Lectures till 12 today so that set us back a couple of hours initially anyway...
Design and Construction
The two teams continued as they had the previous day, with some based in the workshop and others at the site.
Mindaugus and Pat carried on with cutting out the notches on each individual piece of cladding - by hand! This process is really time consuming and if we had know what the situation was at the site it was have probably been for the best if the majority had stayed there helping with marking out and generally moving the large quantities of timber around the workshop.
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The site was basically at a standstill as we didn’t have the fixings that we needed for the next stage of the construction. The holes couldn’t even be drilled at this point as the drill had run out battery and was on charge...
The lads did find out some interesting information about monkey puzzle trees; first that they are native to Chile - so the area that we are building in is actually the chilean plant section. Also;
- Did you know that monkey puzzle trees are called this as when they were brought across to Britain someone looked at them and said “it would puzzle a monkey to climb those trees!”
- The trees on site are currently flowering, and there are female and male varieties - you can tell this by the spike arrangement at the top of the tree
More building - less chat tomorrow i hope...
When the girls arrived with the shims, bolts and resin it was action stations, or we had hoped - but the drills, 14v just aren’t powerful enough so by the end of Friday we were a little behind on schedule with only the holes drilled for one shoe. We also discovered that the frames were a little large, but they have now been cut down. Lets hope for a more productive day tomorrow.
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Documentation
Some site videos have taken place today, with new backdrops. We are all waiting with bated breath to see what crackers John gets out in the final piece. ‘Johncam’ is getting a little too good, it has become very sneaky - so watch out, John could be about!
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