Earth Tubes – Day 6 (Finished Digging the HOLE)
The Hole Is Dug! The garden looks like a Desert with sand dunes in every direction! The machinery are blocked in and cannot get out onto our Loke! Day 6…
Earth Tubes Plan B – Day 5
The growing and unstoppable hole continues .. .. We are nearly there! Does anyone want some nice soft sand? Going cheap! Just bring your own 20ton lorry! Day 5 –…
Earth Tubes Plan B – Day 4
With the newly energised Dumper Truck (the battery is now fully charged!) Stephen dashed out to do as possible before the forecasted heavy rain comes!! guess What? No Rain! Stephen…
Earth Tubes Plan B Day 2 and 3
Stephen is working hard in digging the Great Hole! It is a case of doing a few hours in between rain showers and sometimes heavy ones!! But also tackling man…
Dumper Truck is down in the Dumps #2
Yippeee! We managed to jump start the dumper truck! We tipped the load and drove it back to the house to connect the battery charger! Phew! That is a great…
Dumper is down in the Dumps!
OH GEE WIZ! Our truck is broken! The starter motor is making a horrible crunching noise! Oh Blimey! We phoned our cousin for his expert opinion and listening via our…
Earth Tubes Design Conclusion!
We have finally settled on a design of connecting up all the earth tubes and getting the air in and out of them! We have 12 tubes all together, each…
Earth Tubes Plan B Day 1
We started digging for gold today! The 4.2m wide (over 13 feet) by 18m long (59feet) hole is quite big with a spur (like a capital L) spur for another…
Indoor Jobs – Wet Weather
Today we were working indoors to get out of the wet weather. We tidied up the workshop and re-assembled an old work bench. It is 12 feet long and 3…
Roof Repair!
We decided to repair our temporary storage come accommodation’s roof. The wooden building is over 8 years old so the original roofing felt is cracking up! We had the job…