The Manchester Tour Revealed!

[18 stoner]

There have been a few members who have been visiting the forum just to find out what the Manchester job was all about, so here are a few pics from the job.

 

The works were carried out on the bank of the river Mersey for National Grid after the bank had eroded dangerously close to a main Gas pipeline.

 

As you can see from the pics there were plenty of other hazards to contend with such as the overhead power lines, busy main road and railway line.

 

The origional works were carried out in September to fence off the farmers field for his tock, and enable an access road to be laid along the river bank to the work area.

 

The first few pics are of the work area where we did an amount of tree clearance and pruning of the boundary for excavator access.

 

 

 

 

[18 stoner]

 

 

[18 stoner]

Following the reinstatement of the river bank, the temporary roadway was removed and we returned last week to reinstate the main gateways to the field.

 

The farmer will now re seed the old access road and then remove the fence in the middle of the field at a later date.

 

 

Before anyone says the gatepost isnt straight, a lorry hit it:sneaky2:

 

 

[18 stoner]

Last few before we left site!

 

 

 

[Robert_S]

Nice bit of fencing there mate:thumbup:

 

Hows the gate post/strainers in? do you have the posts concreted and the turners/strainers driven, it great to look back on finished section of stock fence.

[18 stoner]

Yeh, forgot to add, the fence we set first across the field was classed as "temporary" by N.G. and straining stays were not on the spec, but i did put some in in the really essential places, and also we were not allowed to concrete the gateposts in so they were set by hand 4 feet deep!

 

Near all the posts were put in by hand, but we did have a little "assistance" from a large excavator:blushing:

 

The main gate we did last week was concreted at 4 feet deep.

 

My straining stays are butted upto a post thats cut down close to ground level.

[Big 'Ammer]

Mad for it! Mad for it!

 

Nice tidy bit of work there Pete.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Nice pete

 

Looks like some Jap knot weed on the river bank

[Frank]

Did you mill the gate posts yourself??? haha