Not strictly tree related but countryside related

[easy-lift guy]

Nice pic's Matt, it really is a jungle out there! David I like your suggestion with dealing with the problem. Keep up the good work Matt, All the best.

elg.

[Matthew Arnold]

Our jobs today

 

1) Install 3 new anti-vehicle stobs

2) Move finger post and attach to bridge

3) Site checks.

[David Riding]

We have an SLA (Service Level Agreement) with a few local parishes to maintain their RoW. We did our rounds of mowing in a village called Child Okeford. As our main mower was in for repair (diff lock failure and new drive belt) we had to do it all by strimming. Had some fun along the way and got a nice picture of the Friday team. In the last pic from left to right (Me, Liam [work exp] Sam [FJF], Luke [stepping Stones scheme and PTSD sufferer).

 

I really miss being a Countryside Ranger I worked as a Volunteer for 6 months and then full time between 2006-2008 at West Lancs District Council. They then paid for my CS31 and I moved to tree work etc.

Nothing more satisfying than building a wooden bridge over a stream in a nice woodland If they had paid more than the £11k I received I probably would have stayed!

[Matthew Arnold]

I really miss being a Countryside Ranger I worked as a Volunteer for 6 months and then full time between 2006-2008 at West Lancs District Council. They then paid for my CS31 and I moved to tree work etc.

Nothing more satisfying than building a wooden bridge over a stream in a nice woodland If they had paid more than the £11k I received I probably would have stayed!

 

I've been volunteering full time for 5 years. Alot of people think i'm mad.

[David Goss]

I've been volunteering full time for 5 years. Alot of people think i'm mad.

 

Your a volunteer?? geez matt you must love it to stick out the volunteering for so long. Hats off to you mate:thumbup1:

[Matthew Arnold]

Your a volunteer?? geez matt you must love it to stick out the volunteering for so long. Hats off to you mate:thumbup1:

 

Yup. I love the work i am in. The main reason i have been volunteering for 5 years is because there is nothing going anywhere job wise. Only volunteering posts and very short seasonal contract posts.

[Matthew Arnold]

We had a nice job to do on Friday which we decided to do as it was a nice easy relaxing job. We had a hand rail to put in on a set of steps and remove vegetation from the edges of the steps and remove the ivy from the top of the bridge.

[Matthew Arnold]

And todays job...... Had an answerphone message from the local police that they had shifted some druggie campers from one of our sites. Sadly they have only moved to another site o nthe other side of the river. I've been a volunteer with the ranger service for 5 years and i have never seen a drug problem this bad ever. In the last month we have filled 8 small sharps boxes:afraid:. The police are building a portfolio of drug related problems so they can get an exclusion order for the druggies. The next smiley is what i would like to do to them.

[David Goss]

wow thats a lot of needles:scared1:

Take care mate dont get stuck with one of those things or it could be goodnight in a slow horrible way

[Matthew Arnold]

wow thats a lot of needles:scared1:

Take care mate dont get stuck with one of those things or it could be goodnight in a slow horrible way

 

Whenever we have a report of needles we don our steel based boots, thick trousers and welding gloves. Its such a shame they use our sites for it too:thumbdown: