Dumper Truck Won’t Start!
Oh Dear! Our dumper truck “starter” button doesn’t work anymore! It seems that something has disturbed the wiring inside when the last maintenance was done on the truck last week.…
Fourth Row Complete and Fifth Half Done!
We did well today! We had finished off the 4th row left over from Monday, and started the 5th row. We laid down 48½ blocks in two sessions of 23½…
Mini Platform Trolley Mended
We repaired the bent wheels! The front two wheels suffered under the strain of hoisting the concrete blocks! We were (and still are) loading 10 blocks on the trolley (this…
Fourth Row Progresses
We only did half a day of work today, so we did another 22 blocks on our 4th row of the back wall of the swimming lane. We had another…
Battery and Solar Charger Inspected and Fixed
The battery was successfully charged up using the mains charger overnight. But when we tested the solar charger, we discovered that there was only 4volts coming out! Oops! But after…
Fourth Row is Coming
This morning, we finished off the 3rd row (7 more blocks), and then started on the 4th row. The end wall had another set of reinforcing bars placed horizontally and…
Third Row almost complete
We did two loads of the cement mixer today, one bag of cement in total. This allowed us to do a further 39 blocks. 20 this morning and 19 this…
Suspect Problem with Battery
We suspect that there is a problem with the dumper truck’s battery or the charging circuit from the solar panel. We got only 3 starts out of the battery today…
2nd Row Complete and 3rd started
We got the 2nd row done today before lunch, having started at 9am this morning. That was 21½ blocks put down. We split one of the concrete blocks in half,…
Another Half a Wall done
We did only a half day of work today, as we had other commitments in the morning. On Monday, we tried mixing the mortar with 4litres and 50ml of Plasticiser…