On Thursday 13th our friends from Scottish Woodlands felled three trees that were causing concern to our neighbours at Boat of Garten.
Sleepers were used to protect the signal wires and signal ladders lying around. The whole felled trees were swiftly removed from the line by our Road Rail Vehicle (RRV) to level ground near the water tower and I suspect Georgie spent some time tidying the track shoulders to the North Signalbox by hand.
On Saturday Ian and Kevin using chainsaws reduced it all to brash, kindles
and usable firewood blocks.
Meanwhile Georgie showed some of the newer members of the Gang, the intricacies of using the rail jacks.
Thereafter the squad was large enough to split in two - Peter, above re-distributing "ballast", tidying and filling in the ten remaining sleepers
that the other squad changed swiftly by mid afternoon.
Andrew wasn't content with just the handle coming off his brush, in his efforts to fix it, he inadvertently split the head in two! Undeterred he continued removing dirt from the chairs for a short while, until his knees gave in.
Thanks to Georgie, Mike, Angus, Martin, Bob, Peter, Iain, David, Andrew, Ian, Kevin and Scottish Woodlands
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Andrew redeemed himself by attending again today - Tuesday 18th January, joined by myself, Roddy and Sam all the way from Inverurie.
We were grateful of not having to hand shovel the locomotive ash out of the two wagons that Georgie had tripped from the Aviemore Engine Shed, on account of the clamshell bucket on our RRV.
However the huge lumps of strong dense concrete mixed in amongst it were not at all welcome!
Slowing us considerably, we did manage to create a reasonable Down Cess by the time we were knackered and it was getting dark, maybe the Engine Shed staff should sieve their " locomotive ash" with a kitchen sieve next time!
As ever thanks to all that attended.
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