This week its all action on CK Route 1! With B4RN engineers and contractors, Steve Foster and his team and Pete Simm and his dig and fit volunteer team all working hard to get Crook connected as fast as possible!
Work on installing the main cabinet at the Memorial Hall is underway.
Important progress as the chamber will connect Crook Route 1 to Crossthwaite head end chamber and be used to connect the other CK routes.
Steve Foster and his mole ploughs are making fast progress digging duct on Route 1. They are over halfway to Memorial Hall even after some very challenging sections of digging from Broom Farm to Low Fold (walls, streams, services, orchards, steep slopes and ROCKS!). Steve is now digging duct in the green fields from Low Fold to High Leys and Crook Hall.
Pete Smith and his dig and fit volunteers continue to work on getting the properties on Route 1 and close to the Memorial Hall ready for connection.
Last week
- the house fitting team fitted 6 properties at Red Scar and Broom Farm clusters with kits with 3 also connected to the service ducts/ chambers
- making them ready for fibre to be blown and routers fixed once we have a Head End Cabinet installed and powered up
- Elaine and B4RN contractors have a programme of 8 properties to fit - 6 were done last week. 1 at the Broom Farm cluster, 1 at the Red Scar cluster, 1 out of 3 of the 4 properties along Lord's Lot ridge and 3 in at Crook Hall cluster, leaving 2 more together done this week.
This week
- 9 more properties are to have ducts dug & connected by the diggers team following fitting of the House Kits.
- Pete has two teams of volunteer diggers with spades at the ready to get CKHE dig done. Starting on Thursday at Box Tree cluster and moving on to dig at Oakshead on Friday.
- The house fitting team of Eric and John are fitting kit at Oakshead and Yew Tree Farm.