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New Tractor Shed
awemawson:
At last things dried up enough to resume earth shifting. First problem, move the cattle off the heap before they leap over the fence :bugeye:
Fairly monotonous back and forth with the Telehandler until eventually the entire pile was re-located round the back of the shed and levelled off. Then we trenched and put in the drains for the roof run off.
Loads of not hugely interesting pictures of piles of earth, bull calves and drains follow : :clap:
Been told that the roller shutter and Pedestrian Door will be fitted Tuesday or Wednesday next week :thumbup:
awemawson:
Hopefully that's it for importing earth 'fill' - a total of 38 eight wheeler lorry loads :bugeye:
awemawson:
Got a surprise this morning - Darren in early and doing things with his scissor lift. Turns out that the Roller Shutter was due to come in early (noon today) and he had a hydraulic hose to fix first.
I was due to go over to my commercial butcher in Horam to collect some pigs that he'd been dismantling for me, and by the time I'd returned, unpacked, and set curing six sides of bacon and six legs and packed away the rest of the meat in various freezers the door was up and working, albeit on their temporary 3 phase genny.
So few actual pictures and I set to this afternoon living up the 3 phase distribution board and wiring a single 13 amp double socket as a temporary source of single phase power.
The pedestrian door is here and Darren intends to fit it tomorrow weather permitting
russ57:
I hope you are planning substantial internal fitout, as I can feel awemawson project withdrawal approaching...
Great project, well described!
-russ
awemawson:
Thanks Russ :thumbup:
It ain't finished yet ........ :lol:
Nice bright dry day but no Darren so far (15:15) :bang: So I've gone ahead and started pulling pipes and cables through from the Woodwork Shop where I'm sourcing electrical power, compressed air, telephone connections, and my local intranet.
So this morning I got two 25 mm MDPE pipes (water and compressed air), a 6 pair telephone cable, and two Cat5e cables pulled into the duct alongside the three phase 415v cable I pulled through a while back - I also left a heavy 'draw rope' in there for future expansion.
This afternoon I went out and collected yet another drum of rather expensive 3 core x 2.5 mm CSA 'Hi-Tuff' cable to wire up more 13 amp double sockets around the periphery of the shed, but I'm held up awaiting a couple of lengths of 4" cable tray as I've decided that the 'girder clips' I'd planned to use are not holding the incoming three phase cable securely enough.
I can't really progress much further until the handedness of the pedestrian door is decided (to place light switches) and the external flood light goes up (to finalise cable runs.
...... finger twiddling time ........
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