Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Stu Lindsay, Jonathan Riley
2.5hrs
New ladder! Stu had attached a bit of wood to the bottom of
the section we retrieved from HLIS. He set to drilling the holes to join that
to the longer section from WP. The rest of us moved the remains of the scaffold
tower to by the greenhouse and then assisted Stu with bolting the sections
together. Long section is in the middle and the shorter WP section at the top.
It was very heavy, but we decided the best way to handle it was for Estelle to
go down the bottom via the old ladder so as to help move that and guide at
points where it was safe to do so! Estelle assisted lifting the bottom of the
old ladder to the right to give space for the new one and the new one was
lowered into place with ropes, while Estelle hid at the entrance to the dig in
case any rocks came down. Once the ladder was on the floor, Estelle guided the
bottom, but it was decided the old one needed to be removed to make it easier
to relocate the new one into the best position. Old ladder removed, new one in
position, needs some work to stabilise the bottom and build up some rocks
around it as it’s above the location where the old one and there’s a hole where
the old one was. The top has been temporarily tied off with ropes as bolts need
to be put in place to secure it with chains, but ran out of light and time (and
weather as it started to rain!) so retreated to the pub.
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