Build Week 1, 4th Feb 2019
The Project schedule has been set out into 14 Build Weeks. These Build Weeks are spread between February 2019 through to the end of September 2019. This week sees the first of these Build Weeks get underway and our first opportunity as a Project Team to get together since our induction back in the New Year.
So here is the Plan…
And here are some of the tools we will be using…
The objective for week 1 is to coalesce the team, be trained in site safety, safe use of the tools and safe materials handling. With that underway we can then begin to practice and develop skills in the use of our tools by starting the task of preparing the timbers that have been gathered and brought to site.
This will involve
- establishing the work areas,
- making tools like mauls and mallets
- hafting the bronze axes, adzes and chisels onto the handles we make
- making a legion of wooden wedges
- in order to split logs to begin making work benches,
- and peeling the bark and outer cambium layers off of the construction timber starting with the roof and wall posts.
Our first go at splitting using wooden wedges
And it continues
We’re nealy there
Well done guys, good effort. Have a short breather… Thing is, I didn’t mean for you to split this log. I meant the other one!
Start of Day 2, view of the site
Using a Bronze Adze to help remove the outer layers of a log. Right tool for the job?
Edwin Wood making a Mallet
Start of Day 3, view of site
We’ve got a sign, so we must be a tourist attraction now.
When you thought you had done, there is always more to do. More splitting of logs.
Until we really understand what we are doing and how we are going to work, there seems to be a lot of moving stuff around. Moving from being in the way here to being in the way over there!
On Day 5, an inevitable winter storm blew its way in and the high winds meant that Beeston Castle had to remain closed. So no work done that day.
Last modified on 2019-02-09