Today was a big day for the Hazelnut Inn project. The first four prefabricated pieces was craned into place. The large assemblies were hooked up, one by one and gently lifted into place. John Wishlow, our favourite crane guy, was awesome at the controls of his rig. Slow and steady ruled the day. As each piece settled into it's place we made sure everything was level and then welded or bolted it into place. There was a lot of cutting and fitting of braces and welding to make things secure and permanent. The four pieces took about six and a half hours to install. Everything went in without a scratch. It was an uplifting day!
Six weeks to the workshop!
The Sculpting Magic workshop is now only six weeks distant. We are hearing lots of excitement from those signed up. When we aren't busy with some project in the shop we sneak time away to work on preparations for the workshop. We'll be doing all different projects this go around and the format will be different as well. The theme of the workshop will be 'TELLING A STORY VISUALLY'.
The elephants go marching two by two...
The first crane lift for the Hazelnut Inn is now only two days away and the scramble is on to get as many pieces ready as possible. Peter and I shingled the power tower roof and cut the pieces for the cap. We glued the pieces together this evening and we will sculpt and paint the finished cap tomorrow. We also did the final design of the weathervane for the top and in a couple of hours we had the pieces welded together and ready to paint.
