9th March 2010
These lads do not waste any time so it will not be long till the battlements will be added.
Here is the back of the wall and up to half of what you can see will be beneath the walkway and embankment. With the drainage system and the retaining wall this wall will here for quite a few hundreds years to come.
Hard at work these two lads are doing a terrific job.
When the company who are re-building the wall came and checked what had to be done, they were amazed at one of their findings. Now remember the original wall was built hundreds of years ago, the company checked how level the wall had been by checking from one end of the original wall to the other end wall and it was only out by 3mm!!
-------
29th March 2010
I told you these lads did not hang around now the battlements are going on.
The only thing that stops them is the rain, not that they can't work in the rain, you can't build the wall in the rain.
Here the forklift is placing a battlement stone on the wall.
Kevin Campbell, Sean Robinson, David Watt, Jeffery Mcconnell, Mick Bloomer, Brendan Cunningham and Denver Watt.
Now it is sheer brute strength to remove the supports and move it into place.
Nearly finished and as good as ever. No wonder I am getting the thumbs up from one of the lads.
Here are the lads that have been doing a great job and highly skilled work, well done.
From the left we have Kevin Campbell, Sean Robinson, David Watt, Jeffery Mcconnell, Mick Bloomer, Brendan Cunningham and Denver Watt.