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Bridget Clark

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44 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

So the one wheel can let you down sometimes if it wobbles or you hit, you know, a patch of wet ground or a small kink in the ground even.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

So the wheelbarrow design itself needs to be looked at.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

There is a two-wheeled one, yes.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

And that's something I'd like to investigate.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

Would it work for me here or would I need one with two wheels and a stabiliser on it too?

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

Because sometimes it can roll off down the hill.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

I'm in a very hilly spot.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

That's the beauty of this scheme, isn't it?

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

Some of these walls are here since the time of the English, and we're talking going back 800 years, if not a bit longer.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

And as a result, over time and erosion, and of course animals jumping on them, the walls have taken a real hit.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

And some of those were 14 foot high, and now what you're looking at is approximately...

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

Seven foot high to ten foot high.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

Some are still standing now where there have been trees and bushes blocking any animals.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

And of course wind too has played a huge role in this.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

Future proofing the farm means putting things in place now to make life easier as you get older.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

So in this case, if you want to maintain a stone wall or indeed fix a gap in it like in this situation, weight-wise, I cannot compete with this rock.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

No.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

I don't know anybody who could actually compete with that.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

No.

CountryWide
Making Farms Work for Women

No, that's huge.