http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Red bridge to Granton path maintenance en Thu, 21 May 2026 08:29:54 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20657#post-353061 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:22:23 +0000 gembo 353061@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great work </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20657#post-353053 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:33:38 +0000 Dave 353053@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://twitter.com/david_mccraw/status/1418473919204503554?s=19" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/david_mccraw/status/1418473919204503554?s=19</a></p> <p>Bit of a hack job, but a little better above waist height. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20657#post-353037 Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:41:50 +0000 Dave 353037@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's a mix, a lot of light hedge with some thicker bits from the trees. Not many big enough to really need a saw though. I didn't take a good look at ground level. </p> <p>Not recent but see <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9744942,-3.2410087,3a,75y,123.44h,79.39t/data=" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9744942,-3.2410087,3a,75y,123.44h,79.39t/data=</a>!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suw9BCG55YChaYPZSVQ4imA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192</p> <p>And the hedge at the bottom is massively overreaching now too: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9807534,-3.236846,3a,15y,211.24h,88.45t/data=" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9807534,-3.236846,3a,15y,211.24h,88.45t/data=</a>!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNqWNr5cuOj1u1zrjR25WqQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192</p> <p>I've got a split shaft strimmer / hedge trimmer / polesaw type thing (electric, not petrol). Will bring a rake and spare gloves / glasses in case anyone else can rock up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20657#post-353036 Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:20:09 +0000 MediumDave 353036@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Alas I have swimming tomorrow morning and can't make Sunday either (doing pathwork elsewhere, ironically).</p> <p>Is it mainly soft vegetation? If so I might swing by with a grasshook one evening to see if anything needs doing. I occasionally take loppers out to deal with a pesky branch or two but haven't been that way for a while. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20657#post-353035 Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:32:32 +0000 Dave 353035@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK, looks like I'm free tomorrow before the coffee on the canal. I'll try and do an hour before heading up to the canal sometime around 8am </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20657#post-353033 Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:50:52 +0000 Dave 353033@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm away this weekend unfortunately. I was thinking about an early morning attack run (back home for work starting) but it's hard to schedule around childcare. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20657#post-353031 Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:36:54 +0000 le_soigneur 353031@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I did this 2 or 3 years ago with a slash hook as I was fed up of being clothes-lined when it was damp and the wet branches drooped down onto the path.<br /> The sight lines at Craigleith 5-ways was another one I used to do when I commuted that way.<br /> We are supposed to still be distancing so you'd think the council would abandon their "only trim the verges in August" cost-saving policy. At least for the duration of the pandemic</p> <p> Can give it a go again on Sunday 10am? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20657#post-353028 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:24:28 +0000 neddie 353028@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don’t mind helping too </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20657#post-353027 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 19:51:42 +0000 MediumDave 353027@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Up for that, depending on time/date. I can also lay my hands on some tools if required (loppers, bowsaws, pole pruner, maybe other things). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20657#post-353022 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:52:31 +0000 Dave 353022@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Out on my skates the other night, and the overgrowth from the red bridge down towards Granton is really unbearable.</p> <p>Would anyone be up for helping with a trim back? I could zip down and cut it easily enough, but gathering the offcuts to one side takes forever. It would go a lot faster with one or two more pairs of hands. </p>