Man on a mission!

This is a man on a mission! 

In the continued quest to complete the plant shed roof the last remaining major part is to fit the ridges to seal the centre of the roof. As I wrote last week the preformed ridges are angled too sharply so they need to be made shallower. The man on a mission is Andy who innovatively uses a large metal gas bottle to roll down the pre-formed ridge to flatten it!

This level of innovativeness is viewed with some amazement by some including Richard and Riley!

However it works and two thirds of the roof is now complete. Harriot the JCB will be pleased especially as she is also due to get a new alternator to cure her ever flat battery problem!

Meanwhile I continue my quarrying quest for more rock to fill the gabion baskets/cages that are part of a new viewing platform that is being built. The easy stuff has gone so I am having to dig down and under things to find more of the hardened cement bags to break up.

This is about a ton of material on the platelayers trolley.

I was joined by Alex and we pushed the loaded trolley up the line to the site where the third and last of the first level baskets/cages needed filling.

That ton or so of rocks took the level up to about two thirds so another load was needed.

After lunch and a rest another trolley load of material was quarried, loaded, pushed up the line and then deposited into the awaiting basket/cage bringing it to just about full! Alex poses inn celebration of the fact!

So there it is. The first layer is done - just about. A little bit of fine material is needed to top off all three baskets/cages and then the area behind them needs backfilling and then we can move onto level two with more gabion baskets/cages to fill! Given that they will be three feet higher it will be more difficult to fill them. That will see yet another man on a mission! A mission to try to make it easier to fill them!