Caring and Chairing

Last Thursday the team spent the day working behind Travis Perkins cleaning up the site,  One of the jobs was to collect up all of the scrap chairs and weigh them in for scrap.  These are life expired and/or damaged cast iron chairs.

With the processing of the sleepers the scrap ones that are no longer usable are broken up,  The wood going for firewood and the chairs for scrap.

The skip duly arrived and a start was made.  There were a few other metal odds and ends placed in the skip.  First the closely placed scrap was moved by hand and the pile started to grow, and grow, and grow.. Dave J was giving encouragement to the follow up visitors to the pile, Jim, Dave R and Matt,  for every one loaded the clang was equivalent to the cash register bringing in funds for the extension.

And they kept coming... John W bringing another.  To give you an idea of the weight take a carrier bag and fill it with tins of beans, that is about the weight of one chair,  although with the carrier bags you get today you will be lucky to fit more than four tins in the bag before it splits and drops everything on the floor.  After moving these around you need some refreshments,

 The pile to shift was gradually reducing, even Matt took a turn and did not use the 'It's my Birthday' excuse.  What a way to spend a birthday and work up an appetite for cake.

 More serious machinery was needed as the distance to the skip increased and Glynn was called on with the excavator to drop a few buckets full. The cash register ringing ever louder. Dave s J and R watch as Keith goes for yet more from the 'manual' pile.

Glynn continued with scoops full of chairs.

 

As the distance between the skip and the chair piles grew the need for help in transport was obvious.  Here Glynn moves another 25 chairs up to the skip

Here is a group picture as chair number 350 was passed, John W, Dave J, Keith, Matt, Alan, Tom and Colin amongst others taking a breather. 

With use of the excavator the pile grew, here another bucket full progresses to the pile,  Glynn creeping up from behind the skip ready to deposit another load.

By the end we were filling up the skip and getting ready for the weigh-in. 

Many thanks to all who joined in and to roving reporters Andy G and Colin who provided the pictures.  The result? 10.5 tonnes of metal scrap weighed in and funds on the way to help with the push to Weston.

As a follow up we have to clear the leftover sleepers and cleared scrub.  Garden quality sleepers are available to purchase and the firewood can be yours for a donation,  Get in contact with the team at Oswestry if interested.

Until next time.