Proactive defencing

While the rest of the world has been lazing around during the annual two week Christmas break, Jim and I have been busy removing the surplus fencing from around Nant plantation. Jim actually started this task back in November and has been tackling it in short bursts between other jobs, but, with the end in sight, we have been carrying out a major push to get it finished.

The old plantation has had, over the years, new fencing put around it outside the patched up original fence to keep out the stock. This left a hundred plus excess fence posts, over a kilometre of redundant and rotting wire and 200 metres of sheep netting . Each of these elements had to be detached and coiled for removal and then lugged to where Steve, from the farm, could get to it with the trailer to take it away. The wire will eventually be removed from the island and recycled, and the posts will be used in the withies to repair the board walks, one of our next projects, or burnt as winter fuel at Ty Pellaf.

So, an arduous and tedious task, especially in the wind, rain and snow, but now it’s complete the whole place looks much tidier and a lot easier on the eye.

Elaine