Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Rammed earth wall - day 4

Nick, Stelios and I are staying at the hostel of mum and dad this week - thank you mum and dad. Stelios has joined Nick this evening for football.

This morning an 8am start, but only to supervise the scaffolding and lift set up. It all looks really impressive now. So ... a bit of hanging about and then work on the wall recommenced after lunch. Everything working really well.


Accidentally took B&W pics here! We have 2 different heaps of earth. 1 very yellowy from a new estate being built in north Cambridge (Orchard Park) and another quite brown earth from a new development just south of Cambridge (Trumpington) - the two are blended in the mixer and then water sprayed in until the moisture is just right. The mix is emptied into buckets and off it goes to the wall ...



Here's scaffolding and the bucket lift being fitted.

 Stelios ramming. We're must be a bit over 2 metres now - just 3 more to go. Final pic is looking down on the rammed earth:

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