New job, new problems... I always expect this to be the case and the Crow Wood contract is proving to be similar, but different. Problems with setting up the contract, that had been caused mainly by the estate's game department, had pushed the start date back until we were finally starting work in the second week in September. This was not ideal on a job where we would have to extract timber from a hillside that had last been felled during the 1940s. There were no apparent extraction routes from theprevious felling but there were a few landslips, a large pheasant pen and a drainage system that had been left unmaintained for decades. This meant there were areas of bog on the large flat areas that separated the three clearly defined slopes. On top of these problems was a two-mile extraction by forwarder to the sawmill yard where the lorries would finally have access to the timber we were producing.
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