Illness with a Cold Virus
We had another round with the cold virus, putting Worker Shaun out of action this last week. Worker Stephen was able to carry on with only an occasional assistance to…
The Legs All Painted
We started to paint all the legs yesterday but ran out of paint, after ordering some more of the metal primer paint, we finished painting the last steel legs and…
Final Odd Jobs Completed
Over the last couple of days, We took in the shortest steel I Beams into the workshop where a short piece of the top and bottom flanges, at both ends was…
Final 4 Legs with Pieces Welded On!
This afternoon, we unloaded the 3 heavy legs and loaded the remaining 4 lighter legs onto the trolley and transferred them into the workshop. The Foot plates and Top plates…
3 Big Fat Legs All Completed!
Today, we tackled the heavy duty legs (number 1, 4 and 7), each measuring 160mm by 80mm by 5.4metres tall and with a wall thickness is 8mm!! (Each weighs about…
Brackets Painted and Preparations starts on Legs
The 6 steel brackets were hung up in our painting tent this morning and painted this afternoon. Plus also the preparations for making the Steel Legs, all 7 of them,…
Ridge and Valley Support’s Construction Completed
The task of the last two weeks (interrupted by a bought of illness), has been to cut and weld together pieces of 3mm thick steel plates into brackets. These are…