supporting timber backing. Trevor from PWS and Greg B did determine that
the backing timber would not be sufficiently durable in this climate and it
would be best to substitute with marine ply. We will wait until after winter
before acting.
Each post rises above the ground about 400 mm and designed
with a 45⁰
slope at the top to make reading easy from Greg’s specially designed rammer for
installing angle top posts worked to perfection and enabled the posts to be
easily driven into the soil.
We all were delighted with how the signs looked noticed
people walking up were stopping to look and read the new signs. Funds
for the project were provided by Wildcare.
We managed to finish the job by lunch time before what proved
to be hardest job of the day of removing the old information sign posts. Each had a stabilising foot attached making
it very difficult to get them out of the ground.
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| Rammer made by Greg Bell |
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