With a clear blue sky and the temperature over 20 degrees it wasn't the day to be working, but like a lot of volunteers in other departments, we were keen to make progress 😇
Only 2 jobs tackled, first off we lodged Roger in excavation 4 with a pile of bricks and his packed lunch and left him to it.
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| Start Point - Excavation 4 |
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| Alastair back in action on the mixer |
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| The bricks arrive |
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| Roger in his element (Photo: Alastair) |
The other job was to continue the search for the hidden gully drain under Bridge 11. A straight forward little task one would think, just stick the rods in the outlet an Bob's you uncle!.
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| Root saw, sawing clay 😟 |
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| Small screw, more clay |
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| CCTV out again |
After clearing most of the clay at 2 metres in, progress stopped at another block 4m in, so the CCTV was called in again...
The void at 4m calls for intervention therapy, so we dig in to see what the problem is.
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| Stuart breaks the surface with the long spade (Photo: Alastair) |
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| If all else fails, scoop the clay out by hand (Photo: Alastair) |
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| Area of collapsed pipe |
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| Solid clay in the pipe going towards the bridge |
When Roger eventually surfaced, he had almost run out of the 100 bricks we brought up this morning.
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| Excavation 4, end of day |
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| Thorn in the side (or tyre) |
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