(NOTE: Each and every image on this page will enlarge if you click on on it).
 22JAN10: Start of the 'flat pack' hut construction |
 31JAN10: Hut with door and some side panels |
 14FEB10: Hut now with sides and roof |
 22FEB10: Hut more or less completed |
06MAR10: Levelling the site for hut foundations |
24MAR10: The spoil heap (borrowed from Caine Hill) |
24APR10: Rosie & Alice Audsley emptying Caine Hill spoil bags |
26APR10: Jeff Price by the almost complete foundation. |
27APR10: Digging hut foundations more or less complete. |
27APR10: General view of the intended location of the digging hut. |
03MAY10: Jeff drilling a boulder by the shaft, Slug checking all is OK. |
 03MAY10: Jeff breaking a boulder - (not posed, see the flying stone dust). |
 03MAY10: The boulder split and ready to be removed |
 03MAY10: Hauling out the boulder |
 03MAY10: Got it! |
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 14MAY10: The hut frame arrives at the dig |
 14MAY10: The framework awaiting cladding. |
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 16MAY10: The completed hut - well almost. |
 16MAY10: Jeff & Slug watch Chris attack the boulder |
 16MAY10: The boulder hauled out of position |
16MAY10: The remains of the boulder |
 30MAY10: Slug digging a hole, supervised by Batspiss. |
 09JUN10: The cleared area at the top of the shaft |
 12JUN10: Tony digging in anti-horsefly kit. |
 15JUN10: Preparing MK II hinges. |
 25JUN10: Les Oxborough working on the shuttering on the top of the shaft. |
 29JUN10: The sheave wheel for the headframe |
 01JUL10: Les Oxborough's shuttering for the top of the shaft |
 01JUL10: "Drip enough on, some is bound to stick" |
 04JUL10: Formwork and concrete on top of the shaft |
 04JUL10: Drainage trench between the shaft and the sump. |
05JUL10: The Mother Of All Brackets |
 05JUL10: Drain pipes roughly in position in the trench |
 08JUL10: The raised and flattened shaft top |
 08JUL10: Alice excavating the drainage chamber |
 08JUL10: Les fiddling with the pipework |
 08JUL10: The grill on top of the shaft; note the hole for the drainage chamber on right. |
 11JUL10: Les grouting the drain cover |
12JUL10: Shaft and the drain cover which defines the lowest point of the collar/apron/whatdoyoucallit? |
 15JUL10: Les and Alice working on the foundation (blinding it) |
 16JUL10: The safety cage with four scaffs as a dummy headframe, with the feet in position |
17JUL10: The first segment of the pad ready for concreting |
 22JUL10: Les shovelling concrete, Alice measuring out the cement. |
22JUL10: The finished section of the PATIO (with drain) |
 24JUL10: Les laying concrete, Alice measuring out the cement |
24JUL10: The 'patio' three fifths completed |
 26JUL10: Slug, measuring out aggregate |
 01AUG10: Tony building the retaining wall. (Photo Ian Gregory) |
 03AUG10: The second course of blocks part completed |
 05:AUG10: The completed wall around the shaft |
 11AUG10: Welding up the tipping skip. |
 21AUG10: The part completed head frame. |
 22AUG10: Phil Romford checking the wheel alignment. |
 28AUG10: The power winch in the engine house. |
 18SEP10: Alice and Les by the headframe |
 19SEP10: Jeff and digging bucket |
 25SEP10: The headframe with traverse and tipping bucket |
 07OCT10: Mike Wilson fixes the concrete mixer |
 21OCT10: Cutting the frame for the shaft doors |
 21OCT10: Testing the shaft door frame for fit |
 22OCT10: The part finished shaft doors |
 28OCT10: The shaft doors (open) |
 28OCT10: The shaft doors (closed) |
 28OCT10: (Labouring the point even further) |
 23DEC10: Home Close Hole in the snow |
Created: 25 November 2008
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