After the weekend wipeout with Storm Darragh, the windy cold weather continues and the hardy early crew assembled in the clubhouse, gathered around the new log burner, just a pity it wasn’t burning !
Flying discussed, but the trees on Wheelbarrow Lane were given due consideration and it was decided that becoming a lumberjack was best for the time and number of people present.
Great teamwork led by Peter and Trevor (Ashley Thomas)
So the intrepid crew of Pete Smith and Trevor Russell armed with chainsaws, strops, ropes and tractor ably supported by Dave Perriam, Jonathan Erskine, Ashley Thomas, Graham Starkey and Brian Knight went to tackle the somewhat displaced, leaning tree hanging over the entrance road.
I must say the tree put up a bit of a fight but gave up eventually and is now stacked behind the hangar and will provide a good supply of logs for the new wood burner!!!
We then decided to turn our attention to trying to complete some flying, rigged the field flying from a very chilly and drafty west end, but, everyone flew that wanted to, getting the grand old height of about 1000 ft (cloud base) a swift circuit around and back on the ground through some interesting conditions.
Then an early pack up, and warm up in the clubhouse (log burner) now alight and producing some warmth !!! That coupled with an excellent lamb roast provided by Vicky rounded the activities off to a very satisfactory day. - Dave Perriam
