Monday, 14 January 2013

Site Visit

December 5th 2012

Wednesday afternoon, early December, yep you guessed it folks... It was cold, and today was surveying day of the site.

This hard, freezing cold task was handed out (they volunteered really) to team members Laurence White (chief surveyor), Phil Shilton, Ben Thomas and Callum Bott (camera man).

Despite it being quite cold, the four of us surprisingly had a good time surveyor up, in particular Ben with the dist-o-meter. After a couple hours of surveying everything we needed had been recorded, and Emma, our client invited us in for a cuppa tea to warm up, which was very welcomed indeed.

We also got chance to share some ideas that had come up on our side already but also that had been running around in her head.

Just before dark started to draw in we decided to call it a day and head back to Nottingham with the data recorded and some good ideas from Emma.

Here are a few photos from the visit:


Getting the equipment from the Surveying Store at university


Laurence and Phil when we arrived at site


YES! There are ducks!


Walking to the site location at East Bridgford Hill


Let the surveying begin...


I needed a photo of myself in here somewhere... (Callum - blue coat, aka the camera man for the day)





Laurence issuing his instructions to Ben and Phil


Phil reading off a measurement


Laurence still issuing his orders





Phil... In a bush...


Ben being blinded by the low winter Sun


Laurence recording data


Reading measurements





The tree closest to the road near the site








Looking out onto the field adjacent to the site


More measuring





The four Horse Chestnut trees on site





Ben using the dist-o-meter


Taking levels of the site


Levels of the earth mound wall on the site next to the road


Measuring the girth of the trees

Well I hope you enjoyed this post on our site visit, keep an eye out for more posts coming soon!!

Regards

Team WIN

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