Planking February 2018
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| Planking on Windy Moor |
26 February 2018
Installing the
planking began on the day the timber was flown to Windy Moor, but was interrupted
when rain arrived midway through the
next day and rained on the Saturday. John and Mark, the contact team, resumed
on Sunday
Greg K re-joined them
on the Monday 26th and Greg B, Sue & Peter helped lay wire and
unpack a timber bundle. The stapling machine was not working properly and that
made the wire work very slow and tedious. The track layers had got the planking
about 120 metres over the moor by the end of the day. Rock under the surface was
causing considerable problems.
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| Mark drilling the hole for Greg to add the bugle screw |
27 February 2018
It was pleasing to see
good progress had been made by the time Dave, Rhonda and Peter arrived the next day. We unpacked three loads of timber, with Dave &
Peter putting the planks beside the track and Rhonda varying the associated timber. The track layers, John, Mark and Greg, were
joined by Andy from PWS and made very good progress over some of the muddiest
and heavily braided sections.
By the time we left
the distance planked was a ground distance of 254 metres and that covered a straight line
distance over the moor of 245m. That is 27% of the total distance of 910 metres.
The track work was planned to go until midday
Thursday, in which case a bit over 5 days of would have been worked. But I suspect the weather intervened on
Wednesday |
| Planking process, Andy, Greg, John and Mark |
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| Getting levels Andy & John |
Greg provided an update and the weather did cause work to halt while a rain band went through midway on Wednesday. After it passed there was a window allowing more planking to be done, before thunder, lightning and heavy rain forced them to scramble for the tents. There was further work for half a day on Thursday, bringing the planking to the halfway point on the moorland.
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