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Previous pictures in the build

Friday 07 September 2001 -
1pm

The scale of the building can be seen with the hoist next to it. It was a delicate process to lift and install each piece of the frame.

Thursday 06 September 2001
12 noon

Each steel is lifted into position and dropped onto the four bolts set into the concrete before being levelled up in all planes. The steels are straight - the curvature is as a result of a very wide-angle lens.

Thursday 06 September 2001
10.30 am

One side completed, a few more to go.

Thursday 06 September 2001
10.00 am

All straight and vertical.

 

Thursday 06 September 2001
9.50 am

Mind your foot!
The steel is dropped slowly onto the bolts in the concrete.

Thursday 06 September 2001
9.48 am

The steel is lowered and guided gently towards the bolts in the concrete.

Friday 24 August 2001 - 9.40am

The four bolts for each vertical steel member are sunk into the concrete below a precise mark and centred. The resultant positioning was within 3mm of true.

Friday 24 August 2001
9.30am

The concrete footings are poured and spread evenly prior to the bolts being placed in exactly the correct position.

Thursday 23 August 2001
2.30pm

Digging the footing begins after the site has been marked out.

Tuesday 14 August 2001 evening

Our leader, Paul, and Sandi celebrating the end of the second day's building - well, destruction anyway. At this rate all should be finished by the end of the week. On that thought a pig was seen flying overhead about the time this picture was taken.

Tuesday 14 August 2001 - noon

"Hello Paul, it's Tommo. We've had the pond liner and the bright purple paint but there's no sign of Charlie Dymock."

Congratulations to Janet Rooth at Universal Lung Ventilators for the caption above.

Monday 13 August 2001
12 noon

Now you see it, now you don't. The case of the missing barn! These guys don't hang about.

Monday 13 August 2001 - 8am

Not exactly the first sod being turned but the site as it stood at 8am looking from the south-east about 100m from the site.