The new tractor shed

Plans are now well under way for our new tractor shed. I’ve been out with Derek looking at suitable trees for planking, (we’ll be using the services of a local mobile saw mill to do this), which will be used to clad the sides. There’s plenty of big trees on The Hurtwood which are too [...]

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Tractors and fly tip

First time out with the new tractor last Friday. It took quite a while to get the new Bush Hog set up correctly, but it was worth the time as it’s cutting so much better than our old one ever did.
I was going to use the tractor to clear up this lot of mess but [...]

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A bump on the head!

One of the trails I blocked last week has been opened up again, so I decided to put some bigger trees across it. Everything was going swimmingly until the top snapped out of one of the Pines I was felling and landed square on my head breaking my safety hat! 24 hours later my head [...]

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It’s still raining

Yet another wet day! Most of the Mountain bikers I’ve spoken to this week seem to be supportive of the no tolerance for unsanctioned trails, hopefully they’ll spread the word. Monday evening saw the Hurtwood MTB trail builders out again on the new entrance avoiding the Hill fort. I helped with the brushcutter making sight [...]

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Bike trails

This week I’ve been blocking off new bike trails that have appeared. These trails have been built without our permission. We now have a policy of putting them beyond use as soon as they appear. There is more information about this in the news section of the main site HERE The bike trail that went [...]

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The first instalment

Welcome to the Hurtwood Ranger’s blog. The idea for this blog came about after being asked “what does the Ranger do” one too many times. For the sake of everyones sanity I’ll keep the blogs short and only post if something of vague interest has occurred, I’m sure you don’t all want to hear about [...]

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