It’s not every day that we get to roll a gigantic stone elephant head down the main street of Yarrow but today was that day. It was the day to lift three more pieces of the Hazelnut Inn into place. The giant sleeping head was moved to the next door property on the back of the crane truck. The tower roof fit on the sidewalk as the crew wheeled it next door. The elephant head was a slow moving parade pushed by the forklift. :) Thanks to John, from Wishlow Crane Service, a very smooth operator, all three pieces were lifted and placed perfectly. It won’t be long until the next batch of even bigger pieces are ready to go!
Shore enough
The construction crew are busy these days building many strong walls and floors inside the foundations of the Hazelnut Inn suites. These walls and floors are called shoring and are temporary. The 2'“ x 6” walls are only four feet apart and the 2” x 10” joists are 12” on center with 3/4” thick plywood on top. They are designed to hold up the suspended concrete slabs as we cast them and will stay in place for 28 days until the concrete has cured enough to support itself. There is no such thing as too strong in this kind of construction, for not strong enough would be catastrophic.
Awesome crew!
We have the most marvellous crew to help us with our work. Today I was out of the office for most of the day. Peter was also busy for most of the day. With only minimal art direction the crew was left to do the sculpting of the treehouse base. As per our expectations they did a FABULOUS JOB! I was most pleased when I went out to the shop late this evening to see how things had turned out. The treehouse looked wonderful!
