In the past month or two we have been working on a path in longniddry.

This job took a lot of work as you can see from the picture, it isn't small.  

I enjoyed this job because there was plenty of wood work to do, sometimes digging and shifting dirt can get mind numbing.

 

When you drive past this, you wont miss it!

Path building at Longniddry bents by Gavin McManus

The Coastal Communities spent most of November and December building a path that had a anti flood mechanism under it.

We started by collecting a lot of timber including railway sleepers, fence posts etc. we started by digging out a lot of the path that was already there so the path would be level. We then got the sleepers and put them in a straight line to see the level of what the path would be. Once we had decided the line of the path we put fence posts into the ground and drilled sleepers into them.

              We had to put a gap under the path so that when there was a flood it would flow under the path. This was a challenge as we had to saw through a sleeper multiple times to make the gap.
 Once the gap was made we brought in hardcore and levelled the path off.

              At one end of the path we had to cut and angle into a railway sleeper. Me and Nick got to use a circular saw to do this. I have never used one before so this was quite a challenge . When we had done this we put it at the end of the path and drilled them into the fence posts.
At the end of the project we brushed off the path with a layer of windust.

Graeme Minski

On Tuesday the 10th December we all went a cycle from Haddington to Prestonpans, It took us at least an hour to cycle from Haddington, before we left to go for our cycle we had to make sure all the bikes were in tact so we checked the breaks, pumped up the tyres and pretty much making sure the bikes were safe to ride for our cycle. I really enjoyed going for the cycle even though we got back quiet quick. I wish that we could have went for a cycle much longer than we did.

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