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 Hawthorn root pulling.
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 Small sapling removal.
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 Sam removing bramble.
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 Start of the day. Plenty of hawthorn and bramble!
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 Hawthorn stump removal.
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 Root of the day by Stephen.
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 An important part of today's task involved removing well-set hawthorns from the immediate vicinity of the path
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 First task of 2023 is scrub bashing.
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 Crecy Hill is just across from the train tracks.
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 Burning scrub cut from the far side of the site.
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 Crecy Hill in bloom
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 Pulling hawtorn
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 Socially distanced break time.
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 Cutting scallops into the wall of dense undergrowth.
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 Our new tree-poppers in action.
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 Breaking into bramble scrub.
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 Widening the end of the footpath.
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 Given the right conditions you can lever out complete root systems with a treepopper, in this case hawthorn
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 The first straining-post complete with strut and stob, work on the gate-post holes and the second staining-post beyond.
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 Installing the short stretch of wooden rail fencing between the gate's clapper-post and the second straining post
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 The recycled staple fixed into the clapper post as the latch for the gate lever.
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 5/8ths of the OCV team
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 The finished article
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 Lunch time
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 Lunch time
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 Scrub clearance
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 How many OCVers does it take to build a stile?
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 Completed stile
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 Starting a post hole
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 Post-bashing
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 Finishing off
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 Devil's-bit Scabious
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 Pyramidal Orchid
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 Line-wire straining the posts; stock netting laid out and ready to staple up and complete the barrier
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 Trainer Brian tying off the wire at straining post
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 Finished, stock-proof, post & wire fence section!
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 View east from Crecy NR
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 Preparing a bolster for a crucial straining post
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 New straining-post hole is completed, with the removal of a stubborn rock!
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 Delapidated fence? Who you gonna call...?
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 Dismantling the old fence
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 Birds-Foot Trefoil - an 'indicator' species of unimproved chalk grassland
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 Salad Burnet - actual size about 6mm!
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 Hedgerow Cranesbill
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 Chris 'The Verifier' Skepper - keepin' it right 'n' exact..
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 Strut jointed into straining post
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 Straining post now ready to take the strain...
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 Perfect line of new posts ready to take the line-wire
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 Swarm of homeless honey bees, hangin' in a hawthorn hedge ;)
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 Trainer Brian instructs on the science of the 'monkey strainer'
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 Yellow Rattle
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 Crecy Nature Reserve path
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 Crecy footpath at the point of completion
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 Crecy reserve from the top
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 Sheep graze the coarse grass, leaving the dreaded blackthorn for OCV!
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