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awemawson:
I decided that this spring I wanted to build a second Pig Sty - or rather Pig Palace as it's construction is rather OTT.

Decided where to put it, got builders in to quote, then wasted weeks waiting for a date that they could start. Then eventually decided I may as well get on with it myself - if I could find a half decent brickie it should fly up once I'd done the ground works.

So this is what I'm replicating - originally built using materials left over from another project, it's a pig yard 6 metres square with a sty in one corner and brick pillar and scaffold pole containment.

Should be able to get it done before the complications of lambing start  :scratch:

awemawson:
So first of all I needed to intercept the existing surface water drain that runs to the stream from the current pig sty, and trench up to the new location, lay the drain and back fill so the roadway is passable where it runs

awemawson:
Then having backfilled the trench I could start excavating 14 cubic Metres of farm yard to place the slab. The ground rises so I had to remove a wedge of yard and the upper sty wall will act as a retainer when the yard is reinstated. There will be a perforated land drain at it's base leading to a branch of the drain in the pictures above.

The new sty will be 6 metre by 4 metre yard, so slightly smaller than the original

awemawson:
Then I set the form work up (new scaffold boards sprayed with diesel to stop the concrete sticking) and could set the 'Aco' storm drain channel in place on concrete haunching prior to laying the main slab.

There are reinforcing bars pushed under the Aco to join the two parts of the slab

awemawson:
Then I needed to set the reinforcing mesh in place to get ready for the big concrete pouring day

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