Logged Visits:

24th Jan 2024  16:42  by Robert Phillips

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

2nd Jul 2023  17:20  by Geoff Foordy

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Thanks to Vegibagger a month ago for swooping in and clearing the growth! FB clear and trig accessible by climbing the fence enclosure! Great views to the Campsies ! Surrounded by ‘fields of gold’ with cornflowers on a bright summer evening!

1st Jun 2023  18:00  by vegibagger

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Didn't read the logs in advance until I was right there and a seriously imprisoned trig pillar as others had said. Time for TPLM of the TPLF to swoop in.. so trig pillar liberator man donned his cloak and his t-shirt and swooped in... I was there with all the equipment so I spent 20 minutes attacking it with secateurs and my folding saw and had I needed it I even had a mini hacksaw so that little tiny bit of fencing that was a squashed into the Ground near the flush bracket could have been hacked a little bit but fortunately I didn't need to I could eventually once I had got rid of lots of bramble and more Hawthorn....the flush bracket was accessible enough for me to pull back the bit of wire fencing and getting there with my spray oil and my air dry clay.

Trig released ©vegibagger
Top 'face'. Released from prison ©vegibagger
Little minion tied on ©vegibagger
FB released ©vegibagger

21st May 2023  12:29  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Parked at the end of the track at the Luddon Training Center which was shut as its Sunday. The trig is buried in the hedge. Next visitor would be advised to take something with them to cut back the brambles and hedge, unless they just want to jump off the fence / gate into them and stomp them down which Mrs A1M thinks is 'dedication'.

6th Nov 2022  17:18  by amdouglas

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

24th Sep 2022  14:57  by WeirdWifie

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Walked up the A879 from Lambhill Stables on the canal. Followed the track to the gate. Trig almost impossible to see, hedge and brambles totally overgrown. A lot of debris on the top, so couldn't see spider, flush bracket completely hidden.

3rd Sep 2020  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NS 58774 71354   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Needs some serious sawing in hedge to access spider

15th Jun 2016  15:23  by asbown

Gridref: NS 58768 71355   FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

easy from the road, well hidden

31st Jan 2016  17:30  by Ham Mathieson

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

Local farmer drove us right to this trig. Unfortunately dark so viewed by torch light. Trig hiding in a hawthorn hedge. Will revisit to check out again and see views of neighbouring countryside.

8th Dec 2015  10:58  by Aqueously90

Gridref: NS 58783 71355   FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

Log #252. Managed to park just off the road to the west and walked up sodden track. Shrouded in a jaggy hedge and surrounded by fencing. Bit of a sad state, with cap missing and plugged. [ExP-189/MiP-9/Rev-2/BM-14/IS-30/Other-8]

FB
Pillar
Cap missing.
Location within hedge, next to gate.

20th Oct 2015  12:10  by plet56

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 3/10

29th Aug 2015  12:15  by Wubbleyew

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 3/10

Remains hidden in its captivity within the prickly hedge and 'mini-stockade'. Attempted an examination and minutes later with bloodied hands & arms discovered that it has a plugged cap & one sight hole open. No secateurs with me today; I could just imagine trying to get into Firhill armed with such a weapon!

20th Apr 2014  10:09  by clochandighter

Gridref: NS 58772 71352   FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 3/10

Third visit. For GPS reading and photographs. SITE VISIT: Approached from west. Parked in turning circle outside industrial premises at NS582711 on west side of A879. Direct route up track opposite leads to gate beside trig. Now a complete shambles. Works of some sorts going on up here, possibly to do with the pylons. A wooden fence has appeared in front of the pillar and a metal gate is fixed opened in front of that. The gate cannot be moved because the adjacent track has been surfaced higher with loose rubble. To add to that the pillar was completely lost in the hedge but that got a haircut so that I could get inside the wooden fence and salvage what photography I could. Pillar in fair condition with chip out of NE apex. Spider plugged with smooth resin. Flush bracket faces ENE, ~77°. Vented through westmost sight hole. Views limited to north and northeast with open outlook to south.

S3641 - Balmuildy the shambles
S3641 - Balmuildy & GRP
S3641 - Balmuildy pillar & FB

16th Feb 2014  15:45  by lonesome_cowboy_burt

Gridref: NS 58773 71354   FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Parked at Luddon's and then along the track. Pillar in hedge and fences but FB visible at present

Balmuildy ©lonesome_cowboy_burt

12th Mar 2013  20:26  by THE CYCLIST

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

19th Jul 2011  16:00  by Sandman

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Almost totally encased in hedge

31st Dec 2010  11:30  by Mickandkim

Gridref: NS 58770 71357   FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Parked at Luddon car park Easy access along field lane

4th Oct 2009  13:00  by descarte1

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Slightly damaged pillar at field edge completely overgrown by hedgerow. FB faces east, west hole only open. The rest are under the ground level that's built up around the pillar base. Hole plugged and spider intact. North east corner has been knocked off, otherwise, in good condition. Good views all around especially to the Campsies. I parked at the farm building on the left as you turn off the A829 and went up the field edge to the pillar. Very straightforward. Saw a few scampering deer on the way. Very nice!

22nd May 2009  17:40  by andyc

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

No bike anymore, pleasant views of Campsies.

2nd Apr 2009  13:40  by barnsley skip

Gridref: NS 58776 71355   FB Number: S3641  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked car on road side North of trig at North West corner of works grid ref NS 58634 71791. Walked along side fence line for 0.28 of a mile to trig in hedgerow as anyone forgot a bike? as mentioned by last trig log.

bike

31st Jan 2009  13:35  by coinea

Gridref: NS 58775 71353   FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Parked in Luddon*s visitors* car park, sole occupant. On return leg down path from trig could see security guard putting cones across entrance, however, easily removed to allow exit!Pillar now has a bike resting on top of it.

S3641 Balmuildy.m

28th Feb 2008  11:56  by SlainteJimmy

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Embraced by Hawthorns with skittish Deer running loose. The centre is cemented, west sight open and NorthEast corner 'munched' a little. Dumgoyne and Campsies looming once more.. the second of my accidentally sequential flushbrackets today !

Balmuildy ...wrapped in hawthorn and deer !

7th Mar 2007  16:10  by campagvelocet

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 6/10

In amongst a neatly cropped hedgerow. The gate seems to have disappeared. Startled a group of about half dozen deer in an adjacent field on my way in on the convenient track east from the A879. Decent view north from a not particularly prominent point.

19th Jan 2007  12:11  by agentmancuso

Gridref: NS 58774 71352   FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

BSM type. One corner chipped. Old gate has been moved along a bit. Hedge covering trig. Was probably painted white once upon a time. Easy access from west, parked at Luddon entrance without any trouble.

20th Feb 2006  13:30  by sky high boys

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 2/10

Yuch! Edit: revisited 5/5/12 during an unsuccessful hunt for the nearby auxiliary peg.

27th Dec 2003  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S/3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

top chipped, resin plug, E edge of hedge just inside v muddy gateway

12th Dec 2003  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 3/10

S3641
S3641

8th Oct 1986  12:13  by clochandighter

FB Number: S3641  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

First visit. To record FB number. Trig 2 of 12 for the day. Anti-clockwise walking route starting and finishing at Glasgow Queen Street station. The pillar was completed 28th February 1946 costing £4.9s.3d. This marker was originally computed for triangulation in 1947 as tertiary station NS77/T136 in the Glasgow secondary block,and recomputed as same in 1983. The flush bracket was levelled for height in 1956. This trig point was last maintained by the OS in June 1982. Old gate propped up against it.