jfoley
February 28th, 2005, 10:32 PM
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Due to weather, machine work on the trail redesign at wakefield has been popstponed for a couple of days. Volunteers will be needed to help on Thursday and Friday, and we'll have two full-scale workdays on Saturday and Sunday. There will be no work at the park on tuesday or wednesday of this week.
Here's Rich Edwards' assesment of the work done so far and the revised schedule:
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Hello everybody,
First I want to thank everyone who has helped out on the project so far. The support from Fairfax County, MORE, and the individual volunteers has been great. I understand how hard Saturday was and am very impressed with what was accomplished given the conditions. Over 1000’ of trail was benched into the side of the hill, several 1000 square feet of eroded trail were reclaimed, 3 pallets of lumber were cut and moved onto site, and 60’ of welsh style rock armoured trail was built. Saturday’s efforts will make accomplishing phase 1 during March an achievable goal.
However, This goal may take slightly longer than we planned. The new layer of snow will making working the next two days very slow and inefficient. I plan to postpone work until Thursday morning to allow the snow some time to melt. This should allow more efficient use of the DitchWitch Thursday through Sunday.
Revised Schedule:
Thursday
9am Ditchwitch delivered
Auger footers for boardwalk, pour cement (rich and vol)
Brush powerline section with weedeater (vol)
Start mechanized trail construction (rich)
Friday
Continue mechanized construction and reclamation (rich)
Hand finish new trail behind machine (vol)
pull up carsonite signs on trails to be closed (vol)
Saturday
Continue mechanized construction (rich)
Hand finish new trail behind machine (vol)
Reclamation (vol)
Boardwalk construction (vol)
stone work (vol)
Sunday
Continue mechanized construction (rich)
Hand finish new trail behind machine (vol)
Reclamation (vol)
Boardwalk construction (vol)
Stone work (vol)
Thanks,
Rich
Due to weather, machine work on the trail redesign at wakefield has been popstponed for a couple of days. Volunteers will be needed to help on Thursday and Friday, and we'll have two full-scale workdays on Saturday and Sunday. There will be no work at the park on tuesday or wednesday of this week.
Here's Rich Edwards' assesment of the work done so far and the revised schedule:
<hr size=1>
Hello everybody,
First I want to thank everyone who has helped out on the project so far. The support from Fairfax County, MORE, and the individual volunteers has been great. I understand how hard Saturday was and am very impressed with what was accomplished given the conditions. Over 1000’ of trail was benched into the side of the hill, several 1000 square feet of eroded trail were reclaimed, 3 pallets of lumber were cut and moved onto site, and 60’ of welsh style rock armoured trail was built. Saturday’s efforts will make accomplishing phase 1 during March an achievable goal.
However, This goal may take slightly longer than we planned. The new layer of snow will making working the next two days very slow and inefficient. I plan to postpone work until Thursday morning to allow the snow some time to melt. This should allow more efficient use of the DitchWitch Thursday through Sunday.
Revised Schedule:
Thursday
9am Ditchwitch delivered
Auger footers for boardwalk, pour cement (rich and vol)
Brush powerline section with weedeater (vol)
Start mechanized trail construction (rich)
Friday
Continue mechanized construction and reclamation (rich)
Hand finish new trail behind machine (vol)
pull up carsonite signs on trails to be closed (vol)
Saturday
Continue mechanized construction (rich)
Hand finish new trail behind machine (vol)
Reclamation (vol)
Boardwalk construction (vol)
stone work (vol)
Sunday
Continue mechanized construction (rich)
Hand finish new trail behind machine (vol)
Reclamation (vol)
Boardwalk construction (vol)
Stone work (vol)
Thanks,
Rich