by Neil Wilkinson | Aug 24, 2008 | Allotment
Went to the plot fairly early this morning (early for us) around 11. It was the day of the big show, we helped out for a few hours, running the ‘bucket of fun stall’ (throwing ping pong balls into some holes – ridiculously hard when its windy!) then started on the fence. Pilla took the nails out, I cut the lengths, we both lined them up – now that’s team work.
Got a lot done considering we only did it for an hour or two:
Few cross pieces to finish tomorrow. Maybe some of the pickets too.
Also built a pallet-gate. Its the staple of a plot. You NEED a gate made from a pallet. Handily one of the pallets perfectly fitted the gap we’d left:
I put the hinges on with nails recovered form the floor boards, good recycling.
After the battery died on the drill we went for a ‘quick’ drink at the aftershow party. After lots of drink and food we rolled home around half 9. Sunburnt, blistered, tired, but happy 🙂
by Neil Wilkinson | Aug 23, 2008 | Allotment
Today was our first real day doing stuff. It was a looong day. We managed to whack in 17 fence poles in a semi-straight fashion (there’s only a slight kink – not bad for a first go!)
So now it looks like this:
This is pilla beautifully modelling the new fence. It’s very stylish:
So tomorrow we build the rails that go between them and maybe the pickets. We need to figure out a way to borrow someone electricty though.
I also now sport one great big blister – hopefully that should be it for hard work for a while.
Tomorrow’s jobs:
Cut, sand and install rails.
Cut and maybe sand pickets.
Chop the top off the fence posts to make them even.
Celebrate our sucess with a beer 🙂
by Neil Wilkinson | Aug 18, 2008 | Allotment
Few more from our first visit:
This is my rubbish attempt to show what we are going to do:
Picture of our plans laid out using tried and trusted cut out pieces of graph paper:
We now have some fence poles, first job is to whack those in and enclose the site. We probably need to speak to our neighbours too – as you can see their fence is made of proped up pallets. We might sort that out for them.
So, jobs for the first weekend:
1. Sign up officially (we still havn’t done that), this’ll give us a key and mean we don’t have to sneak around
2. Hammer in the fence poles
3. Attach rails (which I need to make out of the floorboards on the right of the picture)
4. Attach other bits to make the fence look pretty
5. Paint the fence
And if we get half of that done i’ll be happy 🙂
by Neil Wilkinson | Aug 17, 2008 | Allotment
.And this is it. We could probably have done better.
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