Talla
Fruid Fence Working Party, Wednesday April 1st 2015
To
go or not to go, that was the question we debated on a very stormy Tuesday
afternoon waiting for the latest weather forecast for the Wednesday morning. At last the forecast arrived a 4.30, rough to
begin with but a steady improvement during the day. So it was all go.
Thanks
to Rob Graham at Fruid we were able to get much more shorter access to the
fence from the Fruid side. The sun came
out as we started up the hill from the farm at the head of the Fruid reservoir
but no sooner had we started work after the tools arrived than the sun
disappeared and the first storm swept through complete with horizontal snow, hail
and 40+mph winds. Had this been an April
fool of a forecast ?
Yet
no one was for giving up. All worked on
their different sections regardless of the awful
weather putting wire in here, pulling up wire there flattened by snow and
tapping in staples and posts all along about 4km of fence.
Les
and David working near to top of Din Law in the second blast
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Three
hours and three freezing storms later we rendezvoused back at the farm. And of course, as we came down off the hill
out came the sun leaving us wondering why we were all so wet and cold.
Behind
us we left the fence in a much better state. Sheep proof? There are still
some snags to sort out but nothing a few short visits cannot deal with, in warm
sunny weather of course.
The
full team: Robin, John S. Wendy, John W. Mike, Richard, David, Keith with the
helmet, Hugh and Les, thawing out back at base
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Thanks
to all the volunteers, a demonstration of competence in awful conditions, and thanks
to Lynn and Keith for setting everything up and for the support on the day. A great team effort.
John Thomas
Will anyone be blogging about future plans for Talla? There is no information online about this project. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi Duncan. Thanks for your comment and interest in the project. We have just completed a full vegetation survey of the site and have a working ecology group who are discussing the future of Talla and Gameshope. As yet we have not published anything as things are very much in their infancy. However we are aware that there is much interest in what will happen across T&G and once we have more firm plans in place we do hope to share these
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