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New Tractor Shed
awemawson:
Today we started laying the Aco storm drain on a bed of concrete - ran out of balllast so play resumes tomorrow, Also exposed the land drain connection that we will be Teeing into and inserted a swept Tee joint ready for the storm drain.
I also today connected up the compressed air having made up a support for it's termination. The air plumbing is grafted onto that already in the Woodwork Shop where I'd left a blanked off Tee 'just in case' a couple of years back. It runs round the Woodwork Shed at ceiling height then plunges down to the 110 mm drain conduit leading to the Tractor Shed. I put an isolator valve in the line for future diagnostic purposes. In the tractor shed the airline emerges from the 110 mm drain duct at floor level and rises to a 'wall plate elbow; then via a ball valve to a PCL Q/D fitting. I will in due time fit a pressure gauge at this point just as a reassurance measure as the compressor is a very long way away !
awemawson:
No Darren today - no idea why - so I got on pulling pipes and cables through the duct that runs under the tractor shed floor, and outside to a manhole that I'm using as a marshalling point for water (to the pigs and chicken) - three phase 415v (for my external distribution point) and a pair of Cat5E cables (just in case!)
It was a bit like the problem of getting a troop of boy scouts across a river in the least number of moves with only a two seater canoe :clap:
I needed three draw ropes in the duct (water pipe / mains cable / Cat5E cables) but also wanted a fourth one left in situ for future use. First I pushed my excellent cable pulling rodding gizmo from the outside manhole up into the tractor shed. Then I pulled back three draw ropes with it.
Dead easy to tangle multiple draw ropes doing this, so I lay them out first rather than leave them coiled.
awemawson:
Then I attached the 25 mm MDPE water pipe to one draw rope by drilling a hole in the pipe, and secured the other draw ropes so they weren't accidentally pulled as well.
25 mm pipe has a life of it's own when uncoiled :bugeye:
Once pulled through I made it off to the existing stop cock in the man hole, and also completed the link loop from the Woodwork Shop into the Tractor Shed, and completed the connection in the Woodwork Shop where the water is sourced.
All a bit tight working down a man hole - no room to wield a spanner but I got there in the end.
awemawson:
Then it was the turn of the 415V mains cable - heavy old reel and very stiff cable however it went fairly easily as far as the man hole. But onwards in the narrower 3" duct to the distribution point was a right b*****r needing much pulling and pushing and coaxing and cajoling. Eventually I got it through but had to leave an annoying kink in the man hole between it's entry port and it's exit port.
awemawson:
By comparison the CAT5E was a doddle and behaved itself nicely. But by this time I was knackered so not many pictures.
So in summary - the water connections are finished, but the ends of the mains and CAT5e cables are as yet unterminated - a job for tomorrow - especially the external distribution box as it started to drizzle quite heavily when I was pulling the data cables so my motivation decreased somewhat to be outside !
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