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What Keeps Me Out of the Workshop
awemawson:
So today as Brian the Brickie hadn't turned up by 08:30 I decided he wasn't coming, and I'd get on with the surface / land drain run, and water supply, which entailed hand trenching up the side of the slab, and connecting to the 'Y' point I'd previously installed when I put the 'Aco' storm drain within the pig enclosure. Hand trenching as it's too tight to get the digger in.
I'd done the first couple of metres by 9:05 and of course Brian turned up - my trenching cutting him off from where he'd been working :bang: So we agreed that he'd continue on the rear gable while I got the drains in.
Solid pipe up to the corner of the sty, and perforated land drain in pea shingle across the end. As I wanted a rodding point at the corner I decided to incorporate a 'back entry gully' that I had left over from previous works, and place it under where the tap will be on the corner pillar. I just had to buy an 'extender' to bring it up to finished ground level (not yet in the pictures.) *** edit actually you can just see it sitting upside down on the pillar !!!!!!!
awemawson:
Brian got the rear gable up to the first layer of corbelling, and put the second corbel on the front gable.
awemawson:
Today I let Brian persuade me to sell him my Kubota K008 3/4 ton digger. He needs a small one to fit through a door for a job he has coming up, and I need a bigger one, but not as big as the JCB 3CX 14 tonner that I reluctantly parted with last year.
I've located a JCB 803 and committed to buying it - this is a 3 ton machine that should hopefully fit my needs and not be too much of a dog when I see it in the flesh - bought blind from a dealer 300 miles away :bugeye:
vtsteam:
Green stuff above the track looks like it might have been sitting for a long while -- unless that's fresh, hard to tell in a photo. I forsee some madmodder projectdom in the future! :thumbup: :beer:
awemawson:
It probably has sat for a while Steve. It's in transit as I type - chap left Manchester 14:30 so it will be quite late when he arrives - must be a 6 hour journey at least.
I decided having laid the land drain etc to start back filling up to the walls in road planings that I'd saved when I excavated for the slab. First I had to fit the 'drain riser', then the gate to see where things need to end up
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