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Harlaw wall repairs

23/4/2017

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Today we returned to Harlaw, this time to do some much-needed repairs to the wall running along the side of the reservoir beyond the visitor centre. There are several places where the wall has come down - this one was less than 100 yards from the centre, so we started with it.
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Tommy, one of the rangers, showed up with a Land Rover and trailer just after we'd started, and used this to bring along some of the left over stone from a fortnight ago's build (see previous post). On the path/reservoir side, most of the remaining wall was OK, but on the field side there was a badly bulging section, where the foundation stones had been laid sloping outwards, so we had to strip this right down to ground level.
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The stone was mostly red sandstone, and a lot of it was quite soft and easy to shape (especially the leftover stuff from the raised bed), so we made good progress - by lunchtime we'd got it all back up again, and were pleased to find that we had enough cope stones to do the whole gap.
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After lunch we tackled a bigger gap about a quarter of a mile further along the wall - Tommy had driven round through the field and left us a load of stone there, too.
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Someone had had a go at putting some of the wall back up, but we had to strip this back to get to the problem below - once again sloping stones had been put into the foundation, but this time sloping in the way, and they'd been forced out by the weight of the wall above.
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Once again we made good progress, and by close of play we'd got the wall back up - this time we were short one small cope, but with a bit of hammering we were able to make a replacement from one of the larger unused stones.
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