Picture: A Budding Young Driver (Sam, I Believe!)
The volunteer event for May focused on mending the protective fencing along the banks above the pony paddock main access (where the water tank is located). The existing fence had become just a line of posts with odd bits of wire remaining to be removed!
The Ranger, Joanna Lawrence, had made available posts from the workshop storage yard which will be longer lasting than the logs that are usually used and this made an enormous difference.
Picture: Planning Putting Up Posts And Rails
There was a very good turnout on what was an absolutely glorious day and everyone enthusiastically got down to the tasks of digging, sawing and hammering! A variety of passers-by asked about what we were doing and some even wanted to get involved (see picture at top).
Picture: Really Getting Stuck In!
Picture: After the Digging, Inserting A Post
As an aside, just as the task was about to start we were informed by a member of the public that there was a fire burning nearby that needed to be extinguished. In fact the fire brigade had arrived by the time we got there (in other words, very quickly) and were already dousing the remaining embers. The fire engine was able to get right up to the fire due to it’s compact size.
Note: To avoid any possible misunderstandings, in the above photo (‘Really Getting Stuck In’), full H&S precautions were of course taken. Indeed appropriate information on the correct use of tools is given prior to each volunteer event.
I love that fire truck!
Looks like all had a great time, too.