It’s A Drag…

...up the bank!

It's been a day in the conifer woodland once again, this time winching several large piles of wood up the bank. Most of it will be used to rebuild the footpath edges, the rotten sections were left to provide a habitat for many small invertebrates, and the rest was taken away for firewood.

The winch made short work of dragging the wood up, which would have taken us days if it were to have been done by hand.

It was then time to winch the large Larch tree trunk which came down in the wind last week, navigating it round the trees turned out to be quite a challenge.

Meanwhile, discussions about rebuilding the bench along the path led to Sophie and Peter demonstrating the perfect height for a bench! 

Quite an impressive trailer load of wood was eventually weaved out of the woodland.

Huge thanks to Ian for bringing his tractor and winch in, and to Peter for helping out with stacking and hauling wood around, and building habitat piles.

Meanwhile it was drama on Spigot Mere once again, as another WW2 mortar was found while digging up the new Scrapes. It was thankfully quickly dealt with by the bomb squad!

Staying well out of the way of the bomb squad, the ponies were enjoying some Gorse in the sunshine.