Ham Mill Monday 18th March
by: Andy P.
An interesting start at 8am as the truck arrived to collect
the 1 tonne trench box. A tipper truck and no lifting equipment. What are we
supposed to do? Bob came up with a cunning plan. Dismantle it. The mini digger
took the strain as the leg pins were eased out with a lump hammer. More digger
manoeuvres as the sides were grabbed and lifted on the truck, twice. Excellent
improvisation.
Richard and Andy on neighbourly gardening duties to add a
few more finishing touches. We do get biscuits in return. Dino the big fearsome
dog, not even moving and there was a small hint of a tail wag. Cracked it.
Numerous visitors today but not much time for catching up
but John F and Ian M came to start the big mixer in readiness for the monster
mixes we will need. We had tried the opposite of the utube video and Mathew got
in spluttering into life only for it to splutter to death and stop. John failed
and the mixer is still dead. We did pick the brains of the engineer who had
just fixed BD so we have some options-ready mix might be one of them. Hoorah.
BD now back up and running but still needs some more TLC.
Let’s make some concrete was heard, so 3 mixers were wheeled
down the slope and bucketed into the wall space behind the pipe. It seems like
years ago we started on this pipe, it was in fact Feb 26th 2018 but
at long last after a very long delay and then so much work and effort, it is safe
to say the pipe in now finished. That is apart from all the concrete to go on top
of it, but that’s another story.
