There was no way for Ed to know if things would be ok as they were. Nevertheless, after lots of pointless back and forth the three of them still left the matter for the next day.
'Unfortunately building a secure wall without Bulwud is a challenge' There were many other orcs capable of building a wall and that was to be expected as many had to have worked as laymen before. Nevertheless, the skills of a good supervisor could not be underestimated.
Bulwud was by no accounts a master but experience made even a noob formidable when amongst other noobs.
'We could have just gone to him but…' The main issue with that was that Bulwud was inside of the orc iron mine. They would have to expend some effort looking around for him.
That didn't mean they couldn't inform anyone. They did send an orc with this mission but they couldn't just loiter around until Bulwud got the message.