Wilderness Road

 These are huge and will need to be buried underground, surrounded by concrete. They need to be filled up with water as the concrete is poured because otherwise the concrete will burst them. Only this top part will be visible from the ground level. The pump will be lowered on chains inside.

 The drilling machine taking out the clay: The drilling machine taking out sand from 10m deep and pumping in concrete at the same time: Reinforcement steel bars going into the pile: This soft ball is used to clean pipes that carry concrete to piles:

34 piles completed so far. We're hoping to finish on Friday 2 Oct. A pile visible in the ground:

Concrete being pumped to the piling machine: Steel reinforcements inserted into a pile:

The very first pile going into the ground:

 

Concrete panels that will be used for erecting the King post retaining wall arrived today. They measure 1.2 metres in height and 2.9 metres in length, and weight 1.28 tonnes each.

The front drive had concrete laid for easier access and a temporary gate has been erected. 

The electric cable arrived, weighting one tonne. Luckily, the delivery driver had a handy machine to offload it! German engineering!

We removed the shrubs next to Moorcroft's House electric kiosk and dug under the hedge to install the new gas connection. This will allow us to divert Moorcroft gas services and remove their gas pipe that runs across our plot.  This pipe is preventing us from piling because it is very near the surface. Unfortunately, having problems with Scottish Gas who refuse to install a new gas meter due to Covid. This is even though SGN engineers are already here, installing the pipe.

 The trench is ready for diverting the gas for Moorcroft House

The manholes and the basement piling have been marked up. Unfortunately, as we later discovered the piling was marked 2.2 metres too far from the boundary and we had to re-mark.

These steel posts will be driven into the ground and used to hold the king post retaining wall on our boundary with Moorcroft House