Ham Mill June 24 to
26th
by: Andy P.
A joint crew operation with the landing stage team of Alan,
Dave, Mike, Jason and Kay joining Bob, Duncan and Andy P.
BD moved a stack of shiny sheet piles over to the barge
which was spilt up, to transfer into the barge.
Some pulling and pushing of the barge and plastic pig before
everything was in place. Following a briefing session we were off with the
first pile. Careful positioning and delicate boot manoeuvring and lots of
shouting then the hammer started. If you don’t know it is very, very noisy. The
neighbours all come out to view.
The first pile went in fairly easily but stopped at a metre plus depth into the canal bed. Then it
was a case of repeating until, by the end of the day, 5 piles had been
inserted. We also took the opportunity to remove stakes and material where the
remaining piles were going to be inserted on Thursday.
