27/2 Simon and Ben work on repairing the fence along the entry road to prevent cattle coming on our new runways
27/2 Ben at work repairing the north fence
27/2 Simon, Geoff, Ben and Brendon repaied the fence in a rapidly convened working bee
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27/2 New topsoil laid over the runways
27/2 More topsoil to be spread over the EW runway at the west end
27/2 EW Runway east end
27/2 NS runway southern end
27/2 Looking south east across the EW runway
27/2 Looking SW across the NS runway
27/2 EW Runway eastern end
27/1 Taking the new track for a test drive
27/2 Road profile - crushed brick and concrete
27/2 Heading west towards Gate 2
27/2 Track along the north side of the MX Shed
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22/2 Ben and Vince cement in the gate posts with help from David W
Pics DW
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22/2 Civilmech bring in soil and grade it to level our new runways
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22/2 Lots happening
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22/2 The NS runway takes shape
22/2 Newly graded track looking west from the SEMAC area Soon to be covered in crushed contrete watered and rolled
22/2 Looking east from Gate 2
20/2 Ready, set spray
Brendon attacks the blackberries
20/2 Pics of the runway grading work from Brendon
20/2 Looking west down the EW runway to the cross and the NS runway
20/2 Pic of the NS runway looking south from Brendon
20/2 Again looking west down the EW runway to the cross and NS runway Pic from from Brendon
18/2 Civilmech equipment onsite at MX ready to begin the earthworks
18/2 Dino shuts the gate
18/2 David W checks out Civilmech’s string line marking the north side of the new road
18/2 Pink stake marking the 2nd wet areas requiring geofabric over poly pipe
18/2 David talks to Dirk of Civilmech near Gate 2
18/2 David Wheeler shows Ryan and Dirk of Civil mech SEMAC’s layout
18/2 View from the dam to the south east
All gorse has now been slashed by Glen of MX
18/2 View from the dam looking south west again showning the gorse has been cleared
18/2 View from the dam looking north west
18/2 View from the dam looking north
18/2 View from the dam looking east
18/2 Leaving the experts to it
10/2 Rob and David get busy driving in markers in preparation for the earthworks commencing 15/2
10/2 Dino checks the stake at the east end of the EW runway
10/2 David and Rob at the flight line marker
10/2 Mr Wheeler’s schematic for Civilmech’s engineers
Based on JJ’s master plans previously approved by council
3/2 David W learns to drive the gorse slasher under instruction from Glen of MX
2/2 AGM Attendees
2/2 Rod, Simon and Geoff present to the AGM
2/2 Col Vandersluys’ ‘BITS’ is admired by Rob, Bill and Mario
2/2 Mario admires Dinos ‘Miss Vintage’ scratch build
2/2 Col and Simon chat at the AGM
2/2 Bill and Rob also admire Dino’s craftsmanship
Hi All,
I will provide my sermon shortly. In the meantime here is a link to a video of our field taken on Sunday 21st February.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rsNJ5KThDFromhsax7WOsk_kyXCazywx/view?usp=sharing
Regards,
Simon
