These “before”  and “after” photos are of a stile, obstructed by  overgrown vegetation that were
cleared on 19th July ’12. The stile is at the junction of footpath Dunham Massey 18 and Sinderland road,  near the crematorium and the footpath,  which is a public right of way and leads onto Carrington Moss and its network of informal paths. At the same time a nearby wooden sign post
which was becoming obscured by the hedgerow was also cleared .

As part of working with Trafford Council a Ground Force Officer gave a short demo on using a petrol engine strimmer demo today.
The photo shows a footpath team member in goggles and using the harness to support the weight of the machine.

This is part of footpath Urmston 17 in Flixton which is amongst woodland in the Meadows area near Uplands Rd.   Today's group tackled  what initially looked like the impossible.  However, the path
is walked in winter when vegetation dies back so once we started to uncover the track, clearing
became a bit easier.  Our morning was made all the more enjoyable by two local residents who came to find out what we were doing.  We had a very informative mini  “tutorial” from a man who is a local expert in moths and he let us see his previous night’s collection before releasing them into the woodland. Then a little later, we were treated to glasses of ice cold juice by another resident who realised what hot work it was as the temperature rose to 24 degrees C and we are wearing our personal protective long sleeves and trousers and hi-vis tabards.