Finishing off the ramps

 Wednesday 2nd February 2022

It didn't feel like a winters day in February, this Wednesday had a feel of spring in the air.

But first a bit of recovery for the Volunteers with wood burners.

Last weeks fence rebuild left a few piles of  trees up on the nearby cutting , they couldn't leave them there to rot, the smaller pieces were recovered and the larger pieces eventually found their way to the workbench to be dissected into a size that fitted into the boot of a car !

Ron was on the bench recovering none bent parts of the recovered fence , when a large log suddenly appeared for resizing.

After the mid morning break it was lifting time again , after last weeks sheet lifting session, it was this time the turn of the glass sheets for the canopy . Once we got organized they all had been put onto the scaffolding without any breakages !

Over on ramp 2 last weeks shuttering was removed from around the concrete and the last of the slabs were cut and laid .

Terry poised , waiting help to lift the next slab into position,

Afterwards the area was levelled out and finished off . All the slabs on 1 and 2 had the dry kiln sand treatment and then larger gabs filled with cement.

Those not involved with the ramps moved onto Gardening or helping out shifting various bits of wood to the canopy.

Peter Q did a bit of strimming on the embankment

Brian gave the driveway grass the first cut of the year . whilst elsewhere Pat was in a northerly direction attacking vegetation of a larger size.

With an excess of cement left Paul, Terry and Keith headed to the platform edge and began replacing and refilling the gaps between the slabs.

Not a job if you have bad knees and they managed to do both platforms before the end of the day !

Dave